Category: Shameless
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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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Saare jahan se Nchha
Nityanand Jayaraman, Hindustan Times, May 22, 2008 For those passing by 7 Race Course Road on Wednesday, a wet day in the national capital, a strange scene may have greeted them outside the Prime Minister’s residence. People had chained themselves to the railings of the perimeter gate of the PM’s residence and before too long,…
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CPI slams UPA for failure to constitute Bhopal commission
Zee News, May 22, 2008 New Delhi, May 22: Criticising the UPA for its “failure” to form a high-powered commission to redress the grievances of Bhopal gas tragedy victims, the CPI on Thursday said such a government has “no moral right to continue in office which cannot work for its people”. “The UPA government’s attitude…
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Arrested Bhopal Activists Released; UPA Govt has lost moral right to power: D. Raja, Abani Roy say
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action NEW DELHI, 22 May, 2008 — In a turn of events, 22 Bhopalis, including 15 women and 6 youngsters, who were arrested yesterday for chaining themselves to the Prime Minister’s house were released today without…
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A heartless PM?
Mail Today, May 22, 2008 IT is quite disturbing to note that the country’s Prime Minister has no time to meet a group of innocent women and children suffering due to the toxic legacy of the worst ever industrial disaster in modern history. That too when this group of hapless people walked all the way…
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India Police Detain 62 Protesters Over 1984 Gas-Leak Disaster
Muneeza Naqvi, AP, May 21, 2008 NEW DELHI (AP)–Indian police detained 62 protesters calling for a cleanup of the 1984 Bhopal industrial disaster as they demonstrated near the prime minister’s official residence Wednesday, an organizer said. Some of the protesters had walked nearly 800 kilometers from the site of a toxic gas leak at a…
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`Second Bhopal disaster is govt-Created`
Sreelatha Menon, Business Standard, May 18, 2008 Q&A: Satinath Sarangi Satinath Sarangi of the Bhopal Group for Information and Action tells SREELATHA MENON that activists made a mistake by delaying raising the issue of removal of the 8,000 tonnes of toxic waste from Union Carbide’s Bhopal plant. Where were you when the 1984 disaster in…
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Dow Investors Request SEC Investigation on Lack of Dow Disclosure
For Immediate Release Wednesday, May 14, 2008 INDIAN GOVERNMENT’S “SMOKING GUN” MEMORANDUM REVEALS: PURPORTED $1 BILLION DOW CHEMICAL INVESTMENT IN INDIA WOULD BE SUBJECT TO ANY LIABILITIES FOR CONTINUED BHOPAL SOIL AND WATER CONTAMINATION ————————- Dow CEO’s Request for Liability Shield Appears Rebuffed ———————— Washington, DC – A group of investors wrote to the Securities…
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`Action has been taken`
Sreelatha Menon, Business Standard, May 2, 2008 On its part, Dow Chemicals has said the “issue has been thoroughly investigated and disciplinary action taken”. “Some individuals did not follow Dow’s Code of Business Conduct and we will not tolerate employees who engage in unethical behavior. Once we learned of this situation involving a joint-venture subsidiary…
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Bhopal victims present ‘clinching’ proof of apathy
The Hindu, April 30, 2008 Children of gas-hit parents continue to suffer from disorders NEW DELHI: Parents of children from Bhopal with serious birth defects presented what they claimed to be evidence of the Government’s criminal negligence towards the next generation of Union Carbide victims at a press conference here on Tuesday. Present at the…
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‘Generation-next’ Bhopal victims accuse govt of criminal negligence
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationary Karamachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action 29th-April-2008 At a press conference in New Delhi today, parents of five children with congenital birth defects from Bhopal presented their case of criminal negligence of the Indian government towards the next generation of victims…
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Bhopalis Protest Agri Ministry Inaction on Dow Bribery Scandal
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information & Action PRESS RELEASE banned in the US, sold freely in India after Dow’s bribes secured its registration NEW DELHI, 25 APRIL, 2008 — Thirty survivors of the Bhopal Gas disaster, staged a die-in in front of…
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The ultimate constitutional and human rights obscenity
Prof Upendra Baxi April 23, 2008 The Bhopal -violated and long- suffering humanity justly continue to claim their human rights, to voice their saga of suffering, contending the cruel and predatory ways of Indian governance. They do a great service in reminding us that Indian governance cannot continue as if internationally and constitutionally proclaimed human…
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Govt hand in glove with Dow Chemicals, say lawyers and retired judges
Express news service, April 24, 2008 Pune, April 23: Around 280 legal professionals, including retired judges and eminent lawyers from Pune and the state have submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister stating that the attempts by the Prime Minister’s office to grant immunity to Dow Chemical from its Bhopal liabilities are unconstitutional and illegal.…
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Memo on Bhopal: lawyers, retired judges question ‘immunity’ to Dow
Express News Service, April 22, 2008 NEW DELHI, APRIL 21: More than 200 retired judges and lawyers have signed a memorandum that says that the attempts made by the Government to grant “immunity” to Dow Chemical from its Bhopal liabilities are “unconstitutional and illegal”. The memorandum alleges that the Central Government is colluding with Dow…