BHOPAL: Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have written to Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily requesting him to place some of their demands requiring urgent attention before the reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM).
NEW DELHI: The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, which was asked by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to report back to the Cabinet by June 24, will meet on Friday and again on Saturday with the object of wrapping up its work as expeditiously as possible, government sources said.
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.
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
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.
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.
