Sourcing clean, clear plastic bottles, among the myriad types of plastics collected by Magpie for recycling, has not been as fruitful as you might think considering our twisted taste for bottled water. In our foraging for […]
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Alan Williams, a metal sculptor based in Brighton, explains how he made the six-foot metal armature for our skull and an eight-foot mother-and-child figure for our Bhopali Sculpture Garden at the forthcoming Glastonbury Festival. We started
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In October last year, gas-affected Ms Hazra Bee, a Bhopali activist and women’s rights campaigner (left) filed a request with the Central Information Commission (CIC, New Delhi) for copies of the following information (from Jan 2000
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How can I forget that day of 5th April 2010 which was normal, just like any other day. I had finished all my work and was just sipping a cup of tea. Then suddenly I felt
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Michael Eavis, Glastonbury Festival founder, is a patron of Children’s World International and, since last September, The Bhopal Medical Appeal (BMA), so it made lots of sense to get in touch! It’s a match made in
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What are we doing at Glastonbury? How did it come about? Why? Here’s the first in our series of Glastonbury preparation videos. Workshops every Tuesday 6-8pm and Saturday 11-1pm in central Brighton. Please call the office
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When a chambermaid of Sofitel Hotel in Manhattan complained of molestation against no less a person than Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former French finance minister, the then IMF managing director and a potential candidate in French politics
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New Delhi, May 31 (PTI) Overuling objections, the CIC has directed External Affairs Ministry to disclose the communication between it and CBI on the issue of extradition of the then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson in
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NEW DELHI: The Agriculture Ministry has asked Dow Chemicals’ Indian subsidiary to explain why the registration certificates granted to four chemicals produced by it should not be cancelled. This is a follow-up to the government’s decision
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Bhopal, May 25 (IBNS): Leaders of five organisations of the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal on Wednesday condemned the recommendations of the government appointed Peer Review Committee (PRC) on remediation of toxic
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New Delhi: Admitting that it has moved on Bhopal gas disaster issue in view of public outcry, the government has said it will ask CBI to seek early hearing in a Bhopal court on its revision
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Contrary to the claims made by Union Carbide Corporation — now The Dow Chemical Company — that the methyl isocyanate (MIC) which killed thousands of people in Bhopal in December, 1984, following a leak in its
MIC had delayed, recurrent cyanide toxicity Read More »
