GIZ terminates offer to dispose of Bhopal waste

Development follows information regarding GIZ proposal getting leaked in German media

India’s flip-flop on London Olympics

Sports ministry yet to take a decision on boycott after Bhopal tragedy victims’ outcry

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 …

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

Healing festering wounds

An action plan is ready to decontaminate UCILÔÇÖs plant site in Bhopal. It just needs to be implemented

Government closer to signing deal to dispose of Bhopal waste

Most differences over clauses in the contract with GIZ to airlift waste to Germany for incineration resolved at GoM meeting

Bhopal gas leak: curative petition downplays number of deaths

Victims threaten rail roko agitation if government fails to correct death and injury figures in a month

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

Review: ‘The Railway Men’ fails to elevate from soggy soap opera to crackling survival thriller on Bhopal Gas Tragedy

Multiple character arcs, unnecessary storylines turn The Railway Men into a YRF drama that thrives on high use of glycerine, misplaced suspense …

Meeting on final agreement for Bhopal waste disposal ends without decision

 Group of Ministers headed by P Chidambaram to take final decision now 

Memories of Agent Orange

Missing evidence

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

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

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

Bhopal waste disposal: government dithers over finalising contract with German company

Madhya Pradesh government unhappy with clauses in proposed contract

Ground reality

Official report confirms presence of toxins in groundwater near Bhopal’s Union Carbide

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

‘Handling toxic waste is a matter of science, not administration’

Whether it is the dismantling of toxics laden ship from the US, Oriental Nicety, or the clean up of the 350 tonnes of waste lying at the defunct …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 24, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Bhopal’s toxic waste raises stink

Bombay High Court stays transfer of Union Carbide waste to Maharashtra

Bhopal protesters knock on Dow Chemical's door in Mumbai

Demand clean up of toxins in soil and water around Union Carbide plant, production of absconding corporation officials before Indian court

No trial incineration of Bhopal’s toxic waste in Nagpur

Madhya Pradesh High Court takes cognisance of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Boards objection

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