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By: Bill the Butcher I remember the afternoon of 3 December 1984. Year-end examinations were going on at school, and I’d finished taking the morning paper and was waiting for the afternoon exam to begin. I can even remember where I was; our school’s old art class, built in the old British...

The Bhopal Gas Tragedy has been one of the worst incidents in the history of India, right up there with the unpunished anti-Sikh riots of 1984, and the Gujarat anti-Muslim riots of 2002. The gas attack, in the dead night of early December 1984, had a personal connection for me. My dad had been...

For A Few Pieces Of Silver AS NEW SKELETONS FALL OUT OF THE OLD BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY, SHOMA CHAUDHURY AND SHANTANU GUHA RAY TRACK HOW JUSTICE IS STILL BEING SUBVERTED TO PROTECT THE “INVESTMENT CLIMATE” IN INDIA SOMETIMES THE breaking news is not as important...

Bhopal Tragedy: SAD Draws Parallels With '84 Riot Ruling Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab today drew parallels between 1984 anti-sikh riots and the Bhopal gas tragedy saying their victims had not got justice and accused the Congress of shielding the culprits in both the cases. "The...

The Dec 2-3, 1984, Bhopal industrial disaster had capped off five weeks of what was probably the bloodiest time in independent India's history until then. In a macabre sort of way, the Bhopal disaster seemed to provide perfect denouement to the series of dystopian events that preceded it...

Bhopal case exposes US double standards: India Today - Latest Breaking News from India, World, Business, Cricket, Sports, Bollywood. While the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy received a measly compensation, the US government is demanding from British Petroleum (BP) 50 million dollars to...

What a great decision: Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Eight accused convicted: Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari convicted the eight accused under Sections 304(A) (Causing death by negligence) and 303-II (Culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of Indian Penal Code. ALMOST A quarter century...

BHOPAL, India (AP) -- Hazra Bi wishes she could forget. But her damaged family is a living reminder of that December night 25 years ago when lethal gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, in the worst industrial disaster the world has ever seen. The gas that swept through her poor...