On Tuesday, March 14th, the Supreme Court of India reconvened to hear the findings of the judge’s panel on the central government’s curative petition brought against Dow Chemical and its subsidiary Union Carbide for additional compensation …
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On the evening of Friday, December 2nd, the night of the 38th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster, more than 1,000 survivors boarded trains to Delhi to petition the Central Government to allow the survivor community …
On September 20th, 2022, the Government of India’s Bhopal Curative Petition, which seeks to reopen the civil settlement which it struck with Union Carbide in 1989, once again came up for hearing before the Supreme Court of …
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On June 23rd 2022, The Bhopal Group for Information and Action (BGIA) wrote a letter to the Chairman of the Monitoring Committee formed by the Supreme Court of India for provision of clean water to residents …
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Today, May 11th, marks another development in the ongoing criminal trial pending against Union Carbide India Limited and its officials at the Bhopal chemical factory on the day of the gas disaster in 1984. Two factory …
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As of last Thursday, February 3rd, it was 30 years to the day since Warren Anderson, former Chairman of Union Carbide Coporation (UCC), and 11 others named as offenders in the Bhopal gas disaster by the …
On December 29th, 2020, Bhopal survivor groups wrote a letter to the Chief Minister of the Madhya Pradesh State Government requesting payment of pensions for 470 women widowed by the gas disaster. Under a State Government …
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On December 2nd, 2021, survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster held a series of protests across the city that lasted throughout the day and into the evening. They marched with banners and flaming torches and …
On the evening of December 2nd, staff and volunteers from the Sambhavna clinic held a candlelit vigil outside the Union Carbide factory site in Bhopal to mark the 37th anniversary of the disaster. Arranging a flower …
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On the evening of November 30th, 2021, staff and trustees of the Chingari Trust, together with children receiving treatment at the clinic and their families, held a small candlelit vigil at Neelam Park to mark the …
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The Dow Chemical company and its subsidiary Union Carbide are the biggest single contributor to hot spots of toxic air pollution in the entire United States, according to studies conducted by ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom that …
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K V Shetty, superintendent at the Union Carbide Corporation factory in Bhopal on the night of the gas leak in 1984, died last month aged 80. Shetty was one of 8 Indian officials accused of criminal …
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