Bhopal Gom

• German firm refuses to dispose toxic waste from Bhopal

  A German firm has refused to remove 350 tonnes of toxic waste from Bhopal gas disaster site for disposal in Germany, claiming the soil was contaminated with insecticides and that the waste was not related to the world's worst industrial accident. The refusal may come as a blow to efforts of the Centre and Madhya Pradesh Government to clear off the ...

• Bhopal gas leak: Toxic waste to be dumped in Germany

  A Group of Ministers (GoM) gave its approval to the Madhya Pradesh government on Friday to dispose 350 metric tonnes of Union Carbide toxic waste in Germany. As per the decision, the Centre will pay Rs 25 crore towards the cost of airlifting the waste which will be removed within a year.

• Group of Ministers meets Bhopal gas tragedy victims and activists

  Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, chairperson of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, Salman Khurshid and V Narayanasamy met the Bhopal gas victims and activists today, after the Supreme Court asked it to take a decision on the disposal of toxic waste after the tragedy in 1984 which left thousands dead.

• Supreme Court asks Group of Ministers on Bhopal to decide on toxic waste

  The Supreme Court today asked the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal to decide expeditiously on the disposal of 350 tonnes of toxic waste of the Bhopal Gas tragedy.

• Bhopal GoM recommends Rs 10 lakh for victims

  After 26 years of the worst industrial disaster in Bhopal that left thousands dead and lakhs disabled, the government has decided to compensate the victims. Stung by heavy criticism that the successive congress governments did nothing to provide relief to the victims of Bhopal gas tragedy, the Group of Ministers under Home Minister P Chidam...

• Govt not to pursue Bhopal compensation case in US courts

  The Centre has decided against pursuing the case of Bhopal gas tragedy compensation in US courts, Law Minister M Veerappa Moily said on Wednesday.     "We have taken a decision not to pursue the case as it is not in the interest of victims and not in the interest of India. We have taken a considered decision. Our courts arecompe...

• Bhopal: It's now India versus Anderson, Dow

  From Dow Chemicals to Warren Anderson, the government will now begin a concerted effort to win justice and money for Bhopal, and to fix accountability for the industrial disaster that killed 20,000 residents of the city in 1984.The Cabinet on Thursday accepted the recommendations of the Group of Ministers (GoM) appointed after a court verdict expos...

• Bhopal gas tragedy: Cabinet accepts Group of Ministers' (GoM) report

  The Union Cabinet has accepted the report of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas disaster, a day ahead than originally planned. The report recommended enhanced compensation to the victims under a Rs 1,500 crore package.It also recommended pursuing liability issue with Dow Chemicals and Rs 300 crore for clean-up of the site and pursuing t...

• Bhopal survivors ignored by the state

  Days after the Union Carbide disaster, Bimla Devi, fled Bhopal with her husband. She had come to the city as a new bride. She couldn't return to Bhopal when the surveys were being done simply because she didn't know. Her husband was ailing as well and couldn't travel. She returned after eight long years but she couldn't establish that she was a gas...

• Bhopal panel: Rs 10 lakh for victims, clean-up funded by Centre

  More money for those affected by the Bhopal gas tragedy, a 300-crore clean-up at the site of the tragedy, funded for now by the central government, and assertive legal action to eventually have Dow Chemicals pay the bill - these are the star attractions of the remediation and rehabilitation plan that the government will consider, as it tries to era...

• Bhopal: Group of Ministers (GoM) to submit report to PM today

  The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal gas tragedy met on Monday.According to sources, the ministers have reached a  consensus that the Madhya Pradesh government will undertake exercise of clean up with support from the Centre.They've also decided that Rs 10 lakh will be given to those who lost their lives in India's worst indust...

• Onus of Bhopal clean-up on state government: Panel sources

  After spending two days huddled in meetings over legal and health aspects of the Bhopal gas tragedy, the Group of Ministers (GoM) met again on Sunday, for the fourth time, discussing the environmental damage caused by the gas leakage.After the meeting, Head of the GoM, P Chidambaram said that remedial and contamination issues were discussed and tha...

• Bhopal panel to study toxic clean-up

  After spending two days huddled in meetings over legal and health aspects of the Bhopal tragedy, the Group of Ministers (GoM) is likely to assess the environmental damage caused by the tragedy.With Dow Chemicals saying it bought over Carbide but not its liability, the panel will also decide who should pay for the clean-up of the gas leak site in Bh...

• Bhopal panel to ask Supreme Court for review of verdict

  The Group of Ministers (GoM) constituted on the Bhopal gas tragedy, which met for the third time on Saturday, is likely to petition the Supreme Court for a review of earlier judgments on Bhopal, sources told NDTV."We discussed all the pending legal issues. We also discussed the various legal options in the light of the court judgement," said P Chi...

• Day 2: Bhopal panel to focus on legal options

  The Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal will meet again on Saturday - the second in a series of meetings before the panel submits its report to the prime minister on Monday.Today, the panel is likely to look at legal and health issues in two sittings through the day. It will also look at re-opening cases for harsher punishment against the guilty.In ...