In the Bhopal Gas Tragedy case, the Supreme Court should set up a direct special court and hold day-to-day trial without any adjournment, similar to the exclusive court set up for the 2-G spectrum scam accused, said Abdul Jabbar of the Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS) here on Thursday.

Speaking to mediapersons, Jabbar said like the 2G-Spectrum scam, the Supreme Court should re

CBI admits to delay in moving court after a SC bench had diluted the charges against the accused in 1996
The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation why there was a delay of over 14 years in approaching it for rectification of its judgement which had diluted the charges against the accused in 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.

New Delhi: The Union government on Wednesday confessed that it had slept over the Supreme Court

New Delhi: Ahead of the crucial hearing on Wednesday on curative petitions seeking stringent charges in the Bhopal gas tragedy case and additional compensation for victims, a plea before the SC could prove embarrassing for the government.

For, it requests SC to ask the government to divulge names of officials who negotiated with Union Carbide and arrived at a court supervised $470 million s

A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear the Centre

With hardly a week left for the Supreme Court to commence hearing on the CBI

The question of where to dispose the toxic waste lying at the defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal has come to haunt the government again. Yielding to public pressure, the government has finally decided not to dump the remaining 347 tonnes of waste at a disposal facility in Pithampur near Indore.

A day after a Delhi court accepted the CBI request seeking extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) chairman Warren Anderson

CBI's seeking extradition of 90-year-old former Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation Warren Anderson in connection with Bhopal Gas tragedy case may have come too late, according to leading lawyers.
Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan said "the agency (CBI) was sleeping" over the years.

He, however, described the Delhi court's order allowing CBI to seek Anderson's extradition as "an exceptional"

A high-powered committee today asked the Madhya Pradesh government to release compensation to those victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy who are yet to receive any money from the government.

The group of ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas disaster, chaired by home minister P Chidambaram, also gave its in-principle approval for construction of a memorial at the disaster site if no toxic materia

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