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• Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Victims still await justice

  It has been 26 long years since one of the world's worst industrial disasters struck Bhopal. However, even today, most of the victims await justice even as the main accused of the tragedy, Warren Anderson, walks free. Renu was one-year-old when the Union Carbide tragedy struck and the poisonous methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas engulfed her colony, ...

• Torch rally to mark Bhopal gas tragedy anniversary

  Over 500 survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy and victims of the resultant water contamination staged a torchlight march on Thursday to mark the 26th anniversary of one of the world's worst industrial disaster on Friday.They walked from Bhopal Talkies to the Union Carbide India's abandoned pesticide factory which spewed tonnes of poisonous meth...

• 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 tragedy: Doctors duped survivors

  About Rs 400 crore has been claimed to have been spent in providing free healthcare to those affected by Bhopal gas leak. But, NDTV's Mohuya Chaudhri finds that patients are being duped with placebos.

• 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 survivors' letter to Group of Ministers

  This afternoon, nine senior ministers meet to draft the agenda for the government on different dimensions of the Bhopal gas tragedy. The Group of Minister (GoM), headed by P Chidambaram, have been asked by the Prime Minister to report to the cabinet within ten days.The to-do list is a complex one for the GoM. The contentious getaway of Warren Ander...

• 982 Crores for Bhopal Ahead of Group of Ministers' Meet

  Hours before nine ministers come together to discuss the government's agenda for Bhopal, the Planning Commission has sanctioned 982 crores  for the Madhya Pradesh government.The money will reportedly be assigned to Health and Environment issues in the state.The fund will have to be approved by the Group of Ministers (GoM) who meet for the firs...

• Warren Anderson getaway: Passing the political buck

  Was Warren Anderson guaranteed that no action would be taken against him when he visited Bhopal days after the city's gas tragedy? As multiple reports suggest that was the case, politicians and bureaucrats are offering conflicting versions of exactly who made this offer - one that has compromised justice, and has recently become a political albatro...

• BJP attacks Congress for promising safe passage to Anderson

  "Why is Arjun Singh silent?" asked the BJP on Thursday as it slammed the Congress over Warren Anderson's exit from India after the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984.Anderson was the CEO of Union Carbide Corporation when a gas leak at its Bhopal plant poisoned the city on the night of December 3 that year. (In Pics: Who is Warren Anderson)The BJP's Ravi S...

• Pranab won't meet Dow representatives in US

  Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday ruled out any meeting with officials of DowChemicals, the new owners of Union Carbide Corp, during his visit to the US next week."If I go there at all, I would be addressing the (US-India) CEOs meeting and also have some bilateral meetings with Treasury officials. I do not know of any other meeting. I ...

• Fresh compensation likely for Bhopal victims

  The Group of Ministers on Bhopal is likely to take a fresh look at the compensation given to the victims of the gas tragedy, sources tell NDTV. The money could come from budgetary support.

• Will evaluate request from India on Anderson's extradition: US

  The United States has said it would "carefully evaluate" any request from India to bring to justice Warren Anderson, the former CEO of Union Carbide, who is wanted in a case related to the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy that killed several thousands of people.US State Department spokesperson PJ Crowley told reporters that the US would carefully evaluate a...

• Warren Anderson: Two arrest warrants, last ignored by CBI?

  The trial court in the Bhopal gas tragedy case had issued an arrest warrant against former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson last year but the CBI had failed to give any written response to it, according to court sources.They said the warrant, the second against Anderson, was issued by Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari on July 2, 2009 but th...

• Bhopal tragedy: Arjun has missing links, says Shivraj Singh Chouhan

  The polemics are, as expected, getting more acrimonious and political. After the nano-punishment handed out on Monday in court in the Bhopal gas tragedy, the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister today slammed Arjun Singh who was the Congress Chief Minister of the state in 1984 when a gas leak from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal poisoned an entire city....

• Bhopal tragedy: Dow not liable for Bhopal?

  Who should be made to pay for cleaning up the abandoned Union Carbide Plant in Bhopal - the epicenter of the world's worst industrial disaster? 20,000 people have died since a gas leak in 1984 poisoned an entire city, and many more continue to be affected by tons of toxic waste still at the site.  In 2005, the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertili...