SHUCHI SRIVASTAVA, OUTLOOK INDIA, MAY 28, 2007 A government/industry nexus is giving leeway to Dow in the Union Carbide wrangle. Why? This is the story of an American MNC, accused of bribing Indian officials and influencing policymakers. It’s about The Dow Chemical Company (Dow), the second-largest chemicals maker in the world and an inheritor of [...]
SHUCHI SRIVASTAVA, OUTLOOK INDIA, MAY 28, 2007 A government/industry nexus is giving leeway to Dow in the Union Carbide wrangle. Why? This is the story of an American MNC, accused of bribing Indian officials and influencing policymakers. It’s about The Dow Chemical Company (Dow), the second-largest chemicals maker in the world and an inheritor of [...]
The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister was in the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday, May 16, 2007. A few of us from AID, FOSA, NBA and Ruckus Society participated in a private luncheon that the MP CM and his delegation was having with the investors from the area. Plenty of swank The luncheon started with [...]
Priyanka Dasgupta, Times News Network, India [Text]: CAN YOU GAS THE TRUTH? Aishwarya Bachchan comes up for air post-shaadi. The Bachchan bahu plays an Indian-American in search of her father, a plant manager on duty the night of the Bhopal gas oil leak, in an international project. CT detects the leak. While Abiarsh are busy [...]
BY DOCTOR BISWANATH GOUDA I never understood it when people used to say that it’s easier to make rational decisions when you are not part of the problem you are trying to understand. Not until April 2004. That summer, after graduating with a Masters in Public Health from Tulane I stumbled upon the AID website [...]
Tom Philpott, Grist.Org, May 8, 2007 Monsanto has barreled its way toward dominance over the global seed market with strong-arm tactics and friends in high places. As evidence of the former, the roguish company once threatened to sue me — then a neophyte blogger with 30 readers — on the most trivial grounds possible. As [...]
John Lowman, The Facts, May 8, 2007 FREEPORT — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Dow Chemical Co. $10,000 for four alleged safety violations. In a document with an official release date of April 30 but available Monday, Dow is fined $5,000 for two alleged offenses and not fined for two others. The [...]
John Lowman, The Facts, May 8, 2007 FREEPORT — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Dow Chemical Co. $10,000 for four alleged safety violations. In a document with an official release date of April 30 but available Monday, Dow is fined $5,000 for two alleged offenses and not fined for two others. The [...]
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Indian Express, May 3, 2007 Vadodara, May 2: It is not just the experts who contended that the Bhopal Gas Tragedy waste cannot be disposed off at the Ankleshwar incinerator. An independent study conducted barely two months ago by German company GTZ based in Frankfurt, raised doubts about the capacity of the Ankleshwar incinerators to [...]
