Category: News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical

Sahara Samey, 03 December 2007 Bhopal, Dec 3: With victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy still lacking adequate treatment and rehabilitation facilities, activists working for their cause have sought setting up of a National Commission to cater to their medical needs for the next 30 years. “They need specialised health care at least for…

Arijit Sen, CNN-IBN, December 03, 2007 New Delhi: Twenty-three years after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Dow Chemicals is back in India. The Gujarat government, which has been promoting Gujarat Alkalies, are all set to announce the setting up a unit in Dahej with Dow, right after the elections.

Arijit Sen, CNN-IBN, December 03, 2007 New Delhi: Petitions are doing the rounds of the seven IITs asking their directors to ban Dow Chemicals from campus. The company is thought to be responsible for the Bhopal gas tragedy that left over 3,000 people dead in December 1984.

IANS, December 3, 2007 Young engineers of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are refusing lucrative jobs at Dow Chemicals (which owns Union Carbide) on moral grounds, as the company has been held responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy that killed over 5,000 people and left thousands permanently disabled.

ANI, December 2, 2007 Bhopal: The victims of the world’s worst industrial disaster, the Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984, continue to battle the deadly diseases due to the side-affects of the toxic gas leaked from the pesticide plant 23 years ago. On the night of December 2, 1984, tonnes of a toxic gas leaked from…

AFP, December 2, 2007 BHOPAL, India — Hundreds of thousands of babies have been born in the years since a deadly gas billowed over Bhopal in 1984, but the survivors of that night say their children have been forever stunted by the tragedy.

IANS, Dec 2, 2007 Bhopal, Dec 2 – Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy observed a candle light vigil here on the eve of the 23rd anniversary Monday of one of the world’s worst industrial disasters.

UNI, December 01 2007 Bhopal — A monument of international standard would be constructed at the Union Carbide factory premises here in memory of the victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, which claimed thousand of lives and maimed several lakhs of people.

IANS, November 27, 2007 Bhopal — Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have decided to observe the 23rd anniversary of the disaster as ‘Black Day’. Leaders of the three organisations — Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh (BGPMSKS), Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha (BGPMPSM) and Bhopal Group for Information and Action (BGIA)…

Arijit Sen, CNN-IBN, November 25, 2007 New Delhi: Twenty-three years after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy left 3,000 people dead and thousands others affected, Union Carbide’s parent company, Dow Chemicals, is quietly trying to enter India but the IITs are putting their foot down.

Sreelatha Menon, Business Standard, November 25, 2007 23 years on, the decision on who’s going to clean it up is the subject of a court case Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, the country’s worst industrial mishap when 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas leaked from Union Carbide’s pesticide plant, continue to cope…

PAROMITA PAIN, The Hindu, Young World, November 23, 2007 December 3 is the 15th anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak. What can you do for those people who are still suffering the aftermath of the disaster? Photo: PTI. Long after the disaster: The agony continues. Another Children’s Day — another day of fun for some…

S. Anand, Tehelka, November 23, 2007 Union Carbide is now Dow Chemicals. Rid of the tainted name, it’s being wooed by both the Tatas and the PMO, reports S. ANAND We may overlook the element not listed on the chart… The missing element is the human element. —from Dow’s ad campaign ON DECEMBER 3, 1984,…

Baron & Budd, P.C., 21 November 2007 Press Release GALVESTON, Texas, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ — The law firm of Baron & Budd, P.C., is announcing an $8.2 million verdict handed down today in an asbestos lawsuit on behalf of an 73-year-old pipefitter from Texas City and his wife of more than 50 years. The verdict…

PAMELA TIMMS AND PRABAL KR DAS, The Scotsman, November 22 2007 CAMPAIGNERS last night accused the Indian government of betrayal as it prepared to welcome the company behind the Bhopal chemical disaster back to the country.