Bhopal: Anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal will be in Bhopal on Tuesday to stage a sit-in protest outside Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's residence. A few India Against Corruption (IAC) members were lathicharged outside the CM's residence on Sunday when they protested there. The protest was a part of the rally called in by Kejriwal to protest against the government over coalgate. ...
11:35 AM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: Alleging that there is no "Opposition" left in the country, activist Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he will sit on a dharna outside the residence of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Bhopal to protest the police action against his supporters there. He alleged people were "beaten up very badly" in Bhopal while protesting against corruption by Chouhan. "Is there any difference between UPA in Centre...
11:33 PM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: Even as India Against Corruption members, led by Arvind Kejriwal, marched towards Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence in the national capital on Sunday, their colleagues in different states led rallies towards the residences of their respective Chief Ministers. In Bhopal, the police lathicharged protesters who were largely non-violent. In Chhattisgarh, protesters gathered outside Chief Minister Raman Singh's residence in Raipur. In Odisha, demonstrators gathered outside Chief Minister Naveen...
02:20 PM, Aug 26, 2012
Bhopal: An Indore court is likely to decide on the bail petition of Saba Farooqi, one of the five accused in the murder of social activist Shehla Masood. Saba is the assistant of interior Zahid Pervez, who is the main accused. Shehla was killed in Bhopal in August 16, 2011 soon after she boarded her car to leave for Anna Hazare's India Against Corruption campaign. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj...
10:49 AM, Aug 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday set a six-month deadline for removal and disposal of toxic waste of the the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal and asked the Centre and Madhya Pradesh government to do the job within the stipulated time frame. "It is indisputable that huge toxic materials/waste is still lying in and around the factory. Its very existence is hazardous to health. It needs to be disposed...
12:49 AM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: Heavy rains, flash floods and landslides wreaked havoc across much of India on Tuesday. Nearly 34 people were dead and 20,000 were said to be affected in Uttarakhand, eight people had lost their lives in Kerala and four in Madhya Pradesh, while train services between Mangalore and Bangalore in Karnataka were hit. Uttarakhand It has been four days since heavy rains battered Uttarakhand, triggering landslides and flash floods....
02:04 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Bhopal: Hundreds of survivors of the deadly 1984 Bhopal gas leak held a "Special Olympics" on Thursday with children suffering birth defects in an effort to shame Olympic sponsor Dow Chemical Co. on the eve of the London Games. Survivors say Dow owes them compensation for the world's worst industrial disaster and have campaigned to have the chemical giant dropped as a sponsor of the Olympics. Dow says it has...
02:00 PM, Jul 26, 2012
Indore: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court in Indore on Saturday framed charges against all five accused in the RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case. However, Indore Additional sessions court judge rejects Shehla's father plea seeking transfer of her murder trial to the Bhopal High Court. The five accused are Zahida Pervez, Saba Farooqui, Saquib Ali (Danger), Irfan and Tabish. The chargesheet filed by CBI on May 25...
01:44 PM, Jul 21, 2012
Bhopal/New Delhi: An RTI has revealed that Bhopal gas tragedy victims are being used as guniea pigs for drug trials in hospitals. At least 12 victims have died in illegal drug trials till now. The Supreme Court has come down heavily on the Madhya Pradesh government after an NGO filed a PIL. Ramadhar Srivastava is one of thousands of Bhopal gas tragedy victims but the trauma he suffered at a...
02:46 PM, Jul 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up the Madhya Pradesh government on drug trials and came down heavily on the Shivraj Singh Chouhan administration for treating people as guinea pigs even as people are dying due to illegal trials. Terming it "most unfortunate', the apex court criticised the state government for the inadequate measures taken to curb the problem. The Madhya Pradesh government, responding to the SC's censure,...
11:33 AM, Jul 16, 2012
London's municipal authority has urged the organisers of the upcoming London Olympics to rethink their relationship with Dow Chemicals. ...
09:15 AM, Jul 12, 2012
London: London politicians called on Olympic officials to rethink their sponsorship contract with Dow Chemical on Wednesday, saying the company's links to the 1984 Bhopal disaster damaged the reputation of this month's Games. Members of the London Assembly, the body which oversees the work of the capital's mayor, said London Olympic organisers (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) should give more weight to environmental, social and ethical records of...
08:21 AM, Jul 12, 2012
Bhopal: BJP leaders on Friday disagreed with claims of late Congress leader Arjun Singh in his soon-to-be released autobiography on the issue of then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson's release and alleged that it was an attempt to shield Rajiv Gandhi on the issue. "Former Union Home Secretary RD Pradhan has already denied the contents. He (Arjun) was not stating facts correctly," former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Sunderlal Patwa said....
09:32 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Bhopal: The election of eunuchs to senior posts has been nullified by courts for the lack of clarity on their gender. Kamla Bua, a eunuch, had won the Sagar mayoral polls in 2009 by a handsome margin of over 43,000 votes from the seat reserved for SC category women. Her nearest rival challenged the verdict in the district court in 2011 saying that Kamla Bua was a eunuch and therefore,...
10:49 AM, Jun 29, 2012
New York: In a setback to 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, a US court has held that neither Union Carbide nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation or pollution-related claims at the firm's former chemical plant in Bhopal. US District Judge John Keena in Manhattan dismissed a lawsuit accusing the company of causing soil and water pollution around the Bhopal plant due to the disaster, and...
07:00 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Indore: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court in Indore will on Friday hear activist Shehla Masood's father plea seeking transfer of her murder trial to the Bhopal High Court. The hearing in the case relating to the murder of the RTI activist on Saturday took an interesting turn with her father pleading before a CBI court that the case be transferred to Bhopal. The plea was made on...
11:16 AM, Jun 22, 2012
Bhopal: Three students drowned in Bhopal's Upper Lake on Saturday. They had gone to the lake to bathe when one of the students started drowning. Seeing him sinking into the water, the other two students also jumped in the lake. But instead of saving him they drowned as well. "We were roaming around here. He came here to bathe. We tried to save him but couldn't," said Amardeep, the deceased's...
10:27 AM, Jun 17, 2012
Indore: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday opposed in a special court a plea seeking transfer of the murder trial of activist Shehla Masood to Bhopal on the ground that the crime took place there. "As per section 14 of sub-section 3 of CrPC, as the special court lies in Indore the committal of the case should be under its jurisdiction in Indore only," said senior public prosecutor...
07:06 PM, Jun 11, 2012
New Delhi: A Group of Ministers (GoM) gave its approval to the Madhya Pradesh government on Friday to dispose 350 metric tonnes of Union Carbide toxic waste in Germany. As per the decision, the Centre will pay Rs 25 crore towards the cost of airlifting the waste which will be removed within a year. Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Babulal Gaur said that the GoM under...
08:13 PM, Jun 08, 2012
Bhopal: The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has issued notices to five telecom companies in the state for not following due procedure while issuing SIM cards. The notice comes after some SIM cards were allegedly procured by five members of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Indian Mujahideen (IM) on fake identities. The members of the terror outfits were arrested in June 2011 from Bhopal and Jabalpur. ...
12:09 PM, Jun 01, 2012
