Deadline for disposing UCIL waste THE Madhya Pradesh High Court on December 16 issued fresh directions to dispose the toxic waste lying at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. The waste is to be incinerated at the waste treatment site in Ankleshwar industrial area of Gujarat. The court directed the Gujarat government to dispose the hazardous waste by January 31, 2009. The waste has been

By Our Staff Reporter
Bhopal, Jan 21: Madhya Pradesh Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Babulal Gaur today urged the Centre to sanction the proposed Rs 985.75 crore for social, economical and medical rehabilitation for Bhopal gas tragedy victims.

In October activists of the International Campaign for Justice for Bhopal issued an advertisement in the brochures of the India Chem exhibition. But the advert was issued in the name of Clean Chemistry Council, a fictitious European public relations firm, offering consultancy to corporations for improving their public image. The ad cited Dow Chemical as a pioneer in charity

The present application for intervention arises from Writ Petition No.2802/2004 titled Alok Pratap Singh versus UOI and Ors pending before the Hon'ble Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur wherein vide order-dated 23.06.2005 the Applicant was invited to intervene in the said Writ Petition by the Hon'ble High Court, in order to assist the court in the present matter.

Zubeda Hamid |Chennai
We appeal to you not associate with a company that has still not provided justice to the thousands affected in Bhopal
A group of children from Bhopal, suffering from disablities caused gas leak from Union Carbide in 1984, have appealed to a private trust here to disassociate itself from Dow Chemicals, which now owns the firm.

Latha Jishnu / New Delhi December 06, 2008, 0:21 IST
India's worst terrorist attack occurred not in Mumbai last month, but in Bhopal 24 years ago - and it's the kind of carnage that goes unheeded.

Activists of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal played a prank at the chemical export exhibition India Chem to expose the dealings of Dow Chemicals. The activists issued an advertisement in the brochures of the exhibition in the name of Clean Chemistry Council, a fictitious European public relations firm, offering consultancy to corporations for improving their public image

BY LALIT K. JHA
NEW YORK

The lawsuit was filed in 2004 by a group of people who live in the vicin- ity of the pesticide plant in Bhopal
A New York court has reinstated a case filed against Union Carbide by residents of Bhopal who claim to have suffered serious health problems due to a gas leak from the company

This study was conducted to assess the safety with special reference to the acute toxicity, if any of siz samples (Excavated waste, Lime sludge, Naphthol tar (nor Napthol tar), Reactor residue, Semi processed pesticide and Sevin tar) collected from `Stored Toxic Wastes at the former UCIL Plant Site at Bhopal'.

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