Bhopal gas tragedy: SC dismisses Centre’s plea for additional compensation from Union Carbide

Government should use the Rs 50 crore lying with the Reserve Bank of India to settle further claims, SC ordered

30 years of Bhopal gas tragedy: a continuing disaster

An appraisal by Sunita Narain and Chandra Bhushan, exclusively extracted from the recently released book, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, After 30 Years

There is no treatment for ‘Bhopal Gas Disease’ even after 38 years

When methyl isocyanate is mixed with water at a high temperature, it can produce 65 chemicals, most of them toxic; but so far, no one knows the …

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

Bhopal victims demonstrate in Delhi ahead of Supreme Court hearing on more compensation

Delhi police and CRPF dispersed the group of women survivors and forced them to leave

As told to Parliament (April 7, 2022): 56,747 women scientists engaged in research and development

All that was discussed in the House through the day

37 years of Bhopal gas tragedy: High Covid-19 fatality rate shows health impact of victims wasn't 'temporary'

Age-old questions resurface along with new ones in a novel campaign for justice

Poison, unlimited: India's chemicals industry remains dangerously

India has failed to come up with effective legislations for its chemical industry even 35 years after the Bhopal tragedy

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An unpublished ICMR report found 9 per cent newborns of gas victims had birth defects as against 1.3 per cent newborns of non-victims

Dangers of artificial ripening of fruits and vegetables

Chemicals used to ripen fruits artificially are toxic and can also affect people's neurological system

Waiting for justice

India had a regulatory system of governance already in place to avoid a disaster as big as the Bhopal Gas Tragedy

Subterranean Leak

The CSE tests had found high levels of groundwater and soil contamination in and around the Union Carbide factory

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 …

US court frees Union Carbide of liability in Bhopal gas disaster case

Company need not pay for environmental remediation or pollution-related claims, says district judge

Supreme Court slams Centre over apathy to Bhopal waste

Government says delay is because disposal of the waste is “a highly emotional and politicised matter”

Warren Anderson, ‘fugitive’ in Bhopal gas tragedy case, dies in US

He died on September 29 but family members did not announce his death

CBI can seek Anderson’s extradition

Delhi court gives permission. But is CBI ready?

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 …

Missing evidence

Questions are being raised about the authenticity of forensic samples of Bhopal gas victims, crucial for establishing the cause of deaths. Have …

Subterranean Leak

25 years after the gas leak, another tragedy is unfolding in Bhopal. CSE tests reveal the water and soil in and around the Union Carbide factory …

BHOPAL: the bad dream continues

Bhopal is a metaphor for disaster, industrial and human. It has been the object of much speculation and typically endless litigation. A case …

Could Bhopal gas victims have got more compensation?

A 1988 confidential letter by JRD Tata to Rajiv Gandhi reveals Union Carbide was willing to pay a higher compensation in case of an out-of-court …

Letters

Letters

Bhopal waste is not safe

Reveals RTI reply