India's central government and the state government of Madhya Pradesh are in denial over the scale of the tragedy that occurred 30 years ago when at least 5,000 people died Bhopal, in a devastating ...

Former maintenance worker, Mohammed Yaqub, poses in his house with his old identity card from the defunct Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal where he once worked November 13, 2014. On the night ...

Judge Susan Getzendanner in U.S. District Court gave preliminary approval Friday to a settlement in a price-fixing case that requires Union Carbide Corp. to pay industrial gas buyers more than $33 ...

A convoy of trucks took away 337 metric tonnes of hazardous waste from the site of the Bhopal gas tragedy, 40 years after what is regarded as the world’s worst industrial disaster. The trucks left the ...

Bhopal gas tragedy: The incineration of 10 tonnes of waste from Bhopal's Union Carbide plant began on a trial basis at Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district on Friday (February 27), and the ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 8, 2010) An Indian court in Bhopal, India, capital of Madhya Pradesh, found chemical company Union Carbide guilty of negligence and convicted eight former senior employees for ...

Nearly 39 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy that killed thousands and affected many more, a representative of the US-based company that took over Union Carbide in 2001 appeared in a Madhya Pradesh ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Before dawn on December 3, 1984, a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, exploded and ...

Calcium carbide is a commonly used chemical compound in the agriculture industry, especially for ripening fruits. It is a cheap and easily available substance that is widely used by fruit vendors and ...