New Delhi: Despite the resignation of the Ethics panel chief, the London Olympic Committee stands firm, says Dow will remain a sponsor for the Olympic Games. The London Olympics Organisisng Committee said on Friday that Dow Chemicals will remain the sponsors of the 2012 London Olympics. The chief executive of the London Olympics said that the clean up of the Bhopal disaster site is the Indian government's responsibility. "Absolutely comfortable...
12:41 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
New Delhi: A top London Olympics official has quit over the Dow sponsorship row. Ethics Commissioner Meredith Alexander put in her papers in protest of the sponsorship deal with Dow Chemicals because of its connection to the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. Alexander was appointed by London mayor Boris Johnson to serve on the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012. Dow is due to provide a plastic wrap that will encircle...
08:39 AM, Jan 26, 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
The organisers of London Olympics have stuck by Dow, leaving India's Olympic association in a tight spot. ...
10:38 PM, Dec 12, 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
New Delhi: The Sports Ministry is mounting pressure on the Indian Olympic Association to seek the ouster of Dow Chemicals as sponsors of the London Olympics 2012. The ministry has written to the Indian Olympic Association, asking it to take up the matter with the International Olympic Committee. CNN-IBN accessed a copy of the letter in which the ministry asked the IOC to raise the matter with International Olympic Committee...
12:13 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
London: Just a few months ago, Dow Chemical was hailed by the organizers of the London Olympics for saving a visual centerpiece - an artistic wrap around Olympic Stadium. Now, the Olympic sponsor is sparking the kind of controversy that no one wants. Dow's link to the company accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas leak - the world's worst industrial disaster - has brought a cascade of criticism down upon...
02:01 AM, Dec 03, 2011
CBI arrests Mahipal Maderna in Bhanwari Devi case. Dow Chemical says it wont pay more to Bhopal victims. ...
11:33 PM, Dec 02, 2011
New Delhi: In what comes as a big blow to the Bhopal gas tragedy victims, the Dow Chemicals has told the Supreme Court that it will not pay more compensation for Bhopal victims. According to the Dow Chemicals, the settlement in 1989 of $470 million was more than adequate and fair. The company further said that the Union Carbide Corporation had no involvement in the Bhopal plant operations as the...
06:06 PM, Dec 02, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday moved the Tis Hazari courts in Delhi seeking extradition of Union Carbide Corporation Chairman Warren Anderson for his involvement in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy case. Giving his opinion to the CBI, Attorney General GE Vahanvati on Tuesday said that there is enough proof for Warren Anderson's extradition from the United States. Vahanvati also told the central investigating agency that...
05:24 PM, Mar 22, 2011
