Category: News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical

Jeny Dolly reports… Representatives of 44 organisations from 15 different countries who came together for a Climate Justice Conference at Bangkok endorsed a memorandum to the Prime Minister of India asking him to take immediate action on the Bhopal issue. The endorsed memorandum was given to the Indian Embassy in Thailand this morning. Six of…

Times of India, July 15, 2008 NEW DELHI: Alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) have criticised the institution for accepting Dow Chemical Company as one of its sponsors. Dow is the current owner of Union Carbide, whose plant leaked toxic gas killing 3, 500 people in Bhopal in 1984. IIT Mumbai has accepted…

Mihika Basu, Daily News & Analysis, July 15, 2008 Golden jubilee organisers asked not to associate with the chemical company Even as the alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) are getting together in July to celebrate 50 years of their alma mater, a section of them have condemned the organisers of the…

Thaindian News, July 14, 2008 Mumbai/New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Hundreds of former and present students, including many faculty members of the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B), have protested acceptance of sponsorship by an alumni group from US-based Dow Chemicals for a golden jubilee conference in New York July 18-20. Addressing the media in Mumbai…

Ndtv.com, July 14, 2008 About 500 people, including alumni and faculty members of IIT-Bombay on Monday protested the inclusion of US chemical giant Dow Chemical as a sponsor for its golden jubilee conference in New York, alleging that the firm failed to provide adequate compensation to Bhopal gas tragedy victims. An ‘open letter’ signed by…

Ryan Chittum, Columbia Journalism Review, July 7, 2008 The paper raises questions it doesn’t answer The New York Times has an interesting page-one story today about the legacy of pollution at the Union Carbide plant in India, twenty-three years after the worst industrial disaster in history. But while it reports on the Indian government’s haplessness…

SOMINI SENGUPTA, New York Times, July 7, 2008 In 2004, complaints from area residents led the Supreme Court to order the state to supply clean drinking water to the people living around the factory, like this young girl, filling buckets fed from a government-provided tank. By then, nearly 20 years had gone by, with residents…

The Observer, June 29, 2008 Who is responsible for the dispersal of contaminated manure? Example of unhealthy tomato leaves curling inwards, affected by contaminated manure. Photograph: Katherine Rose Gardeners who have unwittingly poisoned their own vegetables by applying manure contaminated with a powerful new herbicide are incensed – and rightly so. Seeing months of hard…

Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action PRESS RELEASE NEW DELHI, 28 JUNE, 2008 — Appealing to the Prime Minister to “Have a Heart and Do Justice in Bhopal,” a delegation of Bhopali children visited the Prime Minister’s residence today to deliver…

Madhur Singh, Time Magazine, June 28, 2008 Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas disaster and activists take part in a protest march in New Delhi on May 13, 2008. Manan Vatsyayana / AFP / Getty The sad truth facing the victims of the natural disasters in China and Burma is that they will soon disappear…

Uma Asher, Times of India, June 22, 2008 As Gandhi once showed the world, the hunger strike is a powerful moral weapon of the weak. It took decades but it worked, where lawsuits in colonial courts or armed resistance to imperial strength might have failed. But do hunger strikes have any power today? Indra Sinha,…

Akshaya Mukul & Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, June 22, 2008 NEW DELHI: Even though senior UPA ministers as well as deputy chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia have supported absolving Dow Chemicals of any legal liability in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy case, the group of ministers on Bhopal headed by HRD…

The Hindu, June 22, 2008 Solidarity: Members of International Campaign for Justice, along with students and supporters of Bhopal gas victims, taking part in the candlelight vigil on M.G. Road in Bangalore on Saturday. — Photo: K. Murali Kumar Bangalore: Expressing solidarity with the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, members of the…

Aarti Dhar, The Hindu, June 15, 2008 Their letter to Prime Minister is the latest in global support for gas victims NEW DELHI: Sixteen U.S. Congresspersons, led by Frank Pallone Jr, have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing support to Bhopal gas victims, and urged him to bring America-based Dow Chemical and Union Carbide…