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Forty years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, 377 tons of hazardous waste have been removed from the abandoned Union Carbide factory for proper disposal amid protests. As reported by PTI, the toxic waste was transported on Wednesday night in 12 sealed container trucks from Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, to the Pithampur industrial area […]
Bhopal, India – Triveni Sonani starts her working day at 9am when she opens the gates of Oriya Basti school and welcomes the children of the neighbourhood into the classroom for another day of learning. On this sunny December morning, she begins by settling the children into their spots, instructing them to open their books […]
Shortly before midnight on December 2, 1984, a terrible cloud, consisting of tons of the deadly gas methyl isocyanate (MIC), along with other chemicals, began to leak into the atmosphere from the storage tank of the U.S. multinational corporation Union Carbide Corporation (UCC)’s pesticide plant on the outskirts of Bhopal in central India. The immediate […]
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Bhopal residents should be prepared for planned power cuts on 25th November 2024. The city’s electricity department has announced several areas where power supply will be disrupted for maintenance work. The scheduled power cuts will take place at different times across various localities. Here is the power cut schedule for different areas: […]