Global gender gap report 2023
The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival,
Politics
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Did Emergency allow Carbide to produce MIC in India?
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Did the Emergency allow the Indira Gandhi government to ignore the concerns of Union Industry Ministry officials in allowing Union Carbide to produce methyl isocyanate-based pesticides in India?
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New ray of hope for gas victims
There is renewed hope for the gas victims as people across the country have become one with their cause and are expressing outrage over denial of justice and the manoeuvres of those in authority in Bhopal who had allowed the then Union Carbide Corporation chief Warren Anderson to escape to America when the city was struck by the worst industrial catastrophe in December 1984.
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MP govt seeks legal opinion on reinvestigation
New Delhi: Amid the controversies surrounding the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict, the Madhya Pradesh Government is taking legal opinion on whether it can re-investigate the whole case, including the exit of the then Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson. It is also considering the possibility of filing a review petition against dilution of charges against convicts in the gas leak case.
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Dishonesty, fraud, breach of trust
IN the first official response from the Gov ernment on the Warren Anderson issue Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee ha put the onus squarely on former Madhy Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh.
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Congress faces flak on Bhopal gas leak verdict
The Congress today found itself hemmed in by attacks from within and outside with its leaders blaming the then party governments at the Centre and Madhya Pradesh over the escape of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson after the gas leak in December 1984.
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Digvijay Singh again: US pressure freed Anderson
Political Bureau New Delhi: Under attack from the Opposition BJP for freeing former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson within hours of his arrest in December 1984 for the Bhopal gas leak disaster, the ruling Congress took a direct hit on Thursday from its own when party general secretary Digvijay Singh said that Anderson was released
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Resolve water disputes, says Karunanidhi
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Sunday urged the Centre to uphold its responsibility for resolving water disputes the State had with neighbours such as Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka in the interests of maintaining national unity and integrity.
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How did the Indian Forest Rights Act, 2006, emerge?
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, (Forest Rights Act or just FRA hereafter), enacted by the Indian Parliament in 2006, did not emerge from unproblematic and consensual deliberations. Rather the struggle to pass the act, and to keep the key elements intact, was fraught with intense contestation. Central
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Probe into mining scam will land CM in jail
''Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, Reddy brothers and Opposition Leader in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj would land up in jail, if a CBI inquiry was conducted into the mining scam,'' said Legislative Council Opposition former leader V S Ugrappa.