Empowered panchayats make for true liberalisation
A myth actively perpetuated by traditional politicians and a supportive bureauracy is that panchayat bodies are India's lowest ranked …
"The management did not adhere to safety norms"
It is 15 years since 60 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) leaked outfrom Union Carbide Corporation's (UCC) plant in Bhopal, killing 5,000 people …
The chemistry of living death
THE world's biggest industrial disaster has been rendered today its most trivial. Criminal corporate culpability and governmental concern for its …
35 years of Bhopal Gas Tragedy: I waited for 20 years, but nobody studied autopsy samples
D K Satpathy, former head of the Medico-legal Institute of Madhya Pradesh, had preserved hundreds of autopsy samples of gas victims, but none of …
Remembering the 1982 Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Even after 34 years of the tragedy, the victims of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy are still awaiting justice.
Bhopal Gas Disaster
Thousands killed; a generation left to struggle-but does the world's biggest industrial disaster resonate with today's indians, two-thirds of …
Environment as the enemy
We celebrate disruptive financial decisions as a sign of decisive leadership. So why not in the case of environmental emergencies?
Living with Bhopal disaster
A photo chronicle of lives and times of Bhopal gas disaster survivors collated from our archives. Last year marked the 30th anniversary of the …
Bhopal court issues direct summons to Dow Chemical in 1984 gas leak case
Following allegations of non-cooperation from US Department of Justice, a summon has been issued directly to Dow Chemical to appear in the court
The most comprehensive film on Bhopal
The Supreme Court ruled recently, in reference to Beyond Genocide, a film on the Bhopal gas disaster, that Doordarshan cannot curtail the …
Lethal landscape
India has 134 contaminated hazardous sites and another 192 'probable' contaminated hazardous sites, which includes seven sites around the …
Gassing the truth
More than a decade after the Bhopal gas disaster, the data collected from those exposed to the gas remains shrouded in mystery
Bhopal revisited
The government department to provide relief to the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy may be closed down
Bhopal must never be forgotten, indeed must be fixed
Bhopal gas tragedy exposed how systems of corporate liability remain grossly inadequate in a world that uses high-risk technology
"Thou shalt inform..."
Eleven years after the Bhopal gas catastrophe, the Government of India finally recognises communities' right to know about neighbourhood …
14 Years Later..
...there's a Bhopal waiting to happen in the nooks and corners of the country. But the government is yet to take the right steps to ensure the …
Bhopal Gas Disaster: a tragedy in continuum
32 years after the disaster, about 340 tonnes of hazardous waste remains dumped on the premise of the Union Carbide factory
The Bhopal in us
As a society we have never felt the venom of methyl isocyanate and other toxic gases like the Bhopal victims
Justice remains mirage for Bhopal gas victims
Nearly eight years after the Bhopal gas disaster, the legal battle over a settlement continues. But for the efforts of public interest agencies …
No pension for 5,000 Bhopal gas tragedy widows for 18 months
Endless wait for Rs 1,000 a month; victims unable to protest due to COVID-19 pandemic
A change in scene
Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have filed a lawsuit in the US against Union Carbide Corporation and its former head Warren Anderson
Ghost of Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Health issues trickled down to future generations, says study
It has more impacts than thought; nearly 4 decades after the tragedy, future generations are afflicted by disabilities and cancer
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 12, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Birth defects remain high in Bhopal gas survivors 35 years after disaster
An unpublished ICMR report found 9 per cent newborns of gas victims had birth defects as against 1.3 per cent newborns of non-victims
Obituary: Pushpa Mitra Bhargava, a conscientious scientist and advocate of scientific temper
In the death of Dr Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, India has lost one of the most vocal advocates of scientific temper and rationality in India
