Lingering tragedy of Bhopal gas disaster
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Lingering tragedy of Bhopal gas disaster

Hindustan Times  

Over 25,000 people are estimated to have died in the Bhopal gas disaster that occurred 40 years ago on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984. Regrettably, they and those registered with other hospitals and clinics under the gas relief department of the state government are denied the best available treatment, despite ₹1,200 crore earmarked for this lying unutilised with the Union health ministry for the last 12 years. A Special Leave Petition was filed before the Supreme Court on March 17, 2010, by eight members of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan and Bhopal Gas Peedit Sangharsh Sahyog Samiti. State of criminal case: Although Union Carbide India Limited and seven officials were convicted by the Bhopal chief judicial magistrate in 2010, all convicts were released on bail, and they filed appeals that have been pending for the last 14 years.

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Bhopal gas tragedy: NHRC directs Union, MP governments to safeguard human rights
1 week, 2 days ago

Bhopal gas tragedy: NHRC directs Union, MP governments to safeguard human rights

New Indian Express  

2nd December 2024 marked 40 years since the Bhopal gas leak disaster happened, one of the worst industrial catastrophes and corporate negligence cases in living memory, not only in India but worldwide, the plea said. The Bhopal gas tragedy has scientific and environmental implications including human, health risks, and contaminated soil, water and air, the plea said. Despite having numerous …

40 years after tragedy struck Bhopal, no end to suffering
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2 weeks, 6 days ago

40 years after tragedy struck Bhopal, no end to suffering

Hindustan Times  

Just after midnight as poisonous plumes of smoke wafted through Madhya Pradesh’s capital city Bhopal four decades ago, Gas Devi was born, gasping for every breath. “The soil and water here are contaminated -- that is why kids are still being born with deformities.” Waste disposal remains a challenge Forty years on, the Union Carbide plant continues to haunt Bhopal …

40 years of Bhopal Gas tragedy: How did the world’s worst industrial disaster unfold? What has happened since?
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3 weeks ago

40 years of Bhopal Gas tragedy: How did the world’s worst industrial disaster unfold? What has happened since?

Firstpost  

In the intervening hours of December 2 and December 3 1984, poisonous methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbine chemical plant on the outskirts of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, instantly killing thousands and maiming lakhs of others. File image/AFP Just after the clock struck 12 at night on December 2, 1984, an industrial accident began to unfold at Union …

Remembering Bhopal Gas Disaster | Governments Do Not Care About the Poor: Bhopal Gas Tragedy Activists
3 weeks ago

Remembering Bhopal Gas Disaster | Governments Do Not Care About the Poor: Bhopal Gas Tragedy Activists

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 02, 2024 13:09 IST - 14 MINS READ December 2-3, 1984. The Bhopal gas tragedy, the world’s deadliest industrial disaster, exemplifies what Rob Nixon, professor of Environment and Humanities at Princeton University, calls “slow violence”—harm that unfolds gradually and invisibly, but with devastating, long-lasting effects. We committed the funds to three key objectives: first, to provide free …

BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY | ‘Court abdicated its responsibility’: Rachna Dhingra
1 year, 7 months ago

BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY | ‘Court abdicated its responsibility’: Rachna Dhingra

The Hindu  

The social activist discusses several critical issues concerning the disaster from the survivors’ perspective. The highly toxic methyl isocyanate gas leak from the Union Carbide Corporation’s pesticide plant in Bhopal injured over half a million people and has killed over 25,000 since 1984. Against this backdrop, Dhingra discusses several critical issues concerning the Bhopal Gas Disaster from the perspective of …

Supreme Court’s Curative Order Has Made Justice For Bhopal Gas Tragedy Survivors Even More Elusive
1 year, 9 months ago

Supreme Court’s Curative Order Has Made Justice For Bhopal Gas Tragedy Survivors Even More Elusive

Live Law  

The Supreme Court’s March 14 order in Union of India & Others vs Union Carbide Corporation & Others, dismissing the curative petitions seeking reexamination of the settlement amount, reached in 1989, following the Bhopal gas disaster in 1984, raises serious questions about the Court’s approach to the survivors’ grievances. It is curious that the Court specifically disapproved the use of …

Bhopal gas tragedy: SC rejects Centre\'s plea for additional compensation for victims
1 year, 9 months ago

