Bhopal: MP Congress Committee spokesman Arif Masood said that in the meeting of union group of ministers to be held in Delhi on June 18 priority should be given to the compensation to be given to gas victims. The family of the deceased in gas tragedy should be given Rs 10 lakh as compensation and those affected by gas tragedy should be given Rs 5 lakh as compensation.

The alacrity shown by the government in setting up a Group of Ministers (GoM) to look into all issues of the Bhopal gas tragedy - including adequacy of compensation - was clearly missing just three years ago when the UPA government opposed tooth and nail any enhancement of payment to the sufferers.

What is sorely missing is the political will to get to the truth behind such tragedies, says ERVELL E MENEZES

Warren M. Anderson

New Delhi: Comments by key players in the aftermath of the Bhopal gas tragedy give an indication of the exit of the then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson from India.

A TV channel reproduced the bytes of Mr. Anderson and the then Chief Minister Arjun Singh before the former left the country on December 7, 1984, three days after the world's worst industrial disaster.

Smita Gupta

NEW DELHI: The allegation that the Rajiv Gandhi government had succumbed to U.S. pressure and allowed the former Union Carbide chairman, Warren Anderson, to escape from the country was

Jyoti Punwani

New Delhi: Reeling under the blowback of the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict, the government on Tuesday withdrew a set of

Narayan Lakshman

Washington: Dow Chemical Company, which owns the erstwhile Union Carbide Company that was behind the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, might have systematically sought to pre-empt the judicial outcome of the case by putting pressure on officials at the Indian embassy in Washington, it has emerged.

Two days after Chief Minister Narendra Modi embarrassed UPA chief Sonia Gandhi over the 1984 Union Carbide leak incident, the BJP and Opposition Congress here engaged in a slanging match over US company Dow Chemicals

Mahim Pratap Singh

Bhopal: Whether it was bureaucratic callousness or political cover-up, the fact that the only comprehensive survey of Bhopal gas victims ever to be undertaken has yet to see the light of day 25 years later is likely to add to the controversy surrounding the disaster.