Mukesh Jagota, Market Watch, August 31, 2007 NEW DELHI — The Indian government Friday said it hasn’t reached a deal with Dow Chemicals Co. on the payment for cleaning up the site of the 1984 Bhopal poisonous gas leak. Replying to lawmakers queries in the upper house of parliament on whether the government is negotiating [...]
Behind One Effort to Tap Into India’s Water Market By PETER WONACOTT, Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2007; Page B1 It seems that somebody at Dow has had a ‘eureka!’ moment. Whilst it’s a given that arms manufacturers thrive while countries burn, the business gains from mass pollution aren’t so immediately obvious. Perhaps that’s why [...]
Staff Reporter, The Pioneer, 24 August 2007 Bhopal gas tragedy victims unhappy with 123 Agreement… say it may used as a tool to pressurise Government on Dow Chemicals application Bhopal: While, the impasse between the Left and the Congress on the nuclear deal continuing, it seems that the 123 Agreement has suddenly turned more than [...]
Interview with Indra Sinha by Lindsay Pereira for rediff.com, August 22, 2007 Consider, if you will, a peculiar experiment. Pick an advertising agency; any agency. Walk to where the copywriters congregate, and gently whisper the name ‘Indra Sinha’. Then stand back and watch as feelings of inadequacy suddenly rush into the room. There is a [...]
In the years it was preparing to swallow and digest the fugitive from natural and literal justice, Union Carbide, The Dow Chemical Company spent $200,000 through its Indian subsidiary Dow-Nocil on bribes for Indian officials. As a result, Dow Agrochemical brands such as Dursban – containing the compound Chlorpyrifos, linked to severe health problems in [...]
New India Press, August 20, 2007 COIMBATORE: ‘We need to have worldwide reference materials of chemical disasters and establish a global specimen banking in India to meet the challenges, said scientist of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Padmashri Dr S Sriramachari, who was one of the chief investigators of the ‘Bhopal gas tragedy’, here [...]
The Hindu, Monday, Aug 20, 2007 An investigator of Bhopal gas leak tragedy recalls his experiences COIMBATORE: The tragedy of the loss of humans and animals were brought alive by one of the key members of the investigation of the Union Carbide of India Limited, otherwise known as the Bhopal gas leak tragedy that occurred [...]
Boyd Tonkin, The Independent, A Week in Books Published: 17 August 2007 August sees a seasonal outbreak of head-scratching and site-searching as panicky critics, editors, retailers and bookies rush to discover more about the lesser-known novels on the Man Booker long-list. Quite rightly, in an art form now subject to a crass star system, the [...]
SPEAKING VOLUMES, Nilanjana S Roy, Business Standard Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People currently sits on the Man Booker longlist New Delhi August 14, 2007: I used to be human once. So I’m told. I don’t remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet just like [...]
Express News Service, Lucknow, August 12 Ramanuj Rastogi, the owner of Asterisk Industries was arrested from Kaiserbagh bus station this morning for producing “sub-standard” PVC pipes at a local factory. Rastogi had closed down the factory and had gone absconding after six labourers fell ill on August 5, inhaling toxic fumes at his PVC pipe-manufacturing [...]
