Judge requires Dow Chemical to show cause why it should not be named as an accused in the on-going criminal case in Bhopal in place of its absconding 100% owned subsidiary Union Carbide By Neil Hodge, writing for World Socialist By the end of the month, the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court in Bhopal, India, will [...]
Reprinted from The Hindu – Kalpana Sharma A two-page press release, issued on June 23 by the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, marked the end of a week of high drama. It stated that the Government of India had no objection to a U.S. Federal Court asking Union Carbide to clean up the mess it [...]
The following press statement was issued by the Government of India at 4.30pm today: PRESS INFORMATION BUREAUGOVERNMENT OF INDIA—— PRESS NOTE The Government of India have decided to convey the “No Objection” to the US Court of Appeals to consider environmental contamination claims unrelated to the Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster as defined in section 2(a) [...]
INDIAN GOVERNMENT BOWS TO PRESSURE, AGREES TO SUBMIT STATEMENT TO U.S. COURT IN THE UNION CARBIDE-BHOPAL CONTAMINATION CLEAN UP CASE. New Delhi, June 23, 2004: Six days after three Bhopal activists began their hunger strike, the Government of India finally bowed to pressure and agreed to submit a statement to the New York District Court [...]
New Delhi, June 22, 2004:With just seven days left for the Union Government to send a positive communication to the US District Court in the Bhopal contamination clean up case , several major trade unions of India have decided to swing into action. They have pledged to raise this matter with the Prime Minister of [...]
ONLY EIGHT DAYS LEFT FOR THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT TO WRITE TO THE US COURT IN THE BHOPAL CLEANUP CASE: LAW MINISTRY MOVES THE CASE TO THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS New Delhi, June 21, 2004: On the 4th day of the hunger strike by three Bhopal activists at Jantar Mantar, and with just eight [...]
About 10 people from AID gathered in front of the Indian Embassy in DC. We got all set up around noon. In the meantime security officers of the Indian Embassy were doing their job, trying to inquire where were from. We held posters saying “Remember Bhopal” and No more Bhopal. The security guard was pretty [...]
New Delhi, June 20, 2004: As the last day for the Indian Government to send a letter to the US Federal Court in New York for clean up of toxic contamination in and around its factory in Bhopal draws closer [June 30th being the deadline], the Law Ministry is stalling progress on this matter by [...]
Fast-Without Water for Justice in BhopalDay 2 19 June, 2004 Saturday was the second day of the fast-without-water for Shahid Noor, Satinath Sarangi and Rashida Bee. Champa Devi and Wahid are sitting along with them but not fasting. Vardrajan, Secretary of CITU, met with the satyagrahis and has promised that he will talk to the [...]
Day 1, 18 June 2004 Rashida Bee, Shahid Noor and Satinath Sarangi from Bhopal today launched their fast-without-water at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi braving a 40 degree celsius heatwave. Champa Devi, who along with Rashida Bee received the 2004 Goldman Environment Prize, was unable to undertake the fast because of her high blood pressure [...]
