Priscilla Jebaraj

NEW DELHI: Union Carbide's Bhopal plant was a polluter long before the 1984 gas leak, according to scientific reports presented to the Group of Ministers looking into the issue.

These differently-abled children at JP Nagar in Bhopal, Vikas Yadav (11) and Aman Yadav (9), had to suffer the consequences of India

Smita Gupta

New Delhi: A road map to address the legal, medical, humanitarian, environmental and other aspects of the Bhopal gas leak disaster was presented on Monday by the Group of Ministers (GoM) to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He has called a special Cabinet meeting for June 25 to discuss the report.

President Barack Obama acted with determination and purpose in holding BP accountable in the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, forcing the petroleum company to commit $20 billion to an escrow account (with no cap) that would contribute toward meeting clean-up costs and providing compensation.

Mahim Pratap Singh

BHOPAL: The report on the Bhopal gas leak submitted by the Group of Ministers (GoM) to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday drew mixed reactions from survivors' organisations here, which have decided to write to him to allow them a hearing at a Cabinet meet to be held on Friday.

Bhopal: Aqueel Ahmed (29), a gas victim and resident of Govindpura, has damaged kidneys and requires dialysis thrice a week. He claimed the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC), which is supposed to provide medical treatment free of cost to gas victims, has refused medication.

Advice To Replace Leaking Pipes Ignored
Dhananjay Mahapatra | TNN

New Delhi: In what could be a callous criminal cost-cutting measure, the Union Carbide management had apparently brushed aside warnings about leaking pipes in the Bhopal plant needing urgent replacement and told the staff to keep the factory running by welding the damaged ones.

Swaraj Thapa , Maneesh Chhibber

Jun 22nd, 2010 -- LALIT SHASTRI |

The NGOs working for the cause of the gas victims have expressed serious reservations about the recommendations of the Group of Ministers on various issues linked with Bhopal gas tragedy that include enhanced compensation to the gas victims and the families of those killed in the worst industrial catastrophe that hit Bhopal in December 1984.

Jun 22nd, 2010 -- Rashme Sehgal |

A section of senior Madhya Pradesh bureaucrats along with several NGOs believe the solution to the outstanding issue of toxic waste from the Union Carbides factory in Bhopal is to send it back to the United States. They cite the precedent of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) having ordered Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL)