NEW DELHI: Dow AgroSciences India Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of Dow Chemicals, is likely to be blacklisted by the government following its persistent refusal to respond to show-cause notices over charges of bribery. The agriculture ministry had asked the company why action should not be initiated against it for bribing officials to push three sub-standard [...]
We have just received news from Shashi Sonawane, the National Convenor of the Yuva Bharat organisation. Friends, Yesterday on 7th September, 2010, the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) filed affidavit in the Bombay High Court in which it has produced a letter submitted by the notorious Dow Chemicals seeking permission to surrender the 100 acres [...]
Unable to decide on the amount it should seek from Dow Chemical Company and erstwhile Union Carbide as enhanced compensation for the Bhopal gas leak, the Union Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers has put on hold the move to file a curative petition in the Supreme Court. The ministry has told its lawyers that it [...]
The Action Council against the polluting Nitta Gelatin India Limited (NGIL) at Kathikudam, near Chalakkudy in Thrissur district in Kerala State has been on peaceful and democratic protests and relay hunger strike since 2008 to invite public attention and government action defending the human and Constitutional rights of the people to live in a safe [...]
BJP chief Nitin Gadkari today demanded that the Centre shouldtake up the issue of 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy with US President Barack Obama during his forthcoming visit to India. “I call upon the government to raise the issue of Bhopal Gas Tragedy with the US president during his visit to India. Though the prime minister [...]
NITYANAND JAYARAMAN Activists are a cynical bunch. When a good thing happens, they wonder why. On August 24, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh issued a well-argued order denying forest clearance to a bauxite mining project by Sterlite Industries, a Vedanta subsidiary. If allowed, Vedanta would have lopped off 7 square kilometres of the top of Orissa’s [...]
CHENNAI, 1 September, 2010 — RTI Activists Gopalakrishnan, Siva Elango (Makkal Sakthi Katchi) and Madhav Vishnubhatta (Association for India’s Development) were picked up by Chennai police at 1120 a.m. They were demonstrating against the unlawful swearing-in of the former Chief Secretary K.S. Sripathy as Chief Information Commissioner without an open and transparent process. The three [...]
KAFILA.ORG Even as the rejection of Vedanta’s application to mine in Niyamgiri is being widely hailed as a victory for tribal rights, there is of course one set of very predictable voices, which has leapt in to start damage control for their corporate heroes. Thus one such cheerleader of Capital tells us that the ‘real [...]
NAGARIK MANCHA, SANHATI On 17th August 2010, social activist and our General Secretary, Naba Dutta, had been arrested from West Medinipur. Owing to unprecedented public outcry against the arrest, he was granted bail next day, but not before serious, and totally fabricated, criminal charges were brought against him. Why and how did this happen? Let [...]
