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Disposal of first batch of 10 tonnes of Union Carbide waste linked to the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy at a facility in Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district. | Photo Credit: PTI The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday (March 13, 2026) directed the State government to submit a plan within five weeks for the…
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New Delhi: The disposal of hazardous waste from the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy has come under the Supreme Court’s scanner following a petition about the health risk to residents of Pithampur, where it has been shifted. The petition also pointed to the risks to the people of Indore, which is just 30 km away. Today,…
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Dhar: Madhya Pradesh police have registered five cases against protesters in Pithampur of Dhar district who opposed the planned disposal of 337 tonnes of toxic waste linked to the Bhopal gas tragedy in their town, an official said on Saturday. Protests rocked Pithampur, around 50 km from the district headquarters, on Friday after toxic waste…
New Delhi: Two men set themselves ablaze in Madhya Pradesh’s Pithampur on Friday during a protest against the disposal of hazardous waste from Bhopal’s Union Carbide factory. The men suffered burn injuries and have been hospitalised. Over 300 tonnes of the hazardous waste had been stored in the factory since the Bhopal gas tragedy of…
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In 1984, highly toxic gas leaked from the Union Carbide factory. Bhopal: Forty years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world’s worst industrial disaster, 337 metric tonnes of hazardous waste remains in a shed of the now defunct Union Carbide despite Rs 126 crore being given to the Madhya Pradesh government by the Centre for…
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Since the Bhopal tragedy, the city has seen a significant population growth and urban development. Bhopal: Union Carbide factory, the site of the deadly gas leak 40 years ago which was once located on Bhopal’s outskirts, is no longer ostracised with its neighbourhood now dotted with residential and commercial establishments. The real estate in the…
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The highly toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the plant, killing 5,479 persons. Bhopal: Nearly 21 months before the world’s worst industrial disaster hit Bhopal, a lawyer had sent a notice to Union Carbide asking it to stop producing toxic gases at its pesticide plant here, citing grave public health risk. However, the US multinational…
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A social worker advocating for gas victims termed the appointments a significant victory. Bhopal: Taking swift action after an NDTV report highlighted massive staff shortages in hospitals meant for survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the Madhya Pradesh Health Services Directorate has cleared the appointment of 12 doctors. The doctors are among 15 spoken…
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A poignant statue commemorating the Bhopal gas tragedy – a child clinging to its mother — stands near the infamous Union Carbide factory. Dutch artist Ruth Waterman sculpted this statue in 1985, moved by the tragedy and her parents’ deaths in a Nazi gas chamber. Forty years on, thousands of survivors of Bhopal tragedy continue…
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Survivors are forced to live with the lingering effects of the Bhopal gas leak. Forty years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, its toxic waste cocktail is brewing afresh. About 350 metric tons of hazardous waste from the Union Carbide factory is set to be disposed of at the Treatment Storage Disposal Facility in Pithampur, Indore….
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