September 18, 2025 6:19 am
According to the court, the case has been pending for the last 33 years and the criminal appeal since 2010.
September 09, 2025 8:57 am
The CBI told the court that ‘it has to be shown that the accused has suffered some disability or detriment in respect of the protections available to him under the Indian criminal jurisprudence’ for them to be allowed a retrial.
July 01, 2025 2:04 am
More than 40 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the process of relocating the toxic waste from Bhopal's Union Carbide factory began on January 1, when 12 containers carrying 337 metric tonnes of hazardous waste left for a private disposal plant in Pithampur run by the firm Re Sustainability.
April 24, 2025 7:34 am
Article 142, which grants the apex court the power to pass any order necessary to ensure “complete justice”, was used sparingly until there was a spike in the 1990s amidst much political upheaval in country.
March 13, 2025 5:07 am
A total of 30 tonnes of the 337 metric tonnes of hazardous waste transported from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal to Pithampur in early January was incinerated starting February 28.
March 06, 2025 6:06 pm
Officials said the first round of trial incineration, which began on February 28 and concluded on March 3, lasted about 75 hours, with 135 kg of waste being fed into the incinerator per hour.
March 04, 2025 4:27 am
The trial incineration is being carried out on the orders of the Jabalpur bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
March 01, 2025 8:09 am
Though a total of 337 metric tonnes of waste was transported from Union Carbide’s defunct Bhopal factory to Pithampur on the order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court early in January, locals had agitated against its incineration, delaying the trial process.
February 19, 2025 6:28 am
A division bench of Chief Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Vivek Jain directed the state government to “undertake the first trial run of 10 metric tonne by taking all protocols into consideration on 27.02.2025 and thereafter see the result of the same”.
February 18, 2025 2:06 am
A bench of Justices B R Gavai and A G Masih agreed to hear next week the plea which claimed the direction to dispose of the waste in Pithampur involves “significant public health and environmental risks”.
December 03, 2022 7:17 pm
December 03, 2021 1:17 pm
On the 37th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy, victims continue to fight for justice. The survivors of the tragedy have been fighting for long for adequate compensation and proper medical treatment for ailments caused by the toxic leak.
May 07, 2020 5:06 pm
Eleven people died while over hundreds fell ill following a gas leak from a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam on Thursday morning. People in the Gopalapatnam area, where the chemical plant is located, complained of irritation in eyes, breathlessness, nausea, and rashes on their bodies.
December 03, 2019 9:12 am
The 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy which killed thousands of people is among the world’s “major industrial accidents” of the 20th century, according to a UN report.
December 02, 2014 3:56 pm
A look at the contemporary environmental and social situation in Bhopal through the lens of award-winning Magnum photographer Raghu Rai.