Category: News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical
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Booker-shortlisted novelist begins hunger strike over Bhopal
Randeep Ramesh, The Guardian, June 12, 2008 Indra Sinha, the author of a Booker-shortlisted novel set in the aftermath of the tragedy of the world’s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, yesterday began an indefinite hunger strike in support of survivors protesting against “government indifference” over their plight. Sinha, a longtime supporter of the Bhopal campaign,…
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CPI condemns custodial violence against Bhopalis; Urges Government address Bhopal Demands Immediately
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangi Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action PRESS RELEASE NEW DELHI, 12 JUNE, 2008 — Talking to the media at the Bhopal dharna sthal in Jantar Mantar, CPI National Secretary D. Raja said: “I have raised the Bhopal issue in parliament and…
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Bhopal gas victims begin hunger strike
The Hindu, June 11, 2008 NEW DELHI: Nine activists, including survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster and victims of water contamination, began a hunger strike here on Tuesday. The activists said the statement by Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Prithviraj Chavan on the setting up of an empowered commission for rehabilitation…
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'Gallery of the Good' – Dow stretches credulity till it snaps
Comments 12 Jun 2008 20:01 Telling lies beautifully does not make them true My earlier comment on this subject appears to have been deleted. No doubt a mistake. Don’t worry, the whole story is already in the Guardian newspaper and will shortly be in a lot of other places. What I said was that Dow’s…
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Bhopal gas victims go on indefinite hunger strike
ANI, June 11, 2008 New Delhi, June 11 (ANI): Victims of Bhopal gas tragedy have gone on an indefinite hunger strike to pressurize the government to give into their demands. Satinath Sarangi, member of the Bhopal Group for Information Action said, “We will end our hunger strike only after we win our demands.” The victims…
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Novelist begins hunger strike over Bhopal
Lindesay Irvine, The Guardian, June 11, 2008 Indra Sinha, author of Animal’s People, has begun a hunger strike in New Delhi to protest the neglect of Bhopal disaster survivors Indra Sinha … ‘I hope that people will look at what’s happening in Bhopal with new eyes’. Photograph: Guardian/Martin Godwin Indra Sinha, author of a Booker-shortlisted…
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Bhopal Gas Holocaust Survivors Continue Hunger Strike
News Post India, June 11, 2008 Bhopal gas leak tragedy survivors, who have dismissed the prime minister’s promise to set up a rehabilitation council for them and started a hunger strike in the capital to press their demands, continued their agitation Wednesday. Nine survivors, who are victims of water contamination in the aftermath of the…
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Bhopal protestors stage die-in at PMO: Announce global hunger strike
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationary Karamchari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action **LATEST NEWS** Thirty six Bhopalis, including 13 children and 20 women, were arrested today at 345 p.m. after they staged a die-in in front of the Prime Minister’s Office in South Block. Arriving by walk,…
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MP minister quits after raids in ‘fake drug purchase’
Ajay Vishnoi was acting chief of the Bhopal Gas Relief and Rehabilitation Department when resigning over the following corruption scandal… Milind Ghatwai, Indian Express, June 3, 2008 Scandal Health Commissioner also resigns after allegations of official-builder-supplier nexus BHOPAL, JUNE 2: Madhya Pradesh Health Minister Ajay Vishnoi, whose department has come under a cloud with the…
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From a Government without a heart
Bhopal dharna diary, May 29, 2008 This morning, we got half of what we came here for. Prithviraj Chavan, representing the Prime Minister’s Office, came to the dharna sthal and read a statement conveying the Government’s in-principle agreement to our demand for the Empowered Commission. This is a huge first step. The Commission would ensure…
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Bhopal survivors send PM an urgent letter
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationary Karamchari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action May 31, 2008 Press Statement Organizations representing survivors and victims of water contamination in Bhopal today sent a letter to the Prime Minister clarifying that their demands for legal action against Dow Chemical and Union…
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Bhopal gas tragedy: Case against Dow won’t be withdrawn
Times of India, May 30, 2008 NEW DELHI: The Union government on Thursday bowed to pressure from the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy activists and accepted their demand for setting up a specially empowered commission to carry out medical, economic, social and environmental rehabilitation of the gas victims. Prithviraj Chavan, minister for state in the PMO,…
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Govt continues to gas Bhopal victims
The Economic Times, May 30, 2008 NEW DELHI: The government has finally lent an ear to the victims of Bhopal gas tragedy. But coming after 25 years it’s certainly a case of too little too late. The government has accepted “in principle” their demand to set up a commission to carry out medical, economic, social…
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Commission to rehabilitate Bhopal gas victims to be set up
Aarti Dhar, The Hindu, May 30, 2008 Centre will take initiative soon to work out modalities Committees on various rehabilitation aspects will be subsumed Drinking water from Kolar reservoir for localities around Carbide plant by year-end NEW DELHI: The Centre has agreed “in principle” to set up an empowered commission to rehabilitate the survivors and…
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Commission for Bhopal grievances
Chris Morris, BBC News, March 29, 2008 PLEASE CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE BBC’S FILM The Indian government says it will set up a commission to examine some of the grievances of victims of the world’s worst industrial disaster. The gas leak in the city of Bhopal in 1984 claimed thousands of lives.…