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the pleas of the 50 survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, who reached Delhi on March 28, are far from being heard. Travelling over 800 km on foot, they came to the capital to remind the prime

MPCB"s new consent conditions

• Dow to issue an undertaking that it would not use any chemicals banned by the Indian government

• Install three ambient air quality monitoring stations

Even as interested parties have approached the Supreme Court for clarification on its orders on shipbreaking safety norms, 88 ships have illegally beached at Alang in Gujarat without prior decontamination or requisite safety certificates. The court, in its order in September 2007, had ordered that all ships being beached in India should compulsorily carry the "Certificates for Gas Free for Hot Work'.

The UPA government, it seems, has moved to implement a proposal backed by several key ministers, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and the Prime Minister's Office that Dow Chemicals' business be facilitated in India even while the government pursues a case against it in the Bhopal gas disaster.

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The parents of the toxic industrial waste's victims have moved the Sindh High Court to annul a district and sessions' court order on March 26 that acquitted a factory owner and others in a case pertaining to dumping of highly toxic industrial waste in an open area in Site Town, which claimed the lives of two children and caused injuries to 15 others.

THE Madras High Court has restrained Sri Padma Chemicals Private Limited in Choonambedu village in Kancheepuram district from dumping its chemical waste on the lands outside the factory premises. The First Bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice Prabha Sridevan gave the direction on Friday last, while passing interim orders on a public interest writ petition from K Umanath of Thothacherry village. The bench also ordered notice to the authorities concerned returnable by June 9, 2008.