Environment

Some lessons from the Bhopal outcome

V.R. Krishna Iyer

The court verdict shows that India is still in a Victorian imperial-feudal era, distances away from the socialist dream.

The political parties that were in power during these years are guilty of culpable neglect

One extraordinary feature of the outcome is that the highest officer who was involved in Union Carbide, Warren Anderson, is nowhere in the picture

Publication Date: 
14/06/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Environment, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Court, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (T), Hindu (New Delhi)
Environment

New ray of hope for gas victims

There is renewed hope for the gas victims as people across the country have become one with their cause and are expressing outrage over denial of justice and the manoeuvres of those in authority in Bhopal who had allowed the then Union Carbide Corporation chief Warren Anderson to escape to America when the city was struck by the worst industrial catastrophe in December 1984.

Publication Date: 
14/06/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Environment, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Court, Supreme Court, Politics, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (T), Asian Age (New Delhi)
Environment

Centre couldnt have been in dark on Anderson, said an LS panel in 2003

Pradeep Kausal

Publication Date: 
14/06/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Environment, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Court, Politics, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (T), Financial Express (New Delhi)
Environment

MP govt seeks legal opinion on reinvestigation

New Delhi: Amid the controversies surrounding the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict, the Madhya Pradesh Government is taking legal opinion on whether it can re-investigate the whole case, including the exit of the then Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson.

It is also considering the possibility of filing a review petition against dilution of charges against convicts in the gas leak case.

Publication Date: 
14/06/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Environment, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Court, Politics, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (T), Financial Express (New Delhi)
Hazardous Waste

In 2003, LS panel said Centre couldnt have been in the dark on Anderson

Pradeep Kaushal

Publication Date: 
14/06/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Hazardous Waste, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (D), Indian Express (New Delhi)
Hazardous Waste

Bhopal gas tragedy: Centre ''should submit'' curative plea

A non-government organisation working for victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy today felt that the Centre should submit a curative petition to the Supreme Court for ensuring appropriate punishment for the guilty and justice for victims in the criminal case relating to the world's worst industrial disaster.

Publication Date: 
14/06/2010
Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
Tags:
Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Supreme Court, NGO, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (D), Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
Environment

Dishonesty, fraud, breach of trust

IN the first official response from the Gov ernment on the Warren Anderson issue Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee ha put the onus squarely on former Madhy Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh.

Publication Date: 
14/06/2010
New Indian Express (Chennai)
Tags:
Environment, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Court, Politics, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (T), New Indian Express (Chennai)
Environment

Chronic denial of justice

Anxiously aiting outside the court of the chief judicial
magistrate Mohan M Tiwari in Bhopal on 7 June, 36-year
old Raghu Jaidev and many other victims of the Bhopal
catastrophe were crestfallen, some of them,outraged,upon hearing
the outcome of the trial that had dragged on for almost two decades. (Editorial)

Publication Date: 
12/06/2010
Economic and Political Weekly
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Health Effects, Environment, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Methyl Isocyanate (MIC), Poverty, Union Carbide, Court, Supreme Court, Government Of India (GOI), India, Madhya Pradesh, Economic and Political Weekly, Industrial Disasters
Hazardous Waste

Lessons from Bhopal

Anatomy of a continuing tragedy
by Maj-Gen Pushpendra Singh (retd)

Victims protesting against the Bhopal judgement

Publication Date: 
11/06/2010
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Court, Political Parties, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (D), Tribune (New Delhi)
Environment

Congress faces flak on Bhopal gas leak verdict

The Congress today found itself hemmed in by attacks from within and outside with its leaders blaming the then party governments at the Centre and Madhya Pradesh over the escape of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson after the gas leak in December 1984.

Publication Date: 
11/06/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Environment, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Politics, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (T), Business Standard (New Delhi)

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