Bhopal protesters knock on Dow Chemical's door in Mumbai

Godrej Business District Pirojshahnagar in the eastern Mumbai suburb of Vikhroli had some unusual visitors on Tuesday. They were not well-heeled business professionals but hundreds of poor women, children and men, shouting slogans and carrying placards and posters which denounced Dow Chemical International Private Limited for its apathy towards the victims and survivors of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy.

Groundwater contamination around Union Carbide factory is now officially confirmed

The Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR) has confirmed that the groundwater around the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal is contaminated. In its report submitted to the Supreme Court on September 25, the IITR stated that the levels of heavy metals like lead, nitrate and nickel are much more than the permissible limits set by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).

Supreme Court presses for better health facilities for Bhopal gas victims

The Supreme Court has directed the Centre and the Madhya Pradesh government to immediately act to improve the dismal healthcare facilities provided to the survivors of the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal. Disposing a 14-year-old writ petition, the court brought to the fore a neglected aspect of the gas disaster, the continuing ill effects of which have been passed on from one generation to the next.

Bhopal's toxic waste will go to Germany

Twenty-eight years after the Bhopal gas leak disaster, the Group of Ministers (GoM) constituted to look into matters related to the 1984 industrial mishap has finally reached a decision on disposing of the toxic waste lying at the Union Carbide plant—it is to be sent to Germany.

Ensure piped water supply to residents near Union Carbide plant: monitoring committee to Bhopal municipality

The group of ministers appointed by the Centre to look into Bhopal gas disaster-related matters will meet on June 8 to finalise the disposal of 350 tonnes of hazardous waste lying at the defunct Union Carbide

Chidambaram leaves Bhopal gas disaster survivors disappointed

Union home minister P Chidamabaram's visit to Bhopal on June 5 was short and left the 1984 gas disaster survivors' organisations disappointed. Chidambaram is the chairperson of the group of ministers on Bhopal gas disaster-related matters.

Chidambaram visits Bhopal on June 5

The day before P Chidambaram, the chairperson of the group of ministers on Bhopal gas disaster, is set to visit the city on June 5, he was served with a memorandum by five survivors’ organisations, expressing disappointment because the home minister’s itinerary does not include meeting with the survivors.

Supreme Court orders incineration of Bhopal's toxic waste at non-functional treatment facility in Dhar district

The Supreme court has ordered the disposal of the toxic waste lying in the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal at the Pithampur waste treatment storage and disposal facility (TSDF) in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district. But the facility, located 200 km from Bhopal, is yet to be made operational.

India’s flip-flop on London Olympics

A day after reports emerged that India may partially boycott the 2012 Olympics, the Indian Olympics Authority and sports ministry has said they are yet to reach a decision. The ministry says due to public outcry the Centre wrote to the International Olympic Committee registering their protest to Dow Chemicals' sponsorship of the event. Activists campaigning for the Bhopal gas tragedy victims, however, say the government is not serious about taking a firm stand.

New evidence favours Bhopal gas victims battling Dow Chemical

While the controversy over US multinational Dow Chemical Company sponsoring the 2012 London Olympics rages, certain court documents have come to light which may help Bhopal gas tragedy survivors seek compensation from the company. Though Dow Chemical had bought over Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), which owned the pesticide plant in Bhopal from where the deadly methyl isocyanate gas had leaked in 1984, Dow has been maintaining that UCC is a separate legal entity.