-The Hindu Posthumous honour for Abdul Jabbar who fought relentlessly for the victims of the Union Carbide gas leak Abdul Jabbar, a gas victim, waged a lonely and seemingly never-ending battle for the welfare of the survivors of 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy. His relentless struggle for over three decades brought medical and economic rehabilitation to the scores of victims. He will be awarded the Padma Shri posthumously on Monday at the Darbar...
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1984 Bhopal gas tragedy activist Abdul Jabbar passes away -Hemender Sharma
-India Today Bhopal: Social activist Abdul Jabbar, who fought for victims and survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, died on Thursday at a private hospital in Madhya Pradesh's capital city. Jabbar had been undergoing treatment for the past few months. The social activist had lost 50 per cent of his vision and suffered lung fibrosis in the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world's worst industrial disaster. Please click here to read more. ...
More »Bio slurry pellet method of rice cultivation to increase production -EM Manoj
-The Hindu WAYANAD (KERALA): All the farmers, especially the farmers in the modern generation are interested in adopting innovative techniques to increase the production of their crops or to reduce the cost of production. For which either they follow the advise of agriculture experts or simply emulate the agriculture practices of the progressive farmers in their area. Though many among them will try to to develop their own techniques but, very few...
More »Contamination still hounds Bhopal residents -Pheroze L Vincent
-The Hindu The clean-up of the plant is pending due to legal disputes Thirty years after India's worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, contamination owing to the leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide pesticide factory continues to affect residents. The leak of 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984, killed thousands of people in its immediate aftermath and continued to kill people in the...
More »Ground report from Muzaffarnagar: Cruel winter in camp of no hope -Avijit Ghosh & Rakhi Chakrabarty
-The Times of India Days after Akhilesh Yadav urged the media "to go and assess... at the ground level yourself", TOI visited a relief camp for the Muzaffarnagar riot-hit and found the conditions as wretched as before SC's rap to the UP govt for the dismal conditions LOI (Muzaffarnagar): Life is cheap at the riot victims' camp here. In the past weeks, 11 children have died here; 74 pregnant women, 24 in...
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