The Latest Breaking News from Union Carbide

The waste, packed in 12 sealed containers, was shifted from Bhopal to the disposal site at Pithampur in Dhar district on January 2. Read further on Dynamite News:

After four decades of Bhopal gas tragedy the toxic waste materials from the Union Carbide factory site were transported to Pithampur for its safe disposal. Read further on Dynamite News:

Former students at a school for children of survivors of the 1984 disaster recall families’ struggles in the aftermath.

In the early hours of December 3 1984, 27 tonnes of toxic gas methyl isocyanate leaked from a storage tank at Union Carbide Corporation’s pesticide plant on the outskirts of the central Indian city of Bhopal. Amnesty International estimates that more than 22,000 people have died as a result of…

Nathuram Soni vividly remembers the night 40 years ago when toxic gas swept through Bhopal killing more than 3,500 people in the shanties surrounding the Union Carbide pesticides plant.

Judicial Magistrate First Class Vidhan Maheshwari on Saturday adjourned the hearing until January 6 after the American multinational corporation contended the case does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Bhopal court that served a show cause notice to it on the pleas of petitioners.

It’s almost 40 years since a cloud of poisonous gas leaked from the Union Carbide chemical plant in the Indian city, but for many people the devastating contamination still blights their lives. Photographer Judah Passow spent a year recording the lives of some victims of the disaster

India has barely half the insurance amount required for current nuclear plants, and has many more plants in the works.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the Centre's curative plea for enhanced compensation for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy from US-based firm Union Carbide Corporation, now owned by Dow Chemicals. Read further on Dynamite News: