The illegal trade in chemicals
<p>Chemicals provide important benefits to society and play a vital role in the global economy, but they also carry risks for the environment and human health, with greater risks to vulnerable social groups.
Toxic Wastes
-
The Bhopal legacy
This is the right time to ask the govt to rethink the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill
-
Victims press long pending demands for justice, dignity
Milind Ghatwai Bhopal: Seven organisations representing gas tragedy victims came together on one platform on Thursday to say that they expected the group of ministers (GoM) to address issues of justice and opportunities for a life of dignity for survivors.
-
Treatment for pollution from fire-fighting foam
Melbourne: An Australian team led by a scientist of Indian origin claims to have developed a groundbreaking solution for treating water and soil pollution from the toxic remnants of fire-fighting foam. Breakthrough
-
Govt panel on Bhopal to discuss Anderson's extradition today
More than two decades after the Bhopal gas tragedy, there is a renewed sense of hope that the government's empowered Group of Ministers (GoM) will look afresh at various issues which have been lying buried all these years. The issue of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson's extradition is expected to come up. Also on the agenda is greater compensation for the victims of the gas leak.
-
Bhopals Can of Worms
What is sorely missing is the political will to get to the truth behind such tragedies, says ERVELL E MENEZES
-
More than 25 years later, Bhopal still drinking poisoned water
Bhopal gas tragedy killed 20,000 people and scarred many for life. More than 25 year after the disaster, countless victims are still suffering due to neglect and callousness of authorities. Forget compensation, they don't even have access to clean drinking water. Here's a report on the state of the victims who are forced to drink toxic water, risking their lives with each drop:
-
Uranium, metals make Punjab toxic hotspot
Chemical, Radiation & Biological Toxicity Rampant, Says Study Balwant Garg | TNN Bathinda: After discovery of high levels of uranium in hair samples of a large number of mentally retarded children in Punjab
-
Colleges take up study on effects of water pollution
Kharar, June 13 Chandigarh Group of Colleges has undertaken an initiative to study effect of polluted water in the villages of Ferozepur district situated on Sutlej-Beas confluence. For this, water samples from the confluence as well as hand pumps of Rasulpur village of Makhu block in Ferozepur district have already been taken. Rasulpur village lies about 5-7 km from the Harike barrage.
-
The Bhopal verdict: Justice delayed, denied
25 years after Bhopal gas tragedy, the local court has convicted executives of Union Carbide & sentenced them to 2 years of imprisonment. In this interview on CNBC-TV18, Sunita Narain, Director-CSE and the supreme court advocates Prashant Bhushan & Mukul Rohatgi give their perspectives on the judgement & what it means for the affected communities.<br />
-
Verdict in Gas Tragedy
Twenty-five years after the worst industrial disaster in world history which claimed over 15,000 lives, Bhopal district court on Monday convicted eight people including former Union Carbide India chairman Keshub Mahindra in the Bhopal Gas tragedy case.