Category: News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical
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CIC asks Central Bureau of Investigation on why Anderson was not grilled
New Delhi, June 20, Deccan Herald News Service – DHNS: The Central Information Commission (CIC) on Monday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to provide reasons for not interrogating Warren M Anderson, the then chairman of the Union Carbide Corporation and accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, during his visit to the country…
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‘Experience of the rough end of the global capitalist system’: From Bhopal to Rossport, Ireland
In Rossport an international solidarity meeting hears from activists of the Choctaw Nation, from Guatemala and from the campaign for justice in Bhopal A MEETING IN MAYOMay 24, 2011From Indy Media Last week, while a near-bankrupt Irish state provided the spectacle of two visits from members of the transnational ruling class, Elizabeth Windsor and Barack…
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Bhopal Activists find Solidarity in Ireland
from http://www.indymedia.ie/article/99866 A MEETING IN MAYO Last week, while a near-bankrupt Irish state provided the spectacle of two visits from members of the transnational ruling class, Elizabeth Windsor and Barack Obama, visitors from the other end of the global class system also came to Ireland. On Sunday night some 50 people assembled in Glenmoy Community Hall…
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Govt’s 14-yr slumber, survivors’ hopes dim
From The Pioneer, at thedailypioneer.com May 12, 2011 7:59:27 AM Abraham Thomas | New Delhi The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the curative petition filed by the Centre in Bhopal gas tragedy seeking enhancement of charge against the accused persons from death caused by negligence (IPC Section 304A) to a much harsher culpable homicide…
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Economic Times: Judiciary not with Bhopal victims, CBI failed: Activists
Economic TimesMay 11, 2011 NEW DELHI/BHOPAL: The judiciary has heaped more injustice on victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, activists said Wednesday after the apex court's decision to reject the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea for more stringent punishment to the seven accused. Some said it was a "black day" and squarely blamed…
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Bhopal gas survivors protest against unethical drug trial
Thursday February 24, 2011 09:44:53 PM, Pervez Bari, ummid.com Bhopal: Survivors of the December 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, world’s worst industrial catastrophe, led by the representatives of five NGOs working for their welfare on Thursday marched to the Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre, (BMHRC), the hospital meant for free treatment of the gas…
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Illegal drug trials killed 10 Bhopal gas victims
Mail Today Science Bureau | New Delhi, February 11, 2011 Mrs. Salma Bi, the widow of late Mr. Nasir Khan, a victim of December 1984 Bhopal gas disaster who died of drug trial, narrating her woes to newsmen Ten victims of the Gas Leak in Bhopal have died during unethical drug trials being conducted among gas…
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CNN-IBN: Cancer rates in Bhopal
Bhopal gas tragedy: cancer rates treble http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bhopal-gas-tragedy-cancer-rates-treble/146063-3.html Click the link above to view the video corresponding to this piece. Mumbai: It was undoubtedly the world’s worst industrial disaster but 26 years on, the skeletons of the past still haunt the population. The Indian Council of Medical Research has carried out more than 18 studies on…
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Dow kicked out of Trade Fair after Bhopalis Protest
Aquatech Dissociates With Dow After Bhopalis Protest “Dow need not pour money into such conferences to sell its water technologies, instead it should just accept the liability of Bhopal, clean up the toxic wastes and contaminated groundwater. It would get the clean image it is so looking forward to. " – Nawab Khan, ICJB, Press…
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ESPN Coverage of Bhopal Pollution
ESPN E60: The Children of Bhopal [Nov 9, 2010] (13:19) Original post: http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/video_audio/486751.html “Kids in this Indian city play cricket to try to escape the squalor around them, but the fields where they play have a deadly past.” November 14, 2010
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Dow AgroSciences blacklisted for bribing
The following article was published on September 18: The Economic Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre has blacklisted Dow AgroSciences India for five years for bribing government officials to expedite registration of three pesticides in the country. The order to ban Dow AgroSciences, a subsidiary of US-based Dow Chemicals, from undertaking any commercial activity in…
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September 24-26: 6th Annual North American Bhopal Conference
Participation and Enthusiasm Mark the 6th Annual Bhopal Conference at MIT Cambridge, Massachusetts—The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) hosted its 6th Annual North American Conference this past weekend to discuss ongoing health and environmental issues in Bhopal, India. To this day acute and chronic toxic contamination from the disaster has left 25,000 dead,…
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Dow Agro: company faces ban on bribery charge
NEW DELHI: Dow AgroSciences India Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of Dow Chemicals, is likely to be blacklisted by the government following its persistent refusal to respond to show-cause notices over charges of bribery. The agriculture ministry had asked the company why action should not be initiated against it for bribing officials to push three sub-standard…
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Hindustan Times: Dow Chemicals’ project to be shifted out of Pune
Dow Chemicals’ project to be shifted out of Pune Ketaki Ghoge, Hindustan Times Mumbai, September 08, 2010 The Rs 400-crore controversial research and development centre proposed by one of the largest chemical makers in the US, Dow Chemical Co, will be shifted out from its current location in Chakan near Pune. The company wrote to…
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Select Media coverage 1996-2010
November 30, 1996 Bhopal Lives, SUKETU MEHTAvisits Bhopal twelve years after the gas disaster and brings back several carefully and compassionately observed cameos of life as it lived there now, under the shadow of the gas cloud. The Village Voice August 2, 1999 The Slow Poison Factory After the gas, it’s toxic waste. Bhopal can’t…