Category: News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical

Boyd Tonkin, The Independent, A Week in Books Published: 17 August 2007 August sees a seasonal outbreak of head-scratching and site-searching as panicky critics, editors, retailers and bookies rush to discover more about the lesser-known novels on the Man Booker long-list. Quite rightly, in an art form now subject to a crass star system, the…

Vibha Sharma, Tribune News Service New Delhi, August 12 It was an award ceremony with a difference. The “Dalal Foundation”, formed just around 15 days ago by Bhopal survivors’ organisations, yesterday presented “Mir Zafar awards for treachery” to top politicians and bureaucrats of the country in a dramatised version, peppered with satire.

Pankaj Chaudhary, dailyindia.com New Delhi, Aug.12: Bhopal gas tragedy victims observed the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Plassey by conferring on Mir Jafar awards on a dozen of politicians and well-known personalities from different walks of life here on Saturday.

Gargi Rawat, NDTV.com Sunday, August 12, 2007 (New Delhi) Commerce Minister Kamal Nath and Finance Minister P Chidambaram have been given the Mir Zaffar Award as a symbol of their betrayal of the Bhopal gas tragedy victims. NGOs fighting for the victims have instituted the awards in the name of Mir Zafffar, who had sold…

OneIndia, August 04 2007 Bhopal, Aug 4 (UNI) Chief Judicial Magistrate Ajay Srivastava’s court today heard arguments on an application by the prosecution in a criminal case related to the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy, which claimed thousands of lives and maimed several lakhs of people. The next hearing in the case has been fixed on…

Mahendra Kumar Singh & Bisheshwar Mishra, Times of India, 4 Aug 2007 NEW DELHI: Even as the PMO is working to facilitate investments by chemicals giant Dow in India by resolving the issue of its ‘legal liability’ in the Bhopal gas tragedy, a group of 20 US Senators have pleaded that Dow be held responsible…

JAYANTA ROY CHOWDHURY, Calcutta Telegraph, July 30, 2007 New Delhi, July 29: The Centre may not be able to let Dow Chemicals shrug off responsibility for cleaning up the toxic residue left behind by the Bhopal gas disaster. A note being prepared by the ministry of chemicals and fertilisers is expected to argue against letting…

Economic Times, G Ganapathy Subramaniam & Gireesh Chandra Prasad, TNN, 27 Jul, 2007 Editor’s note: The following story signals a potentially key event in Bhopal’s long fight for justice and economic and environmental rehabilitation. If the PMO files caught numerous Indian officials en flagrante with Dow, the following news signals preliminary plans for a shotgun…

OneIndia, July 27, 2007 Babulal Gaur is referring to surface wastes, and not the thousands of tonnes of underground wastes feeding poison into local aquifers(ed.). Bhopal, July 27 (UNI) The Madhya Pradesh government has provided Rs 2 crore for removing the chemical waste left out on the premises of the Union Carbide’s pesticide plant after…

Olga Trellis, The Asian Age, July 18, 2007 Mumbai, July 18: Dow Chemical chairman Andrew Liveris has in a letter to Indian ambassador to the United States Ronen Sen tried to enlist his support to get the Union ministry of chemicals and fertilisers to drop its demand for the payment of Rs 100 crores as…

Olga Trellis, The Asian Age, July 17th, 2007 Mumbai, July 17: The Indian government has been quietly trying to facilitate the entry into the country of Dow Chemical, now the parent company of Union Carbide. New Delhi appears to take the view that Dow Chemical bears no responsibility for the December 1984 gas tragedy at…

The Hindu, July 12, 2007 Signs of surprising efficiency within the government of India? Within two weeks of the ICJB releasing the PMO Files, Montek Singh, one of the officials exposed as a conspirator, declares that the Tata plan to bail out Dow has been shelved… New delhi, PTI, July 12: Industry doyen Ratan Tata…

MAHESH L , NANDITTA CHIBBER, Down to Earth, July 11th, 2007 The controversial move by the Madhya Pradesh government to incinerate some waste from the the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal has met with stiff opposition. Civil society groups have strongly criticised the plan to take the waste to an incinerator in Gujarat. They say…

The story below about the Dow bribery scandal that we published back in May now looks more than a little ironic. Even as the Indian government was promising action against Dow Chemical to members of the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of India’s Parliament, its officials were deeply involved with trying to get the chemical…