-The Hindu Asks Centre, M.P. to go by recommendations of monitoring and advisory committees and NIREH The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Union government and Madhya Pradesh to take immediate steps for disposal of toxic waste lying in and around the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal in six months. A Bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices A.K. Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar said this should be done on the recommendations of...
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Wary PMO denies info on Bhopal gas tragedy-Nitin Sethi
-The Times of India The PMO has denied information on the Bhopal gas tragedy, Dow Chemicals and the London Olympic Games sponsorship issue under the RTI Act on the strange ground that a "third party" whose interests are involved in the case has advised that revealing the documents would harm India's relations with a foreign country. The third party also told the government that India had received the information "under confidence" from...
More »When the gas leaked, Arjun flew away to pray-Rasheed Kidwai
-The Telegraph When the deadly gas was spreading havoc in Bhopal, Arjun Singh was hundreds of miles away — praying. Hours after the leaking methyl isocyanate gas had left a trail of death in the Madhya Pradesh capital, the state’s then chief minister had taken a flight to Allahabad, where he visited the chapel of his childhood school to pray for “moral courage”. The startling revelation comes in Arjun’s yet-to-be-released memoirs, A Grain...
More »US court frees Union Carbide, Anderson from Bhopal taint
-The Hindustan Times A US court has ruled that neither Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation (reversing or stopping environmental damage) or pollution-related claims by those living around its now-defunct plant in Bhopal, where a gas leak in 1984 killed thousands of people. US district judge John Keenan in Manhattan on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by Bhopal residents seeking to hold UCC, which...
More »US court blow to Bhopal survivors
-The Telegraph A US court has ruled that neither Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation or pollution-related claims arising out of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, dismaying survivors and the NGOs fighting for justice. Manhattan district judge John Keena on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by Bhopal survivor Janki Bai Sahu and others accusing the UCC of causing soil and water pollution around...
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