PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI IN BHOPAL An NGO is rehabilitating victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy by producing hand-woven materials that are chemical-free. PICTURES: A. M. FARUQUI Dyeing cloth with natural colours obtained from vegetables, flowers and minerals. “Henceforth you’ll have the courage to say no to harmful chemical colours.” READ in isolation, these lines would [...]
INDO ASIAN NEWS SERVICE, JULY 3, 2006 Bhopal, July 3 (IANS) Seven doctors in Madhya Pradesh have been suspended after they failed to report for duty in a district affected by chikungunya, a mosquito-borne viral fever that has claimed two lives in the state so far, officials said Monday. Ten doctors had been asked to [...]
ASIA NEWS, JULY 3, 2006 This is the second place of worship to be destroyed in the same district. Bibles found inside were also burned. The Catholic Church has expressed solidarity and concern about what happened. Bhopal (AsiaNews) – A group of fanatical Hindus have set a Pentecostal Church on fire in Madhya Pradesh, destroying [...]
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, JULY 2, 2006 The Scouser at the helm of British Nuclear Fuels, Mike Parker, is working himself out of a job as he sells off the company’s assets one by one, racking up the profit in the process. But Martin Baker finds Sellafield remains a thorn in his side And for his next [...]
AJAY PRAKASH, WORLD SOCIALIST WEBSITE, JULY 2, 2006 The Congress Party in Gujarat has lined up with the Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the ruling party in the west Indian state, in its campaign against the world famous Bollywood actor Aamir Khan. A Muslim, Khan is probably best known to Western film audiences as [...]
The chemical industry’s attempts to frustrate legislation that would require it to use “safer alternatives” to existing materials and practices is here disguised as “support” for federal law over interfering state laws. REPORT FROM CONGRESS.NEWS BY MICHAELA RAY While expressing support for newly introduced chemical security legislation, an advocate for the chemical industry Thursday urged [...]
BRUCE NICHOLS, REUTERS Dow Chemical Co. and the Department of Energy are at odds over a potential government purchase of a site near Dow’s largest plant to expand the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The land, part of an area known as Stratton Ridge southwest of Houston, contains an underground salt deposit that would be hollowed out [...]
SANJAY SHARMA, INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE Bhopal, July 1 (IANS) The bride and groom are dressed, sprinkled with turmeric and vermilion and taken in a procession to the nearest pond for their ‘honeymoon’ with fervent prayers that the amphibian marriage would bring much-needed rain. But no showers are anywhere in sight in Madhya Pradesh. This is [...]
