Bhopal Toxic Waste

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  40 Years After Bhopal Tragedy, Disposal Of Toxic Waste Poses Cancer Threat

  Forty years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, its toxic waste cocktail is brewing afresh. About 350 metric tons of hazardous waste from the Union Carbide factory is set to be disposed of at the Treatment Storage Disposal Facility in Pithampur, Indore.

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  Exclusive: Bhopal Gas Leak's Toxic Waste Disposal May Spark Health Crisis

  Nearly 40 years after the gas leak at Bhopal's Union Carbide factory left over 5,000 people dead and severely affected thousands more, the Madhya Pradesh government is set to begin incinerating 345 metric tonnes of the toxic waste from the ruins

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  336 Tonnes Of Hazardous Waste At Bhopal Gas Tragedy Site: Government

  Around 336 tonnes of hazardous waste is lying in the premises of Union Carbide India Limited, site of the infamous 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, the government today said.

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  32 Years On, Toxic Waste Still Present In Union Carbide Factory: Activists

  Survivors of 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy today staged a protest in front of the now-defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal on the 32nd anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster.

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  Will Ensure Safe Disposal Of Union Carbide Waste In Bhopal: Prakash Javadekar

  A plan is being charted out for the safe disposal of toxic waste lying at the defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, the gas leakage from where killed more than 25,000 people in December 1984, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said today.

• Madhya Pradesh stuck with Bhopal's chemical waste

  The 28th anniversary of the world's worst industrial tragedy falls on December 3, but the toxic chemical waste at the Union Carbide plant premises in Bhopal has not been disposed off and is unlikely to be done soon.

• No contract was given to dispose of Bhopal toxic waste: German firm

  A German firm has claimed that it withdrew its offer to dispose of 350 tonnes of toxic waste from the Bhopal gas disaster site because it did not receive any contract to do the job from the Indian or the state governments.

• 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: Supreme Court orders disposal of toxic waste in 6 months

  The Supreme Court today set a six-month deadline for removal and disposal of toxic waste of the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal and asked the Centre and Madhya Pradesh government to do the job within the stipulated time frame.

• 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.

• Germany, India in talks over treating toxic waste from 1984 Bhopal gas disaster

  A German development aid organisation on Thursday said it was in talks with the Indian government to dispose of 350 tonnes of toxic waste from the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster.

• 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.

• Nobody interested in removing Bhopal toxic waste, says Supreme Court

  The Supreme Court today has asked top secretaries of the Central and Madhya Pradesh government to be present in Court tomorrow to help decide on disposing of 350 tonnes of toxic waste of Bhopal Gas tragedy. Besides them, the secretaries of the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), Chemical and Petrochemicals and Secretary of the Madhya Pradesh...