Recent Event Highlights: Bhopal gas tragedy survivors block rail tracks, call off stir - Economic Times, Bhopal gas tragedy: Dow Chemicals opposes higher compensation for victims - Economic Times, DECEMBER 3rd BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY- MOONIS ALI, Bhopal like hazards growing in urban centres, warn activists - Daily News & Analysis, Bhopal Gas Tragedy still claiming lives after 27 years, India trains blocked in Bhopal disaster protest - Atlanta Journal Constitution, and 204 more...
Created by dipity on Apr 14, 2009
Last updated: 12/03/11 at 12:11 PM
Excerpt
...ALI, a lawyer by profession, points his fingers to the weak Indian laws, which has not been able to bring justice in the Bhopal Gas Tragedy case. He told Merinews.com, “The Indian law only allows a person an imprisonment of two years for a machinery accident”....
Source Info
Merinews
http://www.merinews.com/article/bhopal-gas-tragedy-still-claiming-lives-after-27-years/15862006.shtml
Excerpt
...history struck the city of Bhopal. But there is still no end to the sufferings of the victims and their families of Bhopal gas tragedy. "We are gas victims. We still suffer from health problems. In the name of compensation we have been given only Rs 25000,"...
Source Info
NDTV
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ndtv/Lsgd/~3/ssOO0Xh18jQ/story01.htm
Excerpt
...in 2001 but denies responsibility for Carbide's Bhopal liabilities. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) — AP A survivor of the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world's worst industrial disaster in India, dances on burning effigies of London Olympic organizing committee chairman...
Source Info
San Diego Union-Tribune
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/dec/02/bhopal-survivors-protest-dows-olympic-sponsorship/
In what comes as a big blow to the Bhopal gas tragedy victims, the Dow Chemicals has told the Supreme Court that it will not pay more compensation for Bhopal victims. ibnlive.com
A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO THE VICTIMS OF BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY . with special animated video COMING SOON,,,,,,,!!!
Join the billion march: www.facebook.com This is a short video depicting the Bhopal gas disaster that had claimed thousands of lives and is still causing health problems for those people in the surrounding region. Through this video let all those who are suffering be remembered. Jai Hind.
For the first time in their 27-year fight for justice, Bhopal gas tragedy survivors will hold a day-long shutdown Oct 11 here, seeking correct government figures on health damage caused in the 1984 industrial disaster, a protester said Saturday. Information provided by cctv.com Thank you www.cctv.com To watch CCTV News 24 live news feed click here: english.cntv.cn www.youtube.com
Rajiv Dixit exposes the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal which was touted as an accident. It was actually a well thought out experiment by the American company to test the efficacy of Methyl Isocynide as a component of chemical bomb. The disaster is the worst ever industrial catastrophe and Rajiv Ji warns us about the future possibilities of similar accidents, given the way chemical waste is being dumped in the country and factories of redundant harmful chemicals set up. This was also the incident after which our Rajiv Bhai started campaigning against MNCs.
New revelations through RTI show that Union Carbide mooted the idea of a 'negotiated settlement' within weeks of the gas leak that took place in its Bhopal plant in December 1984. Not only this, it also decided on the quantum of compensation to be paid to victims as part of the settlement.
report namin
A work for my ecology class. S´PECIAL THANKS TO LALO FOR RECOMMENDING ME THE MUSIC! :D SUSCRIBE to his channel! www.youtube.com
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (May 11) dismissed the CBI plea seeking harsher punishment for accused of over 26-year- old Bhopal gas tragedy. The investigating agency filed its appeal to seek Supreme Court's approval for prosecution of the accused, including Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson , under section 304 IPC dealing with culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a CBI petition seeking more stringent punishment for then UCIL chairman Keshub Mahindra and six others in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. www.istream.in
The Supreme Court has dismissed a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea asking for retrial in the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy case. The CBI had sought a review of the Supreme Court judgement of 1996 that diluted charges against the accused from culpable homicide not amounting to murder to criminal negligence.
The Supreme Court turned down on Wednesday a government demand to re-open the case into the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy and hand harsher sentences to seven men convicted of negligence
TV5 News @ 11th May 2011
It is setback for the Bhopal gas victims, as the Supreme Court dismisses CBI's plea to re-open the case.
Excerpt
Bhopal - About 3,000 cancer and kidney failure patients of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy have not received the compensation amount directed by the central government, survivors said Thursday.
At a press conference by four organisations working among the s
Source Info
IndiaVision
http://www.indiavision.com/news/article/national/184558/
Excerpt
It was sitting on a powder keg, agency tells Supreme Court, justifying filing of curative petition
UCIL was running the plant with structural and operational defects
Tragedy cumulative result of series of violations, not due to negligence as ruled by co
Source Info
The Hindu
http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/14/stories/2011041453831100.htm
The Supreme Court today questioned the CBI for approaching it 16 years after it had diluted in September 1996 the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case.
