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Prospect
December 7, 2017
A common reaction to mention of the Bhopal poison gas disaster is “I think I've heard of it, but wasn't it a long time ago?” Indeed, it was—in 1984 to be precise—but people are still suffering its after-effects. Worse, there has been a second poisoning: deadly chemicals left on the abandoned site are leachingÃÂ ...
The Wire
December 7, 2017
Aligarh: Victims of the Bhopal gas disaster continue to suffer damage in their DNA, a new study has revealed. Methyl isocyanate (MIC), which was released from the Union Carbide plant in December 1984, is known to damage human DNA by interacting with proteins. Such damage had been recorded inÃÂ ...
Eurasia Review
December 5, 2017
The Bhopal gas tragedy In India took place on December 3, 1984, which was around 33 years back and now stands as monument for the inhuman ... When Dow Chemicals took over Union Carbide, it knew about the suffering of the people due to the accident and it took over the exposure liabilities.
Millennium Post
December 5, 2017
With the wheels of justice still unmoved even after 33 years of the disaster, thousands of survivors and activists took to the streets to condemn ... Nawab Khan, president of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha, targeted the CBI saying that the agency has failed to make Dow Chemical,ÃÂ ...
Huffington Post India
December 4, 2017
The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident in India, considered the world's worst industrial disaster. It occurred on the night of 2-3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Over 500,000 people wereÃÂ ...
India Today
December 2, 2017
Post-midnight on December 3, 1984, poisonous gas that leaked from the factory of Union Carbide in Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal killed thousands of people directly. The incident is now known as the Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy. As per official records, the Bhopal gas tragedy killed 3,787ÃÂ ...
NewsClick
December 2, 2017
The following statement, issued by two organizations of victims of the Bhopal Gas Disaster of 1984, gives details of the harrowing condition of victims 33 ... control of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) – a U.S. multi-national company, which is currently wholly owned by the Dow Chemical Company, USA.
News18
December 1, 2017
Organizations representing survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy claimed that while the old city would be mourning the disaster on December 3, state ... under the Prime Minister has failed to make Dow Chemical, owner of absconding Union Carbide, appear in the Bhopal court in the last three years.”
Green Left Weekly
November 30, 2017
Also influencing Shiva was the Bhopal disaster of 1984, when the Union Carbide pesticide factory exploded, directly killing 3000 people and slowly ... The current merger of Monsanto, one of the biggest agro-chemical seed companies, with Bayer, one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies, will be aÃÂ ...
GovInsider
November 29, 2017
In 1984, a massive chemical leak from a pesticide factory left Bhopal's soil and water toxic, and killed nearly 4,000. The damage scarred the city's memory and it is determined to learn lessons. The Indian city is now known to be one of the greenest in the country, dotted with lakes and ancient monuments.
MilTech
November 16, 2017
Chemical Sensors market research report will educate buyer on past, current and ... A gas leakage can lead to massive disaster. In December 1984, leakage of methyl isocyanate in Bhopal was one of the worst industrial ...
International Business Times UK
November 16, 2017
Delhi smog not 'emergency' like Bhopal gas tragedy that killed over 20,000, says ... used the disastrous Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984 to make his point. ... referring to the industrial disaster at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) ... of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other toxic chemicals leaked out of the ...
The New Indian Express
November 8, 2017
BHOPAL: As many as five organisations working for the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster-affected people alleged that Bhopal gas relief and rehabilitation ... A chemical engineering expert-turned-social activist Satinath Sarangi from Bhopal ... Pakistan bus accident: 22 killed, 51 injured as bus falls into ravine.
Daily News & Analysis
November 2, 2017
... which they say should have been cleaned to avert the disaster. ... were left injured in a chemical factory explosion in Maharashtra's Thane and three ... the Bhopal accident in 1984, several such have occurred without proper ...