Bhopal gas tragedy: SC rejects Centre\'s plea for additional compensation for victims

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the Centre's curative plea seeking an additional Rs 7,844 crore from the Union Carbide Corporation's successor firms to extend higher compensation to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy that killed over 3,000 people and caused environmental damage. The bench also comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Abhay S Oka, Vikram Nath and …

Bhopal gas tragedy case | Supreme Court dismisses Centre’s petition seeking additional compensation
1 year, 9 months ago

Bhopal gas tragedy case | Supreme Court dismisses Centre’s petition seeking additional compensation

The Hindu  

March 14, 2023 11:04 am | Updated 01:10 pm IST - New Delhi The Supreme Court on March 14 dismissed the government’s curative petition to secure more money from Union Carbide Corporation to pay the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy as an attempt which came 39 years too late after what came to be known as ‘the world’s largest …

Explained | What does the Centre want in Bhopal gas case?
1 year, 11 months ago

Explained | What does the Centre want in Bhopal gas case?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Union of India calls the Bhopal gas leak tragedy the world’s largest industrial disaster. Thirty-nine years after the incident, a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court led by Justice S. K. Kaul has reserved its judgment on a curative petition filed by the Centre in November 2010 to enhance the $470 million compensation fixed in …

Bhopal gas tragedy | Supreme Court reserves verdict on Centre’s curative plea seeking enhancement of compensation to victims
1 year, 11 months ago

Bhopal gas tragedy | Supreme Court reserves verdict on Centre’s curative plea seeking enhancement of compensation to victims

The Hindu  

A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its judgment on Centre’s curative petition seeking enhancement of compensation to the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy, over and above the $470 million already paid by Union Carbide. An earlier five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court had in 2011 issued notice to respondents, including Union Carbide Corporation, now a …

1984 Bhopal gas tragedy: Four decades on, no closure in sight for victims
2 years ago

1984 Bhopal gas tragedy: Four decades on, no closure in sight for victims

Firstpost  

The story of Bhopal gas tragedy becomes more glaring and tragic in the absence of any environmental assessment, accountability, punishment or lessons learnt The Bhopal gas leak from the factory on the intervening night of 2nd and 3rd December 1984 is estimated to have killed between 3,700 and 25,000 people and poisoned half a million. The story of Bhopal gas …

37 years of Bhopal gas tragedy: All you need to know about world's worst industrial disaster
3 years ago

37 years of Bhopal gas tragedy: All you need to know about world's worst industrial disaster

India TV News  

Highlights Methyl isocyanate leakage from Union Carbide on intervening night of Dec 2, 3 killed over 3K people The cause of the so-called 'accidental leakage' is still under debate. Here's the timeline of the Bhopal gas tragedy: December 3, 1984: Toxic methyl isocyanate gas releases from Union Carbide India Ltd’s pesticide plant in Bhopal killing about 15,000 people and injuring …

Bhopal gas tragedy: Remembering India's worst industrial disaster as victims still await justice
3 years ago

Bhopal gas tragedy: Remembering India's worst industrial disaster as victims still await justice

Firstpost  

Tragedy struck Madhya Pradesh’s capital after midnight on 3 December 1984 when thousands died following the leak of poisonous gases from the Union Carbide Corporation plant First, there was Chernobyl and then there was the Bhopal gas leak. Thirty-seven years ago on this day, India experienced a horror of untold magnitude in the form of the Bhopal gas leak in …

Governments Failed to Bring Culprits of Bhopal Gas Tragedy to Justice Even After 37 Yrs, Say Survivors
3 years ago

Governments Failed to Bring Culprits of Bhopal Gas Tragedy to Justice Even After 37 Yrs, Say Survivors

News 18  

NGOs working for the rights of the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster on Wednesday alleged that various governments in Madhya Pradesh and at the Centre have failed to bring the culprits of the world’s biggest industrial tragedy to justice even after 37 years. “We would like the world to know that even after 37 years of the world’s …

Give Free Treatment To Bhopal Gas Tragedy Victims Suffering From Cancer In Bhopal AIIMS: Madhya Pradesh High Court Directs Govt
3 years, 3 months ago

Give Free Treatment To Bhopal Gas Tragedy Victims Suffering From Cancer In Bhopal AIIMS: Madhya Pradesh High Court Directs Govt