Warren Anderson was the chairman of Dow Chemicals in 1984 when the tragedy took place.
Excerpt
...India, including Chennai, New Delhi, Mumbai, Plachimada in Kerala, Raipur, and other places to raise awareness on the Bhopal tragedy and to express solidarity with other people's movements in the country. He was part of the joint front of four organisations...
Source Info
Webindia123
Related Topics
http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/India/20110218/1692170.html
CNN-IBN's Nilanjana Bose revisits Bhopal gas tragedy and the trauma for the HIV patients.
no words to say :((
Widows of the world's worst industrial disaster, the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, protest in central India. They are demand more compensation from the state government. Here's more on the story. Hundreds of women widowed by the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy took to the streets, demanding adequate pensions and enhanced compensation. [Balkrishna Namdev, Protester]: "It's been 26 years since the gas tragedy, and in these 26 years the condition of the gas victims' widows has deteriorated. The Madhya Pradesh state government has failed to provide adequate compensation to these women. Even the compensation decided by the Group of Ministers is very low." And their frustrations don't end there. [Balkrishna Namdev, Protester]: "We also demand that all the gas victims, who used to receive about $13-thousand compensation, should now get another $6800." Not being able to cope up with spiraling inflation, the widows say they're now begging on the street for money. The widows had received some compensation at the time of the industrial disaster. However, their rehabilitation program was discontinued after 1996. The federal government had constituted a Group of Ministers, or GoM, to examine all aspects of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, which submitted its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on June 21. The GoM had dealt with all the issues - compensation, legal issues, including the issue of the extradition of Warren Anderson, remediation and health-related matters. In December 1984, toxic ...
The Bhopal Gas Tragedy dominated the proceedings in both the Houses of Parliament. And although the issue was discussed over five hours, it was an exercise in trading charges.
The actor will be in a film based on this tragedy titled 'Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain'
The Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas disaster is all set to roll out relief and rehabilitation for the victims. But first it has to decide who is liable for the mass murder in Bhopal. Our correspondent Yatish Yadav looks at the progress it is making on the issue.
After the plight of the Bhopal gas tragedy victims kicked off a furore across the nation after 26 years, post the verdict. Now, Dow Chemicals, the group that acquired the Union carbide...the company responsible for the Bhopal gas disaster.. has issued an official statement.
The victims of the deadly Bhopal gas tragedy wrote a letter to US President Barack Obama requesting extradition of the tragedy convict Warren Anderson to India. www.istream.in
CNN-IBN's editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai meets the victims of the Union Carbide gas leak 26 years after the disaster.
Now for some news on the fallout of the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict. Victims families say they want political parties to stop pointing fingers over how warren Anderson got out of the country. Deshdeep Saxena spoke to some of these families. They tell him they want a constructive enquiry into what went wrong.
ETV2_news
After over 25 years, eight people convicted for the world's worst industrial disaster have been sentenced to two years in prison. And have got bail. About 20000 people were killed in the Bhopal Gas tragedy of December 2-3, 1984.
Bhopal gas leak tragedy-TRIBUTE ............MUST WATCH.! WE SHALL OVERCOME by five artists- : Pete Seeger : Bruce Springsteen : Joan Baez : Diana Ross : Mahalia Jackson : Hum Honge Kamyaab ( MNIK ) : Martin Luther King Jr. I am just doing a little part from my side for all those 25000+ ppl who lost their lives in this tragedy. [ RATE COMMENT SUBSCRIBE ] No COPYRIGHT infringement intended. All song rights owned by respective artists & this is uploaded strictly for promotional purposes. I make NO profit off this upload/song.
Law minister Veerappa Moily said the case against former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson in connection with the Bhopal gas tragedy was not closed. "As far as Anderson is concerned, the case is not closed," Moily said. www.istream.in
ETV2_news
After over 25 years, eight people convicted for the world's worst industrial disaster have been sentenced to two years in prison. And have got bail. About 20000 people were killed in the Bhopal Gas tragedy of December 2-3, 1984.
Adding to the hurt of the Bhopal tragedy survivors is the US's official reaction. Here's what US Assistant Secretary of State South Asia said while responding to NewsX correspondent Aniruddha Bhattacharyya's query.
Bhopal gas tragedy- Justice failed - Part 2
Twenty five years after the Bhopal gas tragedy claimed 15000 lives, the city is still fuming. In an interview with CNBC-TV18, Mukul Rohatgi, Supreme Court Advocate and Sunita Narain, Director, Center for Science & Environment gave their perspective on the judgement and what it meant for affected communities still protesting 25 years on.
Twenty five years after the Bhopal gas tragedy claimed 15000 lives, the city is still fuming. In an interview with CNBC-TV18, Mukul Rohatgi, Supreme Court Advocate and Sunita Narain, Director, Center for Science & Environment gave their perspective on the judgement and what it meant for affected communities still protesting 25 years on.
Update Sources