Factfile: What the GoM did for Bhopal victims
India on Thursday announced a hike in compensation for the Bhopal gas tragedy victims and also said it is examining ways to extradite then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson, whom a Bhopal court has declared a proclaimed offender.
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GoM recommends Rs 10 lakh each to victims' kin
The ministerial panel on the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy has recommended that the government press for former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson’s extradition from the US and set aside Rs.1,500 crore as relief package for those affected [...]
'Rajiv Gandhi responsible for Anderson escape'
Maintaining the heat on the Congress over the release of Warren Anderson, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj said on Friday that former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was responsible for allowing the then Union Carbide chief to [...]
'Rajiv was informed of Anderson's safe passage'
Rajiv Gandhi, the then prime minister, was fully informed after the home ministry decided to give safe passage to then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson in the wake of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy and he did not object to it, M K Rasgotra, [...]
BJP And The Ghost Of Maut Ka Saudagar!
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday ended its two-day national executive meeting with a scathing attack on the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government and its chairperson Sonia Gandhi for failing to control rising prices, [...]
Bhopal Gas Tragedy Vedict :Too Little, Too Late?
“Too little too late” and a “travesty/mockery of justice” is how environmentalists described the verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy case announced Monday. The gas leak from the Union Carbide plant in 1984 had left 25,000 [...]
Protest Against The Flame!
The victims and survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, an industrial catastrophe, will hold a protest march on Thursday to press for their long pending demands of rehabilitation and medical care.
The protest was announced on Tuesday to the [...]