The Bhopal gas tragedy was the worst industrial disaster in human history. Twenty-five thousand people died, 500,000 were injured, and the injustice done to the victims of Bhopal over the past 25 years will go down as the worst case of jurisprudence ever.

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.

Sanat Kaul

Oversight Committee To Monitor Waste Disposal Activities At Union Carbide Factory

A month after a trial court convicted him in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, the then non-executive chairman of the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) Keshub Mahindra has said he is not guilty.

Twenty-six years after the world's worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, India has a new National Green Tribunal Act, for

Five convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy case including industrialist and former Chairman of Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) Keshub Mahindra today furnished bail bonds of Rs 1 lakh each in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) here.
The documents were submitted by the convicts on the earlier directives of District and Sessions Judge Subhash Kakde at the CJM court.