Court postpones hearing against Dow Chemical for the 37th time
Court yet to initiate criminal liability case against the multinational company in the Bhopal gas leak case; charge-sheet was filed in 1987
The most comprehensive film on Bhopal
The Supreme Court ruled recently, in reference to Beyond Genocide, a film on the Bhopal gas disaster, that Doordarshan cannot curtail the …
Subterranean Leak
The CSE tests had found high levels of groundwater and soil contamination in and around the Union Carbide factory
Lethal landscape
India has 134 contaminated hazardous sites and another 192 'probable' contaminated hazardous sites, which includes seven sites around the …
Bhopal: 38 years ago, while the world slept, its worst industrial disaster unfolded in the heart of India
Anil Agarwal, founder of Centre for Science and Environment and founder editor of Down To Earth, was in Bhopal immediately after the tragedy. …
Gassing the truth
More than a decade after the Bhopal gas disaster, the data collected from those exposed to the gas remains shrouded in mystery
Bhopal revisited
The government department to provide relief to the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy may be closed down
14 Years Later..
...there's a Bhopal waiting to happen in the nooks and corners of the country. But the government is yet to take the right steps to ensure the …
India’s flip-flop on London Olympics
Sports ministry yet to take a decision on boycott after Bhopal tragedy victims’ outcry
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 5, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Bhopal: 38 years later, fungal diseases rise among survivors in telling sign of flawed healthcare
Over the last 20 years, 1,175 cases were recorded, of which 670 were from the last five years alone, per the records of Sambhavna Clinic
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 27, 2020)
Justice remains mirage for Bhopal gas victims
Nearly eight years after the Bhopal gas disaster, the legal battle over a settlement continues. But for the efforts of public interest agencies …
Sick berth
The Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre has done little for the long-term treatment of gas victims
BHOPAL: the bad dream continues
Bhopal is a metaphor for disaster, industrial and human. It has been the object of much speculation and typically endless litigation. A case …
Guilty, but bailed
Seven Union Carbide officials get two-year jail term for Bhopal gas leak that has killed 20,000
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 22, 2022)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 9, 2023)
The light bulb moment
Citing energy efficiency and durability, industry has put LED lights on a pedestal. But is it really time to bid adieu to CFL and the humble …
A change in scene
Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have filed a lawsuit in the US against Union Carbide Corporation and its former head Warren Anderson
Bhopal waste to be disposed of in the sea?
Taking cue from disposal of chemical weapons in 2009, Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee suggests incinerating the waste on a floating …
US court frees Union Carbide of liability in Bhopal gas disaster case
Company need not pay for environmental remediation or pollution-related claims, says district judge
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 12, 2022)
Bhopal becomes first Indian city to track progress towards meeting SDGs
Bhopal Municipal Corporation, UN-Habitat, others collaborate for voluntary local reviews to track the progress towards the 2030 Agenda
Poison, unlimited: India's chemicals industry remains dangerously
India has failed to come up with effective legislations for its chemical industry even 35 years after the Bhopal tragedy
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