Hindustan Times
November 1, 2017
A deadly gas leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal in 1984 killed ... and 5,27,894 affected from the US firm, now owned by Dow Chemicals.
Charleston Gazette-Mail (blog)
October 14, 2017
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board blamed the explosion on “significant ... could easily have been a “catastrophe rivaling the Bhopal disaster.”.
Research Matters
October 12, 2017
A snapshot of disaster and management practices on International Day for Disaster Reduction ... biological disasters like epidemic diseases and chemical disasters. ... The Bhopal Gas tragedy in 1984, caused by toxic methyl isocyanate gas ...
RFI
October 10, 2017
Her Hindi-language film shot in Bhopal opened the fifth South Asian Film ... a widow by the Union Carbide chemical plant disaster of 1984.
Charleston Gazette-Mail
October 7, 2017
... “better advance the objectives of chemical accident prevention laws that ... of people in a 1984 leak at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India.
The Week UK
September 14, 2017
Victims from the Bhopal chemical disaster may never receive compensation ... factory in Bhopal, India in the early hours of 3 December 1984.
The Independent
September 14, 2017
Bhopal disaster victims may never get compensation following ... The two chemical giants completed the planned $130bn (£100bn) merger to form ... that appropriate justice for those affected by the 1984 deadly gas leak at the ... Bhopal: The legacy of the world's worst industrial accident lives on · Martin ...
The Quint
September 1, 2017
In Photos: Bhopal Gas Victims Penniless as Dow Bags Big Merger ... While the name of chemical giant Dow Chemical might not ring a bell, these ... that broke out 33 years ago in December 1984 – which is where Dow comes in. ... Officially, the disaster claimed over 3,000 lives and injured over five lakh.
BT.com
May 22, 2017
December 2, 1984: Chemical leak kills thousands in Bhopal ... The worst industrial disaster ever recorded occurred late on the evening of ...
The Diplomat
April 19, 2017
The epic disaster took place in Bhopal, the capital city of the central state of Madhya Pradesh, on the night of December 2-3, 1984.
The Atlantic
December 2, 2014
Thirty years ago, on the night of December 2, 1984, an accident at the Union ... chemical gas leak to a hospital in Bhopal on December 5, 1984.
The Hindu
December 31, 1999
Survivors of the Union Carbide gas leak disaster in Bhopal launched ... 1984, leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide chemical plant ...
The Indian Express
December 31, 1999
More than three decades after the Bhopal gas disaster, a former plant ... by the deadly gas leak in the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984, ...
The New Times
March 27, 2017
In 1984, a pesticide-manufacturing plant in Bhopal, India, released 27 tons of methyl isocyanate, a gas used to produce some pesticides.
Little Atoms
March 17, 2017
In 2004, the duo contacted BBC news pretending to be from Dow Chemical, the American chemical corporation who own Union Carbide India Limited whose plant was the site of the Bhopal disaster - one of the deadliest gas leaks in history. Dow have never ...
BBC News
March 14, 2017
And, before the year had ended, thousands of people in the city of Bhopal had been killed after toxic gases leaked from a chemical factory, the world's worst industrial accident. In a wounded nation, a young pilot shone as an unlikely beacon of hope.
The Daily Breeze
February 27, 2017
... safety of others" as well as the existence of "unsafe conditions, inadequate safety mechanisms and carelessness." An accidental release of chemicals could cause a "disaster of Bhopal-like proportions," the lawsuit concluded, referring to the 1984 ...
Youth Ki Awaaz
February 24, 2017
The US based Dow Chemical Company and its subsidiary Union Carbide have been criticised for not appearing in a Bhopal Court for facing criminal charges related to the 1984 gas leak disaster. Jammu and Kashmir: Citing "a range of human rightsÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 14, 2017
Activists have called the tragedy India's "secret Bhopal" - a reference to the 1984 disaster when toxic gas leaked from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal. Unlike Bhopal, where victims were concentrated in the shantytown around the factory, victims in ...
