The new banana republic

If India is a growing economic power why is it so eager to put the interests of foreign businesses first?

The new banana republic

All governments need to be watched. You never know when one of them will slip in a nasty tax on the quiet or pass a seemingly simple notification that can be the undoing of entire communities or of the environment. That is the nature of the beast. But how vigilant can people be with a government that will try to alter the entire complexion of a critical law-in-the-making by sneakily replacing a clear-cut ‘or’ with a lethal ‘and’—under the very noses of the MPs opposed to legislation?

Letters

Rohtang ecology under threat

Justice denied

Letters

Don’t spare government and judiciary

Operation Clean-up

There is 1.1 million tonnes of highly contaminated soil at the plant site, according to an estimate by the National Environment Engineering and Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur.

Who is liable?

The group of ministers (GoM) has not made it clear whether Dow Chemicals, the company that acquired UCC in 2001, is to be held liable for the threat to public safety as a result of the toxic waste the pesticide factory dumped on its premises.

New laws Were written

Has Bhopal taught the nation how to ensure industrial safety?

Legal opinions:

Rajeev Dhavan Senior advocate, Supreme Court

Bhopal court cases