KANPUR: Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) director RD Goyal visited the company's plant in Auraiya on Sunday and ordered a probe into the fire that broke out at the plant on Saturday.

A senior official of GAIL was killed while three others sustained serious burns when the fire broke out at the GAIL plant in Dibiyapur in Auraiya, about 200-km from the state capital.

A committee has been c

Renuka Bisht

When the Bhopal Court finally gave out convictions for the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy on June 7 this year, the judgement attracted such a public outcry that the government

The Supreme Court today decided to review its 1996 judgement in the Bhopal gas case, following which a local court had imposed a two-year jail sentence on Keshub Mahindra and six others who were executives of Union Carbide at the time of the tragedy.

Krishnadas Rajagopal

New Delhi: Fourteen years after it described the Bhopal gas leak disaster as an act of negligence, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to re-open its September 1996 judgement, a rarest-of-rare step, to assess if the criminal liability of Union Carbide employees extended to culpable homicide.

A Special Bench of Chief Justice SH Kapadia and his two seniormost colleagues in

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To avert disasters like the Bhopal gas leak, the environment ministry is preparing off-site emergency plans for hazardous units in 41 selected industrial pockets such as Gurgaon, Coimbatore, Bharatpur and Panipat.

Leading mining group Vedanta Resources has been stripped of international safety awards amid claims that it won the prize without declaring that a chimney collapse at one of its sites had killed at least 40 workers last year, according to a media report.

Awards to Vedanta have been withdrawn by the British Safety Council (BSC) in response to findings thrown up by a broader analysis of deaths of

Vandita Mishra

Washington: The United States said on Friday the Bhopal gas tragedy was a closed case now.

State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley was answering reporters' questions on the issue. Later, the State Department official clarified that legally the case was closed.

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