Tag: Bhopal Gas Tragedy
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Waste Removed, Scars Remain: Bhopal Gas Survivors Demand Justice for 40 Years of Poison
Nearly four decades after the Bhopal disaster, toxic waste removal efforts fall short, leaving survivors exposed to contaminated resources. Environmentalists argue that relocating hazardous waste to Pithampur creates new dangers for an already polluted region. Calls for corporate accountability intensify as activists demand that Dow Chemical bear the cost of a comprehensive cleanup
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Bhopal’s Heartache: Election Results Day Clashes with Gas Tragedy Anniversary Ignites Outcry
Bhopal: The Election Commission of India is all set to announce the results of four state assembly elections together on December 3. As the political parties anxiously await the results in line with the predictions and exit polls, the anticipation among the voters is also visible. However, the choice of the result announcement date has sparked…
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Bhopal Gas Disaster: A Case Study in the Failure of Environmental Regulation
Bhopal, Jabalpur, New Delhi: The morning on a day in the year 1974 dawned clear and sunny as the cattle belonging to residents of Chola area strayed into the area of a pool fed by a rubber pipe issuing from the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL, Bhopal was then under the control of Union Carbide…
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Has specialized medical and research establishment of BMHRC’s approach to Bhopal gas victims failed?
Bhopal: At 8:30 clock one morning, during the monsoon season of 2023, Aqeel Ahmed (43) with the support of a walking stick arrived on the premises of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital Research Centre (BMHRC), Bhopal, India. Even though he used a walking stick, Aqeel limited his walk. He watched his steps to evade any accident.…
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Jawan SRK does everything he could to fight the dark times
Hundreds of films are made, therefore many become heroes. A lot of them become popular but only a handful scale the height needed to carry the entire industry on his shoulders. Still less become so big as to influence not just the industry but the society he breathes in, the country he lives in. Even…
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Rs 5.26 per day is what Bano Bi, a Bhopal gas victim gets as compensation
Bhopal, Jabalpur, New Delhi: Imagine a street corner in Bhopal full of victims of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 02/03 December 1984, who received compensation: chatting, laughing, exchanging notes on the price rise affecting their pockets. Imagine footpaths spilling over with old and young survivors of the tragedy watching the world go by as they sip…
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What’s it like to survive as a daughter of a Bhopal disaster victim in Gas Vidhwa colony?
Bhopal: It is easy to spot the painted glass on the window panels from a distance, but not the curtains on flat number L-102 in the unmaintained Motilal Nehru Nagar, better known as Gas-Vidhwa (Gas Widows’) colony in Bhopal. The so-called Gas Widows’ colony, a multistory slum with 2,486 one and two-bedroom apartments, was built…
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What now for the Bhopal gas tragedy victims that policymakers failed to see?
Bhopal: December 3, 1984, 9:00 am. Nagar Nigam (Bhopal Municipal Corporation), Central Store, Sadar Manzil, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Shankar Rao was on emergency duty in the central room store of Bhopal Municipal Corporation located in Sadar Manzil. Storekeeper workers are the lowest in the municipality hierarchy. Rao was the one who was alone at that…
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Why action came too slowly to treat victims of Bhopal gas tragedy?
Bhopal, Jabalpur, New Delhi: The entire stretch from Karbide Karkhana (Union Carbide Plant) to Hamidia Asptaal (Gandhi Medical College – largest hospital of the Indian state – Madhya Pradesh) facing Taj-ul-Masajid one of the largest mosques in India was split over with hundreds of people struggling to breathe and bodies with froth and foam settled…
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Why first to be widowed by Union Carbide was unable to get PM report of her husband
Bhopal: Sajida Bano, who was the first to be widowed by Union Carbide’s in 1981 may have escaped the traditional widowhood sufferings, but was unable to escape from being a marginalized widow because of weak social institutions, stemming from lax rule of law, malfunctioning bureaucracy and prevailing corruption. Her story begins on the night of…