LALIT SHASTRI

Pleading on behalf of the accused in the Union Carbide gas tragedy case, the defence counsel Prasad Dhakephalkar submitted before court of the chief judicial magistrate here on Monday that prosecution has drawn attention towards a new possibility.

Bhopal gas tragedy victims on Thursday accused the Madhya Pradesh Government of concealing facts, and said it continued to deny publicly that 16,000 people had died in the aftermath of the tragedy and 5,000 women were widowed.

Bhopal gas tragedy victims Thursday accused the Madhya Pradesh government of concealing facts, and said it continued to deny publicly that 16,000 people had died in the aftermath of the tragedy and 5,000 women were widowed.

Representatives of four organisations of Bhopal gas disaster survivors presented information obtained through the Right to Information Act here.

Gokul Chandrasekar

CHENNAI: Live Earth run for water, one of the largest global initiatives on the water crisis, scheduled to be held in over 100 cities across the world on April 18 has come to a halt in most major cities, including in Chennai, after local organisers realised that Dow Chemicals was the key sponsor of the event.

The CBI counsel sought another 15 days, but the CJM was unrelenting and refused to extend the proceedings
The Bhopal chief judicial magistrate M.P.

Tiwari on Monday turned down the request by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) counsel to advance the final hearing in the criminal case linked with the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster.

Priscilla Jebaraj

NEW DELHI: A Kerala Government panel's ruling on the damages Coca-Cola must pay villagers affected by pollution from its Palakkad bottling plant is likely to rekindle the debate on the compensation limits set by the Nuclear Liability Bill.

Despite the recent Supreme Court directive to dispose of the hazardous waste lying in the now-defunct Union Carbide Plant by putting it through an incinerator in Dhar district of the State, the trial runs for waste disposal flout environmental norms, activists claim.

The toxic waste is to be incinerated at the Common Transport Storage and Disposal Facility (CTSDF) at Pitampura in Dhar.

S.S. NEGI

After persistent hammering by the Supreme Court over disposal of the deadly methyl isocyanate and toxin's waste material from Union Carbide's defunct plant at Bhopal where over 3,000 people were killed and lakhs of others crippled for life, the Centre finally has created hightech incinerator facility in Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh itself to burn it after 25 years.

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