Poor living facilities welcomed the Chandigarh team in Bhopal for the national championships. ...
07:16 AM, Jun 11, 2011
Bhopal: An engineering student allegedly mowed down three college girls in Bhopal with his car on Thursday evening and ran from the spot. The victims and the accused are third year engineering students of the same college and the accused Mahendra Yadav is still at large. Reports say it was a lovers' tiff and that Yadav approached the girl as she was returning home with her two friends. When the...
11:28 AM, Jun 10, 2011
Bhopal: Security has been strengthened at the official residence of Congress General Secretary, Digvijay Singh, in view of the reaction to his statements following the police crackdown on Baba Ramdev's agitation in New Delhi. A senior police officer said that based on intelligence reports, security had been increased at Singh's bungalow. There were reports of some miscreants stoning Singh's residence, but police dismissed them as rumours. Meanwhile, Singh's scheduled visit...
01:08 PM, Jun 06, 2011
Bhopal: Locals in Bhopal carried out violent protests on Saturday on the streets against the Bhopal Municipal Corporation. Locals were angry over the Bhopal Municipal Corporation's illegal building demolition drive. The Bhopal Municipal Corporation had gone to demolish illegal structures, following which the mob got angry and started pelting stones at officials and the police had to resort to lathicharge. ...
11:21 AM, May 21, 2011
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There is still a lot of dispute over how many people were killed and left with life long disabilities by the deadly Methyl Iso Cyanide ...
07:01 PM, May 16, 2011
Delivering a setback to the CBI and Madhya Pradesh government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the charges against seven people accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. ...
08:58 PM, May 11, 2011
Chief justice AH Ahmadi had defended his 1996 judgment on the Bhopal gas tragedy on CNN-IBN last year. ...
01:47 PM, May 11, 2011
New Delhi: The quest for justice for Bhopal gas tragedy victims has hit yet another dead end. Delivering a setback to the CBI and Madhya Pradesh government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the charges against seven people accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. The apex court has rejected the CBI's curative petition seeking a stay on its 1996 judgment in the case and restoration of stringent charges against...
11:26 AM, May 11, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will pronounce its order on Wednesday on CBI's plea for prosecuting Bhopal gas tragedy case accused, who have escaped with lighter punishment of two years jail term, under the stringent penal provision attracting maximum ten years of imprisonment. The bench headed by the Chief Justice SH Kapadia had reserved the order on April 27 on the petition seeking to recall the apex court's 14-year-old judgement...
08:18 PM, May 10, 2011
New Delhi: Seven coaches of the Lokmanya Tilak Superfast train got derailed on Monday at 6:20 am Bhopal's Bina section near Sorai in Madhya Pradesh. Twenty-five people have been injured, out of which five have been grievously injured, railway officials said. Relief and rescue operations are over and passengers have been evacuated. The injured passengers have been taken to Vidisha district hospital. "Three bogies of the train overturned, four others...
09:04 AM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgement on the plea of CBI for prosecuting Bhopal gas tragedy case accused, who have escaped with lighter punishment of two years jail term, under the stringent penal provision attracting maximum ten years of imprisonment. The bench headed by the Chief Justice SH Kapadia will pass its verdict over the petition seeking to recall the apex court's 14-year-old judgment that had...
07:11 PM, Apr 27, 2011
Bhopal: It's the clearest evidence yet that the BJP-led Madhya Pradesh government has sanctioned religious profiling of Christians. This letter from the Bhopal SSP to all police station heads is clear, ordering the police to gather details regarding population, work profile, source of funding & criminal activities of the community. Similar letters have been forwarded by SPs to police stations under their jurisdiction. Father Anand Mutundgal, Spokesman of Bhopal Diocese...
09:42 AM, Apr 15, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the CBI for approaching it 16 years after it had diluted in September 1996 the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. A five-judge special bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia raised the question on delay and asked the CBI as to why it had not filed the review petition...
01:45 PM, Apr 13, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday allowed the CBI to seek extradition of Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson, an accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy case, from the United States. "Considering the entire facts in its holistic perspective and sentiments of the disaster-hit people, I deem it appropriate and in the interest of justice that he be extradited," Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav said. "There is no...
02:37 PM, Mar 23, 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
Mumbai: It was undoubtedly the world's worst industrial disaster but 26 years on, the skeletons of the past still haunt the population. The Indian Council of Medical Research has carried out more than 18 studies on the health impact of Methyl IsoCyanide (MIC) gas, which people in Bhopal were exposed to. The latest, a 19-year long, as yet unpublished, study on Cancer Patterns has some startling findings. According to a...
09:18 AM, Mar 16, 2011
Bhopal: Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan has got caught in the controversy over renaming Bhopal as "Bhojpal", an idea floated by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan but opposed by a majority of Bhopalis. Hours ahead of a "peace march" on Saturday evening to protest the move to rename Bhopal, activists said that being an outsider, the super star has no right to "endorse" the name "Bhojpal" for Bhopal. The state government...
09:19 AM, Mar 13, 2011
New Delhi: Bhopal gas victims allege that they are being used as guinea pigs for unethical drug trials without being informed. An RTI has revealed that Bhopal Memorial Hospital has pocketed over Rs 1 crore by allowing pharma companies to conduct clinical trials on disaster victims. Shankar Lal was 33 when the Bhopal Union Carbide leak of 1984 happened. Lal and his pregnant wife Laxmi survived but not their child...
09:31 AM, Mar 02, 2011
Houston: Union Carbide Company (UCC) and Dow Chemicals Company on Monday said it will oppose in the Supreme Court the curative petition filed by the Indian Government seeking enhancement of compensation from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore for the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. UCC and Dow Chemicals, which owns UCC since 2001, issued separate statements and said the Government's petition will receive "vigorous" opposition and "strong...
09:21 PM, Feb 28, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Union Carbide Corporation, Dow Chemicals and others on a Centre's plea seeking enhancement of compensation to the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore. The apex court also sought replies of Mcleod Russel India, which holds 50.9 per cent share in UCIL, currently known as Eveready Industries Ltd, on a curative petition...
03:27 PM, Feb 28, 2011
