The government is not keen to change the classification of victims of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy in its curative petition before the Supreme Court and allow higher compensation for thousands or admit to a higher number of fatalities, although it is ready to consider doubling the relief demanded for the small number it currently accepts as dead and those permanently scarred due to the lethal gas leak. The government seems to...
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BJP’s cow dung gems: stops C-sec, n-radiation by Milind Ghatwai
* Only those inside houses coated with cow dung escaped the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy. * There are only two ways to remain insulated from nuclear radiation, and one of them is application of cow dung. * Using cow dung can ensure normal delivery instead of C-section. * Those who drink the milk of jersey cow and buffaloes commit more crime than those who consume only desi cow’s milk. * Only the cow can...
More »Year of criticism, from the bench and against it by Krishnadas Rajagopal
Judicial activism was the key in many Supreme Court observations and judgments during 2011. 2011 CVC THOMAS: A three-judge bench led by CJI SH Kapadia declared “non est” — or nonexistent — the majority recommendation of a high-powered committee for P J Thomas as Central Vigilance Commissioner. The court ruled that the Prime Minister and the Home Minister’s recommendation amounted to “official arbitrariness”, coming in spite of the dissent of the third...
More »Dow "agrees" to remove branding from London Olympics by Hasan Suroor
Dow Chemical was on Sunday reported to have agreed to remove all its branding from the London Olympic stadium following protests from campaigners here and in India over its links to 1984 Union Carbide Bhopal Gas Tragedy. Under a £7 million deal, Dow was to sponsor a fabric wrap that would surround the Olympic stadium in East London. A report in The Sunday Express quoted the company as saying that it was...
More »Government website on Bhopal Gas Tragedy shows old figures
-IANS For over a year now a section of a Madhya Pradesh government website has not updated information on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. And the facts and figures it gives out are two-three years old. The section of Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department, a part of www.mpinfo.org, was last updated Dec 9, 2010, while the facts and figures mentioned on it are of 2008 and 2009. The site, which has 10...
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