Vinita Deshmukh, Intelligent Pune, July 31, 2008 In India, `political influence’ plays a great role in “getting things done.” If you want to bend or break laws and quickly get to what you want, you need ministerial blessings. Once you are so favoured, government agencies are rendered to being spineless outfits and the rest seemingly [...]
Mynews.in, July 31, 2008 Bhopal: A non-government organisation working for victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy today protested a proposal by the Welfare Commissioner (Gas Tragedy Claims) to destroy documents presented in claim courts. ”’This will amount to injustice,” Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan Convenor Abdul Jabar told mediapersons here while reacting to [...]
Makarand Gadgil, Business Standard, July 30, 2008 Battle lines are drawn here in village Vasuli Shinde on the banks of river Sudha, near Chakan — the new automobile hub in Maharashtra’s Pune district. The villagers and the people of the Varkari sect are on one side, while the state government and Dow Chemicals on the [...]
Times of India, July 29, 2008 PUNE: After leading an attack on the research and development (R&D) centre of Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd (DCIPL) on Friday, warkari leader Banda Tatya Karadkar staged an agitation on Monday demanding that he be held responsible for the attack. According to the local police, the agitation staged at [...]
AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA AND V. VENKATESAN, Frontline, Volume 25 – Issue 16 : Aug. 02-15, 2008 The survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy secure from the government promises to implement part of their demands. Akash Kushwaha, a seven-year-old boy who suffers from malformed eyes owing to contaminated groundwater, at a press conference held to highlight [...]
Statement by one of the organisations fighting Dow in Pune Friends, as per our earlier reporting, Banda Tatya Karadkar Maharaj Karadkar, one of the most respected Kirtankar of Warkari Sampraday (sect) who had led warkaris in destroying the construction of the notorious Dow Chemicals, marched on the Chakan Police Station near Pune to get arrested. [...]
Times of India, July 26, 2008 PUNE: The agitation against Dow Chemical’s research centre at the Shinde Vasuli village, about 40 km from here, took a violent turn on Friday, with a mob of about 250 people going on the rampage at the company’s construction site. The attack resulted in major damage to the construction [...]
Domain-b.com, July 26, 2008 Mumbai: The agitation against a research center being set up by Dow Chemical, which now own Union Carbide in India, took a violent turn on Friday with a mob about 100 people setting fire to a shed at its construction site at Shinde Vasuli village, about 40 km from Pune. The [...]
Express India, July 26, 2008 Pune, July 25: Around 150 people, including some locals from Shinde-Vasuli village of Khed taluka, forced their way into the Dow India complex and torched the premises on Friday. The resulting fire lasted over two hours and was extinguished by fire tenders rushed from Pimpri-Chinchwad. The Pune rural police have [...]
***Latest news*** August 1st: Last night a large number of policemen went to individual houses in Shinde-Vasuli village and broke down doors in over 20 houses. Fearing harassment by police, many villagers have left the village. The list of persons charged by the police now includes an additional 20 who are missing from the village. [...]
