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The in-depth story of the Bhopal Disaster The amount of death and trauma experienced by the residents of Bhopal, India has made their city the home of the world’s worst industrial disaster. On ...
Forty years ago, on the night of Sunday 2 December of 1984, people in the city of Bhopal and surrounding communities were settling in for what seemed like yet another regular night. The worst thing… ...
A Bhopal court denied Dow Chemical’s request to move the 1984 gas disaster case, ruling the city has jurisdiction over the proceedings.
Somnath Mukherji, of Boston, a development coordinator for the Association for India’s Development, attended the vigil and and said he felt DowDuPont’s treatment of Bhopal was a form of “environmental ...
On the morning of Dec. 3, 1984, a pesticide plant run by Union Carbide leaked about 40 tons of deadly methyl isocyanate gas into the air in Bhopal, quickly killing about 4,000 people.
Earlier this month, on the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, congressional allies of this movement including U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash ...
Then in December, I traveled to Bhopal, India, a city that in 1984 was struck by the world’s worst industrial disaster. It’s given rise to a community contending with chronic illnesses.
BHOPAL (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of protesters gathered on Wednesday outside the abandoned factory which caused the world's deadliest industrial disaster in Bhopal, burning effigies ...
Hundreds of survivors of the Bhopal gas leak took to the streets Wednesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster, with protests demanding harsher punishments for ...
Two people in India set themselves on fire Jan. 3 to protest against the disposal of hazardous waste from the decades-old Bhopal industrial disaster, local government officials said. Images on social ...