SHORTLY BEFORE midnight on December 2nd 1984 methyl isocyanate (MIC), a highly poisonous gas, began leaking from a storage tank at a pesticide factory in the Indian city of Bhopal. During the night, ...

For Raeesa Bi, the latest turn in the four-decade tale of the world’s worst industrial accident conjures up old ghosts. Sitting on a beat-up wooden chair in her small ramshackle home, the 68-year-old ...

Soon after the disaster, several concerned lawyers arrived in Bhopal to provide legal assistance to the gas victims. Many ‘ambulance chasers’ also swooped down on the city in that guise, motivated by ...

BHUBANESHWAR, India (Reuters) - Indian authorities said on Thursday they had completed moving toxic waste from the site of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster, which killed more than 5,000 people, to a ...

Madhya Pradesh marked 2025 with major developments. The state was declared Naxal-free after decades of conflict. Toxic waste from the Union Carbide tragedy was finally disposed of. However, the year ...

Forty years ago this month, a Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, sprung a toxic gas leak, exposing half a million people to toxic fumes. Thousands of people lost their lives in the ...

M. Sudhir Selvaraj does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

First part of a twelve-part series to commemorate forty years of the quest for justice for the Bhopal Gas Tragedy victims. The escape of noxious fumes from the premises of the pesticide factory ...