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Pharmaceutical companies Quintiles and Sanofi have failed to follow norms while conducting clinical trials of their new drugs on Bhopal gas leak survivors, the health ministry informed the Supreme Court.

During hearings on alleged flouting of norms by pharmaceutical majors in conducting clinical trials on humans, the court had ordered the health ministry not to proceed with the clinical trials of 157 new drugs/formulations till a stricter regime was put in place.

Just days before the 29th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster of 1984, news came last Friday that no hearing took place at the Supreme Court on a curative petition filed by the central governmen

The second-, third-generation survivors continue to suffer the effects of the toxic leak

Survivors of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy this week held a sit-in at the city’s Lower Lake to mark the incident’s 19th anniversary.NGO Chingari provides the second- and third-generation children with special education and therapy. These children, who suffer ailments such as cerebral palsy, impairments of speech and hearing, epilepsy, heart diseases and others, were accompanied at the protest by parents and grandparents who survived the poisonous gas leak from Union Carbide factory here in 1984.

It was on the night of Dec 2-3, 1984, that a toxic gas leak from the Union Carbide Corporation's pesticide plant in the Madhya Pradesh capital killed and maimed thousands of people.

About Rs 4 crore earmarked for safe disposal of toxic waste lying at Union Carbide site in Bhopal was not utilised by Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB), an audit report has said.

WARSAW: Sensing that government alone won't be able to usher in climate change breakthroughs, the UN climate bodies on Tuesday launched a first-of-its kind-platform, where chief executives of major

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) director general Dr VM Katoch will release second technical report of National Institute for Research in Environmental Health (NIREH) here on Friday.

Three decades after the gas leak disaster, the abandoned Union Carbide plant still continues to pose a serious threat to the people of Bhopal as almost every study done so far to measure the impact

CSE has analysed all major studies on impact of the waste dumped within & outside the Union Carbide site, concluded that there is large-scale contamination in the soil & water of the area and released this action plan for ridding the site of contamination in five years.

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