Category: News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical

Lalit K Jha, NDTV, April 12, 2008 New York — The ghost of Bhopal gas tragedy, which killed thousands of people on the morning of December 3, 1984 refuses to die down.

Mangalorean.com, April 8th, 2008 Washington, April 8 (IANS): A group of Indian Americans under the banner of Association for India’s Development protested outside the Indian Embassy here in support of the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak.

Sunil Raghu, Livemint, April 9th, 2008 Report says Beil stored much higher quantity of waste than permitted, ignored notice on its safety standards Ankleshwar, Gujarat: Initial investigations into a fire at an inflammable toxic waste treatment plant in Ankleshwar, Gujarat, show that the facility’s operator had ignored notices and warnings issued a month earlier by…

Business Standard, April 8th, 2008 A massive fire that consumed 120 tonne of unknown toxic wastes at Bharuch Environ Infrastructure’s (BEIL) toxic waste treatment and storage facility in Ankleshwar, Gujarat on April 3 has triggered calls from the survivors of the Bhopal Union Carbide gas disaster of 1980 against dumping the carbide waste anywhere in…

Praful Bidwai, Livemint, April 2, 2008 It’s a litmus test for India’s claim that it can deal with globalization without sacrificing vulnerable citizens More than 23 years after the world’s worst ever chemical industry accident at the Union Carbide Corp. pesticides plant in Bhopal, its victims are struggling to get a modicum of justice —…

Raghu Karnad, Tehelka Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 13, Dated April 5, 2008 The factory that killed 15,000 in 1984 is still poisoning new victims. As survivors march to Delhi, RAGHU KARNAD tells the chilling story of Bhopal’s ongoing disaster

Rama Lakshmi, Washington Post, March 29, 2008 Survivors of the 1984 gas leak at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, are in New Delhi to seek redress from Dow Chemical, which bought Union Carbide. NEW DELHI, March 28 — Twenty-three years after a Union Carbide chemical plant in India spewed poisonous gas in what…

AFP, Mar 28, 2008 A Bhopal gas tragedy survivor sits under a banner during the protest NEW DELHI (AFP) — Fifty survivors and victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak arrived in New Delhi on Friday after a 37-day march and demanded to meet the premier to seek a clean-up of toxic waste at the…

The following article refers to a legal opinion given by Congress spokesperson, and legal counsel for Dow Chemical, Abhishek Manu Singhvi that was discovered through Right To Information requests filed from Bhopal. Frontline, Volume 25 – Issue 07, Mar. 29-Apr. 11, 2008 BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY Veil of deception H. RAJAN SHARMA Dow and, by implication,…

March 26th, 2008, London — UK member of parliament Des Turner filed Early Day Motion 1266 in the Houses of Parliament, London, in express support of the aims of the Bhopal padyatra and dharna at Jantar Mantar.

Express news service, February 27, 2008 Pune, February 26 After facing road blockade for 40 days, the Dow Chemical Research and Development (R&D) centre took the help of State Reserve Police (SRP) to ferry three trucks to the construction site at Shinde village in Chakan on Tuesday. The villagers of Shinde and Vasuli had dug…

Economic Times, 25 Feb, 2008 PUNE: A proposed Research and Development facility of Dow India at a village near Pune has raised environmental concerns among social groups who have launched an agitation to press scrapping of the project.