Chennai: MDMK leader Vaiko demanded on Monday that India boycott the London Olympics if the organisers did not cancel the sponsorship contract with Dow Chemicals, which has links to Union Carbide - the company responsible for the Bhopal gas disaster in 1984. "To save the honour of the Indian democracy and to respect the sad sentiments of the affected people of Bhopal (gas tragedy), the government should send a strongly-worded...
06:16 PM, Jan 30, 2012
London: Hours after the London Olympics Organising Committee said that Dow Chemicals would remain the official sponsor of the 2012 London Olympics, the company issued a statement clarifying its position with regard to the Bhopal gas tragedy. Dow has said that it never owned or operated the Bhopal plant, and neither did the company acquired any part or issues related to it. The company further said, "The settlement between the...
06:11 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Meredith Alexander quit, taking a moral stance, in support of the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy and said the London Games organisers should scrap the sponsorship deal with Dow Chemicals. ...
07:51 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Bhopal: Demanding immediate release of the Bhopal gas tragedy victims arrested by the police for allegedly indulging in violence here on December 3, the organisations fighting for the rights of the gas victims on Monday alleged that even the old and those not present on the spot had been arrested. "Old and innocent persons and even those who were not present where violent incidents took place on the 27th anniversary...
10:05 AM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has written to the 2012 London Olympics organisers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), complaining about sponsor Dow Chemicals lying that there are no pending cases over the Bhopal gas tragedy. In a letter sent to the IOC the IOA demanded that Dow chemicals should be dropped as sponsors for the London Olympics. "A false campaign has been launched by the Dow Chemical's ...
03:17 PM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has written to the 2012 London Olympics organisers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), complaining about sponsor Dow Chemicals lying that there are no pending cases over the Bhopal gas tragedy. In a letter sent to the IOC the IOA demanded that Dow chemicals should be dropped as sponsors for the London Olympics. "A false campaign has been launched by the Dow Chemical's...
03:17 PM, Dec 20, 2011
Dow Chemicals on Monday clarified that it was never branding the 2012 Games with its logo in the first place. ...
08:53 PM, Dec 19, 2011
New Delhi: In what is being seen as a victory of sorts for the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy, the London Olympics will not carry any logo of Dow Chemicals. The company has clarified that it was never branding the 2012 Games with its logo in the first place. It also rejected reports that it had bent under pressure from victims of the Bhopal tragedy saying sponsors are never...
08:10 AM, Dec 19, 2011
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) will not the 2012 London Olympics, but will lodge a strong protest over the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy tainted Dow Chemicals sponsoring the sporting event. The decision to not boycott the Olympic Games was taken at the IOA Executive Board meeting on Thursday in New Delhi. The victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have been demanding that India boycott the 2012 Olympic Games...
02:21 PM, Dec 15, 2011
Bhopal gas tragedy victims asked the IOA to boycott the Olympics if Dow Chemicals remains as one of the sponsors. ...
10:58 PM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: The Chairman of London's 2012 Olympic Organising Committee Sebastian Coe has spoken out in favour of sponsor Dow Chemicals, despite criticism over the company's involvement in the Bhopal gas tragedy. Coe said he empathised with the victims of the disaster but said the two were entirely different issues. "Dow only became the major shareholders in that company in 2001, some 17 years after the tragedy. So, of course...
08:14 AM, Dec 12, 2011
New Delhi: The Human Rights Commission pulled up the Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday for the police brutality on protesting Bhopal gas victims. Taking suo motto cognizance of the police lathicharge on the protestors on December 3, the HRC has asked the state government to submit a detailed report on the incident. The gas victims through their protest, were demanding an adequate compensation from Dow Chemicals and Union Carbide. The...
09:26 AM, Dec 06, 2011
New Delhi: India is mounting pressure on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to seek the ouster of Dow Chemicals as sponsors of London 2012 and the Sports Ministry has written to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) in this regard. Dow Chemicals is the company that's believed to be responsible for the Bhopal gas tragedy, one of the worst instances of human neglect leading to loss of thousands of lives. Dow...
09:51 PM, Dec 05, 2011
Bhopal: Victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak tragedy were lathi charged by the police in Barkheri on Saturday when they carried out a 'Rail Roko' agitation. The gas victims retaliated to the police brutality by burning vehicles and pelting stones at the officials. So far, four trains have been stopped by the gas victims in Madhya Pradesh. Bhopal Bina passenger train was stopped by the Bhopal gas victims at...
12:48 PM, Dec 03, 2011
New Delhi: Survivours of the Bhopal Gas tragedy are planning to hold a 'Rail Roko' agitation on Saturday, demanding correction in death figures and more compensation from Dow Chemicals and Union Carbide. One of them survivour of the Bhopal Gas tragedy Rashida spoke to CNN-IBN and said, "This is shocking that Union Carbide is saying that the Indian government is itself claimed that the compensation given to the victims is...
06:46 AM, Dec 03, 2011
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