India will pay an extra 713 million rupees ($15.8 million) in compensation to the victims of the world's worst industrial accident that killed thousands in 1984, the government said in a statement late on Thursday.

India says about 3,500 people died when a Union Carbide plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal accidentally released toxic gases into the air, but activists say 25,000 died in th

Soon after the Bhopal gas disaster in December 1984, efforts were made to suppress research reports to dilute the magnitude of the incident, claims a doctor who was posted as a child specialist at a state-run hospital here when the tragedy occurred.
In his latest book, '25 years of Gas Tragedy and untold truth', Dr NR Bhandari has said that the real problems of the gas victims were suppressed by

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The Supreme Court has issued notices to the respondent Union ministry of chemicals and fertilisers and welfare commissioner, Bhopal, in a petition filed earlier in March 2010 by Bhopal NGOs regarding the death and injury claims arising out of the Bhopal gas disaster.

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