Live Law  

In a significant order, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the State Government to provide free of cost treatment to Bhopal Gas Tragedy victims who are suffering from Cancer in Bhopal AIIMS.The Bench of Chief Justice Mohd. In a significant order, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the State Government to provide free of cost treatment to Bhopal …

Bhopal Gas Tragedy Survivors Account for 23% of Covid-19 Casualties in the City
3 years, 6 months ago

Bhopal Gas Tragedy Survivors Account for 23% of Covid-19 Casualties in the City

News 18  

As Madhya Pradesh has moved towards unlocking in a phased manner seeing the second wave of Covid-19 ebbing, the hapless survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide tragedy continue to suffer. Since last year the survivors’ organisations are claiming that 1984 victims account for more than half of the Covid-19 casualties in Bhopal and it seems the situation remains the same. …

In Photos: 36 Years after Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Families Still Struggle to Pick Up Threads of Life
3 years, 11 months ago

In Photos: 36 Years after Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Families Still Struggle to Pick Up Threads of Life

News 18  

Mohd Shafiq was eight years old when his mother vomited blood due to inhalation of MIC gas leaked from the UCIL factory. The deaths of four workers at the Rourkela Steel Plant last week due to a toxic gas leak is the latest in India’s long toll of industrial disasters. Widely known as the “world’s worst industrial disaster”, the Bhopal …

Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan announces memorial for Bhopal gas tragedy victims
4 years ago

Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan announces memorial for Bhopal gas tragedy victims

India TV News  

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday said a memorial would be built to commemorate those who lost their lives in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. "A memorial will be built to commemorate the people who lost their lives due to the toxic gas leak from a pesticide plant on December 2-3 night in 1984," Chouhan said at …

MP CM announces memorial for Bhopal gas tragedy victims
4 years ago

MP CM announces memorial for Bhopal gas tragedy victims

The Hindu  

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday said a memorial would be built to commemoratethose wholost their lives in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. “A memorial will be built to commemorate the people who lost their lives due to the toxic gas leak from a pesticide plant on December 2-3 night in 1984,” Chouhan said at an all …

Still Bearing the Wounds: Ailments Among Bhopal Gas Tragedy Victims Have Surged Over Years, Says Health Centre
4 years ago

Still Bearing the Wounds: Ailments Among Bhopal Gas Tragedy Victims Have Surged Over Years, Says Health Centre

News 18  

Painting a grim picture of the health hazards the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy sufferers have endured in the past 15 years, an organisation working for their treatment said that ailments among survivors have surged in this period. Dr Sanjay Srivastava from Sambhavna Trust Clinic, a dedicated facility in the old city for treatment of victims of the industrial disaster, said …

6 Bhopal Gas Tragedy Survivors Died Due to Hospital Negligence After Contracting Covid-19, Says Group
4 years, 3 months ago

6 Bhopal Gas Tragedy Survivors Died Due to Hospital Negligence After Contracting Covid-19, Says Group

News 18  

Organisations working with the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster have accused the Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre of criminal negligence and mismanagement after six victims of the gas tragedy who recently contracted Covid-19 died in the institute’s isolation ward over the past fortnight. “BMHRC’s motto, ‘In service of gas victims’, and this hospital is doing every disservice …

Madhya Pradesh CM urged to provide interim relief to Bhopal gas survivors
4 years, 4 months ago

Madhya Pradesh CM urged to provide interim relief to Bhopal gas survivors

The Hindu  

Groups working for Bhopal gas tragedy survivors on Sunday appealed to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to provide interim relief to survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Writing to Mr. Chouhan, the Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghathan and the Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahayog Samiti demanded relief for each survivor, “who is facing a torrid time during the …

Organisations Write Letter to MP Govt Seeking Help for Bhopal Gas Tragedy Victims in View of Covid-19
4 years, 4 months ago

Organisations Write Letter to MP Govt Seeking Help for Bhopal Gas Tragedy Victims in View of Covid-19

News 18  

Organisations working for the cause of survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy on Sunday demanded urgent help for the victims, especially widows, from the Madhya Pradesh government in view of the COVID-19 crisis. In a letter addressed to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, these organisations claimed the condition of about 5,000 widowed victims has become pathetic, as they have …

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