KALW
February 14, 2017
1961 - Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California. 1989 - Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
WUWM
January 26, 2017
In December of 1984, a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide leaked poisonous gas and chemicals into the environment in and around Bhopal, India. The Indian government's figures show the disaster killed more than 3,000 people and injured more thanÃÂ ...
Live Law
January 13, 2017
The order came as part of the proceedings against Dow Chemical to make Union Carbide Corporation, USA, its wholly owned subsidiary, appear in the ongoing criminal case on the disaster of 1984 which has killed over 25000 people. Representatives ofÃÂ ...
EP Magazine
January 11, 2017
Congress established the Toxics Release Inventory in 1986 to inform the public about the release of sometimes carcinogenic chemicals (such as benzene) from industries in the wake of the deadly 1984 Bhopal disaster in India, in which toxic gases killedÃÂ ...
Earthworks (blog)
January 6, 2017
Congress established the Toxics Release Inventory in 1986 to inform the public about the release of sometimes carcinogenic chemicals (such as benzene) from industries in the wake of the deadly 1984 Bhopal disaster in India, in which toxic gases killedÃÂ ...
The Echo of India
December 8, 2016
The Bhopal gas tragedy is still killing and maiming people due to poisoning of groundwater from reckless dumping of toxic waste by Union Carbide during its 14 years of operation prior to the disaster, five organizations said on November 30. "The MP ...
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
December 7, 2016
Recently some scientists in China made a detailed study of pollution in Beijing, compared their findings to the London disaster's, and figured it out: Nitrogen dioxide from coal smoke facilitated the conversion of sulfur dioxide in fog to, ultimately ...
India West
December 7, 2016
4, 1984 shows relatives of victims of the Bhopal tragedy. ... 3 in front of the now-defunct Union Carbide factory here on the 32nd anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster, with activists alleging that toxic waste lying there was still to ...
The Siasat Daily
December 5, 2016
Bhopal: On the occasion of 32nd anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world's worst industrial catastrophe, the flag of United States of America, (USA), and the logos of two Corporations: Dow Chemical and Union Carbide, would be torched by the ...
DailyO
December 4, 2016
Associations and unions that have been battling for the Bhopal gas tragedy victims have highlighted that the disaster is still ongoing and the generations conceived after the incident show traces of the poisonous gas in their body in the form of ...
Eurasia Review
December 2, 2016
Church leaders working in the central Indian city of Bhopal that witnessed a horrendous industrial accident 32 years ago say children continue to be born with deformities but their offer for help is not welcomed.
National Geographic
December 2, 2016
I know the words that she can use, but they will never fully articulate the horrific, gruesome, tragic images depicting the event of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster, considered by many to be the world's worst industrial disaster. I too grew up with images ...
Mail & Guardian
December 1, 2016
After the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in 1986, nuclear reactors were modified and changes were made to the technology. The 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy in India resulted in chemicals companies increasing budgets for health, safety and environmentalÃÂ ...
The Hindu
December 1, 2016
The Bhopal gas tragedy is considered the world's worst industrial disaster. Minutes after midnight on December 2, 1984 people felt a sharp pricking sensation in the throat followed by coughing and difficulty in breathing. A few people who were awake ...
Hindustan Times
December 1, 2016
Bhopal, after all, had a long and painful relationship with Anderson, one that began on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984, when 40 tonnes of toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas was accidentally released from the Union Carbide plant in the city ...
Web India 123
November 30, 2016
Ahead of the 32nd anniversary of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy on Saturday, five voluntary organisations working for the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster today said that the tragedy continues to affect subsequent generations. In a release issued ...
News18
November 30, 2016
Bhopal: Five organisations fighting for the rights of victims of the Bhopal gas leak disaster on Wednesday decided to burn the American flag on the 32nd anniversary of the tragedy because of the "irresponsible behaviour of the US government".
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