Facing protests over a plan to incinerate toxic waste of Union Carbide plant in Bhopal at a disposal unit at Pithampur, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has assured villagers that a study will be conducted and locals taken into confidence before a final view is taken.

Facing protests over a plan to incinerate toxic waste of Union Carbide plant in Bhopal at a disposal unit at Pithampur, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has assured villagers that a study will be conducted and locals taken into confidence before a final view is taken.

The contamination of soil and groundwater at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal has nothing to do with the 1984 gas leak disaster, according to a study released on Thursday by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute. Instead, the toxic wastes were dumped over a much longer period between 1969 and 1984.

India at the two-year sentence given to 86-year-old Keshub Mahindra, a respected industrialist, in the Bhopal gas leak case. Mahindra was chairman of Union Carbide when it happened and there has been a movement of sorts at the apex of Indian industry to get him off.

Union Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh will visit Bhopal on July 9. Ramesh will meet Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on July 9.

S. K. Lohia, an officer of the level of Secretary in the Union Ministry of Urban Development expressed pleasure over the progress of work on the BRTS Corridor that runs through the middle of state capital. This corridor which goes through the city for 22 kilometers is the longest corridor of the country.

Bhopal: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), conducted a Sensitization workshop at St. Joseph's Convent Senior Secondary School Idgah hills.

Kumkum Sen / July 05, 2010, 0:42 IST

Speculations on government response have been put to rest with the outcome of the deliberations and discussions of the GoM. A case has been made out for enhancement of the compensation based on the degree of severity ranging from death, permanent disability, cancer cases, renal failure to temporary disability on a scale of Rs ten to one lakh.

Keshub MahindraThe sessions court here today granted conditional bail to former Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) chairman Keshub Mahindra who was convicted in the 1984 Bhopal gas leak case.

The court, however, reserved its order on the bail application of six other UCIL executives who were also convicted in the case last month.

Critical issues concerning environment and liability in the gas tragedy have evaded a solution

Why was there so much public and media outrage over the Bhopal disaster