PALLAVI SINGH, Express India, December 18, 2007 New Delhi — In a strong message to the owner of Union Carbide, involved in the Bhopal Gas tragedy, the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi has joined ranks with other IITs in opposing Dow Chemical Company. Following an urgent meeting on Saturday, IIT-D has decided to reject the sponsorship [...]
Press statement 15 December, 2007. New Delhi — Responding to the calls of IIT Alumni, students and supporters of the struggle for justice in Bhopal, IIT Delhi decided to return Dow Chemicals’ sponsorship for a three day International Conference organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering. The eleventh hour decision to bar Dow from sponsoring [...]
Indo-asian News Service, Dec 15, 2007 IIT Delhi rejects Dow Chemicals’ sponsorship offer New Delhi — Responding to calls from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) alumni, students and supporters of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy victims’ families, the IIT Delhi has rejected Dow Chemicals’ offer to sponsor an international event in its campus. The [...]
India Post, 5 December, 2007 NEW DELHI: The 23rd Anniversary of Bhopal Gas Disaster was observed on December 3 by eminent personalities. Marking it as the “Black Day”, these dignitaries gathered to condemned the Indian Government for bailing out DOW chemical (which was responsible for the tragedy in December 1984, killing and injuring thousands) of [...]
Domain-b, 05 December, 2007 Mumbai: Dow Chemical Co, the new owner of the infamous Union Carbide, is planning a comeback by setting up a research and development centre in India, but is facing stiff opposition from social groups and prospective employees. Dow has offered to invest $100 million (about Rs400 crore) in a global R&D [...]
Sify, 04 December, 2007 Chennai: Marking the 23rd anniversary of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, more than 150 Chennai children aged between 12 and 16 gathered at the central lobby of the Citi Center mall to demand the eviction of Dow Chemical from the premises. Dow Chemical, the new owner of Union Carbide, has an [...]
Mike Jeffers, the Daily Texan, December 4, 2007 Members of a student organization hosted a candlelight vigil on the South Mall Monday in remembrance of the industrial disaster in Bhopal, India. Members of the UT chapter of the Association for India’s Development, a student organization that according to its Web site “fights the problems of [...]
ANI, December 4, 2007 BHOPAL: Survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster, the Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984, held a torch light rally here to remember those killed by leaked lethal methyl isocynide gas from a Union Carbide pesticide plant 23 years ago. Thousands of men, women and children marched through the city’s streets carrying [...]
Calcutta Telegraph, December 4, 2007 New Delhi, Dec. 3: Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak will march to Delhi in February to protest the Centre’s alleged betrayal in their struggle for compensation and justice. On the 23rd anniversary of the horrific incident in which toxic gases from the Union Carbide plant killed thousands overnight, [...]
IANS, December 3, 2007 Bhopal, Dec 3 – Hundreds of survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy Monday observed the 23rd anniversary of the lethal leakage that killed thousands of people and declared that they would boycott future elections till their long standing demands were not fulfilled. The disaster that occurred on the intervening night [...]
