At a press conference today five organizations working for the victims of the December ‘84 Union Carbide disaster accused the central and state governments of downplaying the damage caused by the American company in the curative […]
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Another shocking entry into Dow’s Hall of Shame. An investigation conducted by New Zealand’s 60 Minutes current affairs program titled To Die For has found high levels of the pesticide chlorpyrifos in The Downtown Inn, the
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The process of disposal of 346 MT of toxic waste lying at defunct Union Carbide plant here has once again hit a road block with several groups protesting the dumping of this poisonous material at Nagpur
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We always knew that our Bhopali Sculpture Garden was most definitely not going to be a one-hit wonder. It was devised to enhance the presence of the Bhopal Medical Appeal at Glastonbury in a participatory and
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NAGPUR: After the High Court in Madhya Pradesh directed the disposal of Bhopal waste in Nagpur and the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court clamped a stay on it, confusion also prevails in getting a departmental
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The Union Carbide plant at Bhopal in the centre of India stank too. One year after Ground Zero I was standing in the wretched, weed-entangled wreckage of the chemical factory where in 1984 eight thousand Indian
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In the middle of the night, people woke up to a nightmare: the air was on fire. The year was 1984, and in the city of Bhopal, India, a Union Carbide Corporation factory exploded. None of
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NAGPUR: The opposition to disposal of Bhopal toxic waste at DRDO facility near Butibori gained support from unexpected quarters on Saturday. One of the prominent persons who led the campaign to remove the waste from the
Bhopal gas victims oppose disposal of waste in Nagpur Read More »
NAGPUR: The disposal of Union Carbide waste at Nagpur seems to be moving towards a bigger controversy. After private incinerator manufacturer Thermax wrote to an NGO that India has no facility to safety burn the waste,
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I’ve been in Bhopal for a month now but I’ve been so consumed by my work at Orya Basti school and on medicinal plants (and blogging!) that I never really had time to visit the Chingari
Who said the Bhopal tragedies were over? Read More »
The commission has been urged to hold companies operating in the EU legally accountable for any “harm” they cause to people and the environment around the world. The demand is made in a petition signed by
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The Madhya Pradesh high court has ordered that the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) dispose of toxic waste from Union Carbide’s bhopal plant. Why the secrecy? INDIA MAY have sent rockets into space. But as a
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