FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM also carried in DETROIT FREE PRESS and on WLNS NEWS (see below) NIRMALA GEORGE Associated Press NEW DELHI, India – Survivors of the Bhopal gas leak disaster on Friday threatened to go on an indefinite hunger strike unless the Indian government forced Dow Chemical Co. to pay for the cleanup of [...]
Two decades after the tragedy, ailing gas victims are compelled to drink poisoned water. Will the prime minister help this time, or leave them to their slow death, asks Tanaz K. Noble Rashida bi, 54, lost her father along with five other members of her family due to cancer. But today, it’s not just the [...]
Indians can no longer be proud as a peacock. The national bird is being pushed to the brink of extinction. Poaching, indiscriminate use of pesticides and lax laws to nab those who kill the peacocks for their feathers, all add up to an endangered peacock population, writes Aditi Tandon. Photos by Karam Singh THE national [...]
The day began with a meeting, late for us, it happened at about 10 a.m. to review yesterday’s meetings with the ministers and to discuss the day and days ahead. Delhi’s newest radio star, the charming Rachna at our morning meeting Sathyu read out a letter of support from Congressman Pallone and 19 colleagues in [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 31 March, 2006 The Ministry of Chemicals has assured Bhopal survivors that they will explore legal options to implead Dow Chemical’s Indian subsidiaries to enforce the company’s liability for clean-up in Bhopal. In a meeting with six Bhopal activists, including four who had walked 800 km from Bhopal to Delhi, on [...]
Several Bhopalis and supporters, including Champa Devi, Shahid Noor, Sathyu and Rachna met with Ram Vilas Paswan, the Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers at 5 p.m. The meeting was productive enough that the group has decided to postpone any hunger strike until after a meeting with the Prime Minister himself, a meeting which is anticipated [...]
Correspondent : Vibha Sharma New Delhi, March 29 Survivors of the Bhopal Gas tragedy have received some major international support with 20 prominent US senators writing to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in support of the “New Delhi padyatra” by Bhopal gas victims. The letter assumes significance as some of the names who have signed the [...]
DAILY TIMES, PAKISTAN Tuesday, March 28, 2006 NEW DELHI: Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak arrived in the Indian capital on Monday pledging to go on indefinite hunger strike unless their demands for justice and rehabilitation are met. Around 40 survivors of the deadly poisoning reached New Delhi after a month-long 800-kilometre walk from [...]
PRESS UPDATE 30 March, 2006 A delegation of Bhopal survivors and supporters that met the Secretary and Minister at Ministry of Chemicals in two separate meetings yesterday described both meetings as “positive.” The Ministry, which holds overall responsibility of the well-being of the Bhopal survivors, had reviewed the six demands placed by the Bhopalis and [...]
MINISTER MEETS 39 SURVIVORS OF 1984 TRAGEDY GOVERNMENT VOWS TO PUSH FOR GAS LEAK CLEANUP, REPARATION by Rajshree Sisodia SPECIAL TO THE TORONTO STAR Mar. 30, 2006. 01:00 AM NEW DELHI—Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal chemical leak were cautiously optimistic yesterday after senior Indian government ministers agreed to push for a cleanup of the contaminated [...]
