A year after the 1984 gas disaster, the US multinational Union Carbide Corporation had launched a full-fledged propaganda to project that “evidence was overwhelming to prove that the tragedy at Bhopal was an act of employee sabotage” but both UCC and its subsidiary Union Carbide (eastern), Hong Kong, [now renamed as Union Carbide Asia Pacific Inc. and Union Carbide Asia Ltd.] failed to appear in the chief judicial magistrate’s court here and face trial on the basis of firm evidence.

Yet another tigress, eight-year-old Shweta, died at the Van Vihar National Park in the state capital early Tuesday morning. With this casualty, the death toll of tigresses has gone up to three in this prestigious national park within a year.

The NGOs working for the cause of the gas victims have expressed serious reservations about the recommendations of the Group of Ministers on various issues linked with Bhopal gas tragedy that include enhanced compensation to the gas victims and the families of those killed in the worst industrial catastrophe that hit Bhopal in December 1984.

The chairman of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s minorities’ front Tanveer Ahmed said here on Sunday that the Congress party has “acquired the distinction” of protecting the merchants of death (those resp

Ever since the Supreme Court approved the $470-million out-of-court settlement of compensation with Union Carbide Corporation in February 1989, hundreds of thousand gas affected citizens in Bhopal have continuously felt that they have been cheated because of the meagre compensation awarded to them and also since the multinational company has not been held accountable on the criminal liability front even quarter of a century after the gas disaster.

The Madhya Pradesh government has decided to file a curative petition and also request the Union government/CBI to file a curative petition, before the Supreme Court to review its earlier decision to convert the charge against the accused in the carbide case from section 304-II IPC to Section 304 A IPC in 1996.

Madhya Pradesh’s ruling BJP is once again locked in a tussle with activist groups on whether the relief package for 1984 gas disaster victims should be extended to all 56 municipal wards of the city or over a more precisely defined area.

The Madhya Pradesh minister for Bhopal gas tragedy relief and rehabilitation, Babulal Gaur said here on Tuesday that the government of India has never been serious on the issue of Bhopal gas disaster.

Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Sunderlal Patwa said here on Monday that senior Congress leader Arjun Singh should clarify who had called him up from Delhi and what was he told immediately after the arrest of former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson in the state capital on December 7, 1984. Mr Patwa was

There is renewed hope for the gas victims as people across the country have become one with their cause and are expressing outrage over denial of justice and the manoeuvres of those in authority in Bhopal who had allowed the then Union Carbide Corporation chief Warren Anderson to escape to America when the city was struck by the worst industrial catastrophe in December 1984.