-The Hindu The Union Sports Ministry has written to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), urging it to cancel the Sponsorship of Dow Chemical for the London Olympics. In a letter, dated February 24, to IOC president Jacques Rogge, the Ministry's joint secretary Rahul Bhatnagar said that such a step by the IOC would assuage the “feelings of millions of people” and send a strong message the world over for upholding the noble...

-PTI   The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has appreciated Indian Olympic Association's (IOA) concern for the victims of 1984 Bhopal Tragedy but maintained that Dow Chemicals had no ownership stakes in Union Carbide till 2000.  IOC also said that its relationship with Dow Chemicals is well over 30 years and "we were aware of the Bhopal tragedy when discussing the partnership with Dow".  IOA has repeatedly expressed its opposition to the Dow Chemicals as...

-The Indian Express Controversial London 2012 Olympics Sponsors Dow Chemical Company secretly traded through a web of intermediaries to avoid a legal ban imposed on selling products in India after the Bhopal gas tragedy that killed nearly 25,000 people, it has emerged. According to 'The Independent', legal documents have revealed that Dow continued to permit the unlawful practice started by Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), the company responsible for the disaster, after it...

The Sangh Parivar is systematically following its “Indianisation reforms” in schools run by its affiliates. THE attempts of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS)-led Sangh Parivar at “saffronising” education attracted widespread attention between 1998 and 2004 when the Hindutva combine's political arm, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), held the reins of power at the Centre. During that period, especially between 1998 and 2002, the BJP's Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi...

-The Hindu Some of the country's most prominent para-athletes, Bhopal gas leak victims and campaigners have called on the Union Government to boycott the upcoming London Olympics unless Dow Chemical is dropped as sponsor. “All Indian para-athletes should boycott London Paralympics-2012 until Dow Chemical is dropped as a sponsor. The Indian Olympics Association and the Sports Ministry of India should show much stronger protests against this Sponsorship,” said Haryana Paralympic Association secretary...