Members of the reconstituted Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas leak disaster today favoured enhanced compensation as one of the key ingredients of a healing touch package but agreed to take it up along with all other issues in back-to-back meetings over the weekend before finalising its report on Monday.

NEW DELHI: Warren Anderson had met Foreign Secretary M.K. Rasgotra in New Delhi at his South Block office before he flew out of the country the same night, the retired official has confirmed in a television interview. Anderson had come alone, and the meeting lasted 20 minutes or so.

Mahim Pratap Singh

Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government will file a curative petition in the Supreme Court seeking to revive charges of culpable homicide against the accused in the Bhopal gas leak case.

Aditya Sinha

The Madhya Pradesh government today said it would file a review petition in the sessions court against the recent verdict in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, as the sentence to all convicts was insufficient in view of the magnitude of the crime.

This is the right time to ask the govt to rethink the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill

Milind Ghatwai

Bhopal: Seven organisations representing gas tragedy victims came together on one platform on Thursday to say that they expected the group of ministers (GoM) to address issues of justice and opportunities for a life of dignity for survivors.

Twenty five years later, ground zero of the Bhopal gas disaster is still a ghastly minefield for residents. They are still being harmed by the land they live in and the water they drink, writes M Rajshekhar

Mahim Pratap Singh

BHOPAL: Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have written to Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily requesting him to place some of their demands requiring urgent attention before the reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM).

Smita Gupta

NEW DELHI: The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, which was asked by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to report back to the Cabinet by June 24, will meet on Friday and again on Saturday with the object of wrapping up its work as expeditiously as possible, government sources said.

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