January 31, 2009

A work in progress

Centre to identify a laboratory to analyse toxic waste from Union Carbide factory

Order follows Maharashtra Pollution Control Board statement that it cannot predict the impact of burning the toxic waste

DRDO unit not fit to handle union carbide waste : MPCB

Incinerator out of order since two years

Nagpur bench stays transfer of Bhopal's toxic waste

Will it impact the ongoing case in the Madhya Pradesh High Court?

Dow Chemical to help Bhopal gas tragedy victims

Push to create cadre of family doctors for rural India

Government's National Health Systems Resource Centre is finalising recommendations which are likely to seek inclusion of family medicine in MBBS …

Centre for incinerating toxic Bhopal waste in Navi Mumbai

It was earlier to be burnt at a DRDO facility in Nagpur

US Case - In Court

New laws Were written

But how sharp are the teeth?  

Operation Clean-up

Gom recommends rs 300 crore  

Who is liable?

Gom seems lenient towards Union carbide’s new owners  

Young India’s Bhopal challenge

Years of agony

Unchecked

Industry flouts weak regulations at will

Unsettling

What the Centre and the state government did to rehabilitate victims

Serving the symptom

The government still does not know what still afflicts people in Bhopal

Foul Debris

The UCIL plant is still a health hazard

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 …

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 …

Bhopal remembered, Bhopal forgotten

The poison piles up

Ten winters since methyl isocyanate exhaled history's deadliest industrial disaster on Bhopal, action on toxicity remains agonisingly inadequate. …

The chemistry of living death

Ratlam’s toxic legacy

Hazardous waste kept in shut factories continues to contaminate groundwater

Polluter doesnt pay

Dow owns Union Carbide assets, but refuses liability