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National Pollution Control Day: Significance and why it's observed

The National Pollution Control Day is observed every year on this day in remembrance of those who lost their lives in the Bhopal Gas traged...

Burman family open to hike Eveready stake, no takeover plans: Mohit Burman

Mohit Burman is a senior member of the Burman family and Vice Chairman of Dabur India.

Bhopal gas tragedy: SC to hear Centre's plea for additional funds on Feb 11

A five-judge bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra said it would hear on February 11 the Centre's plea seeking Rs 7,844 crore as additional f...

Bhopal gas tragedy: Justice S Ravindra Bhat recuses from hearing Centre's plea for additional fund

The Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), now owned by Dow Chemicals, gave a compensation of USD 470 million after the toxic gas leak from the U...

Bhopal gas tragedy: SC to hear Centre's plea for additional Rs 7,844 crore fund to compensate victims

The bench, comprising Justices Arun Mishra, Indira Banerjee, Vineet Saran, M R Shah and S Ravindra Bhat, will hear the curative petition fi...

Why no summons served to Dow Chemical, Court asks MHA in Bhopal Gas Leak case

The Bhopal Group for Information & Action (BGIA), an NGO working for survivors of the gas leak tragedy, had filed an application in this re...

BM Khaitan rolls out sale plan for flagship Eveready

Khaitans are reviewing the Rs 1,500-crore business — when sales in the core battery operation is slowing — as part of a group-level rejig t...

34 years after Bhopal gas leak, survivors continue to fight for proper care

Various organisations fighting for gas leak survivors have been seeking proper medical care, adequate compensation and cleaning of the grou...

Batteries are a 'fad of the decade': Dow's top executive

Dow is a chemical corporation headquartered in Michigan, and the predecessor of the merged company Dow-DuPont.

Don't allow Union Carbide escape court action, groups urge Prime Minister

The US company, as per criminal laws, will cease to be criminally liable for the tragedy, in which thousands of people lost their lives, af...

33 yrs on, gas tragedy survivors still await adequate payout

Families of the deceased and people who bore the brunt of the industrial disaster are now signing a petition, to be sent to the Supreme Cou...

32 yrs on, toxic waste still lying in Union Carbide factory: Activists

Gas leakage from Union Carbide, which made pesticides, on the night of December 2-3, 1984, left more than 3,000 people dead and many more i...

32 years on, Bhopal gas victims still await justice

The state government has to give far more attention and provide far larger support to the most vulnerable sections of gas-victims.

346 tonnes of hazardous waste still lying at Union Carbide premises: Government

Centre said nearly 350 tonnes of hazardous waste is "safely secured" inside the factory premises of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL).

Will ensure safe disposal of Union Carbide waste: Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar

A plan is being charted out for the safe disposal of toxic waste lying at the defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, Prakash Javadekar sa...

Union Carbide accountable for water pollution: Victims

Union Carbide Corp (UCC) is responsible for water pollution that continues to foul local wells at the site of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster.

Union Carbide should face Indian courts over Bhopal disaster: Survey

People in the United States and India want that Union Carbide face an Indian court for its role in the Bhopal Gas tragedy that claimed more...