Union minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh on Saturday announced that an experts committee will go into all aspects and only after that the decision would be taken whether or not to go ahead with the burning of Union Carbide toxic waste at Peethampur.

Union minister for environment and forest Jairam Ramesh has emphasised the need to revamp and improve the working of forest departments in the states by infusing new blood through the recruitment of forest guards and rangers.

The Union minister for environment and forest Jairam Ramesh said here on Friday that the Bhopal Environmental Remediation Oversight Committee will meet here in mid-August to take a decision on disposal, decontamination and remediation of toxic waste and remaining material at the Union Carbide site on the basis of reports of

The response to the Bharat Bandh call given by the Bharatiya Janata Party and other Opposition parties against rising prices was total in the state capital where shops, business establishments and private offices remained closed on Monday.

Bharatiya Janata Party spokesman Tarun Vijay said here on Friday that the situation in Kashmir Valley has gone out of control and the Central government has failed to maintain the honour of the security forces in the troubled state.

The sessions court here granted conditional bail to former Union Carbide India Ltd chairman Keshub Mahindra, who was convicted in the 1984 Bhopal gas leak case.
It, however, reserved its order on the bail applications of the six other UCIL executives convicted in the case last month. District and sessions judge Subhash Kakde g

The executive committee of Madhya Pradesh unit of the BJP on Thursday passed a political resolution which dubs the tax levied by the Jammu and Kashmir government on vehicles of pilgrims going to Amarnath and Vaishneo Devi jazia (tax imposed on non-Muslims during the Mughal rule).

Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari has called upon party workers to stay away from the glamour of power and work for the party organisation keeping in focus the party ideology.

The executive committee of Madhya Pradesh unit of the BJP on Wednesday passed a resolution blaming the former Indira Gandhi-led government at the Centre for taking the “whimsical decision” to permit Union Carbide India Limited to set up the hazardous methyl isocyanate-based pesticide plant on October 31, 1975.

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday expressed disappointment over the central government’s stand on various Bhopal gas disaster related issues and announced that a one-member inquiry commission would be appointed to probe matters linked with the gas tragedy, especially the release of former chairman of Union Carbide Corporation Warren Anderson.