Bhopal: Union Carbide Poisonous Gas Leak Investigation Commission has invited information pertaining to the gas leak which occurred in December 1984.

More than 200 survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal on Tuesday set fire to an effigy of ‘Corruption in medical care, rehabilitation and compensation disbursement’ in front of the Union

The Maharashtra government has filed an intervention appeal before the Jabalpur Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court against its order of July 12 to incinerate toxic waste from the former Union C

An indifferent parent, dithering states and a lethargic Centre have allowed Union Carbide’s deadly waste to poison the soil and groundwater in Bhopal Oliver Twist would feel for the 350 million tonnes of toxic chemicals still sitting inside the defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal.

The Supreme Court judgment dismissing the curative petitions against its verdict in the Bhopal gas criminal case leaves observers nonplussed.

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Bhopal gas victims

Tons of toxic wastes strewn in and around Union Carbide factory ever since the happening of industrial disaster can be disposed of by the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO). It is believed that the Organisation can easily destroy the waste materials without posing any threat to environment.

Several NGOs working for the cause of the Bhopal gas victims on Wednesday called for immediate scrapping of the recommendations of the Peer Review Committee set up for remediation of toxic contamination in and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory in the state capital and demanded reconstitution of this committee to ensure that there were no members in this panel with conflict of interests.

More than two decades after the gas leak in Bhopal, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has reported a higher incidence of cancer in affected areas