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  Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Verdict Today On Petition For Additional Funds

  Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce its verdict today on the Centre's curative plea seeking an additional Rs 7,844 crore from Union Carbide Corporation's successor firms to extend higher compensation to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.

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  On Compensation To Bhopal Gas Leak Victims, Successor Firms Say...

  Successor firms of the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) told the Supreme Court on Thursday that the depreciation of the rupee since 1989 cannot be a ground to now seek a "top-up" of compensation for the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy.

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  Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Supreme Court Says Centre Can't Reopen Settlement After 30 Years

  The Supreme Court Tuesday pulled up the Centre for pursuing its curative plea seeking an additional Rs 7,844 crore from successor firms of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) for giving compensation to the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy.

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  Supreme Court To Hear Bhopal Gas Tragedy Compensation Plea On February 11

  The Supreme Court on Wednesday, re-scheduled to February 11, the hearing on the Centre's plea seeking Rs 7,844 crore as additional funds from the firms succeeding US-based Union Carbide Corporation, currently owned by Dow Chemicals, to disburse as compensation to victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy.

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  Bhopal Gas Leak: Fresh Warrant Against 2 Who Helped Warren Anderson Escape

  Bailable warrants have been issued against the then an administration officials and a police officer who were accused of helping Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson escape from India after the 1984 gas tragedy. Then district Collector Moti Singh and retired Superintendent of Police Swaraj Puri had failed to appear in the court despit...

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  Petition Urges US Government To Hold Dow Chemicals Accountable For Bhopal Leak

  A group of NGOs working for survivors of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy today said they have emailed a petition with over 1 lakh signatories to the White House to mount pressure on Dow Chemicals, owner of Union Carbide Corporation, to appear before a local court next month.

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  Opinion: 30 Years After Gas Tragedy, Can Obama and Modi Ensure Justice for Bhopal?

  Salil Shetty is the Secretary General of Amnesty International.

• Bhopal: Court summons Dow Chemicals in gas tragedy case

  Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Bhopal, Pankaj Maheshwari issued a notice to Dow Chemicals on Friday to appear before the court on July 4 and present its stand with regard to the Bhopal gas leak disaster of December 1984.

• Supreme Court fast-tracks Bhopal cases

  The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Union Carbide Corporation, Dow Chemicals and others on a Centre's plea seeking enhancement of compensation to the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore.The apex court also sought replies of Mcleod Russel India, which holds 50.9 per cent share in UCIL, currently known as ...

• Warren Anderson getaway: The Delhi stopover

  A crucial point of the controversy over the Bhopal Gas Tragedy verdict has been the exit route offered to Warren Anderson, who was the American CEO of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) in 1984 when a gas leak from the company's plant choked Bhopal.

• The unsung heroes of Bhopal gas tragedy

  The Bhopal gas tragedy is a story that shows up the worst in man - corporate cover-ups, criminal negligence and acute political lapses.