Environment
BP to raise $50 billion, sue partner Anadarko
22 Jun 2010
The London-based oil company has already spent nearly $2 billion in containing the oil spill, clean up operations and paying compensation to people whose livelihood were affected by the spill
Dow chief, Andrew Liveris, to skip Indo-US CEO forum meet
22 Jun 2010
Andrew Liveris, chairman and CEO of Dow Chemicals, will not attend the Indo-US CEO Business Forum meet which is set to see participation of a high-level Indian delegation, led by India’s finance minister.
Government to file fresh plea in Bhopal gas case
21 Jun 2010
The Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas disaster, at its fifth meeting on Monday, decided that the centre would file a new petition in the case
Israel to build world's biggest desalination plants
21 Jun 2010
The Israeli cabinet has approved a plan to build two of the biggest reverse osmosis desalination plants in the world slated to double desalinated water production in Israel.
Anadarko points finger at BP for spill
19 Jun 2010
India’s biggest solar plant in Kolar inaugurated
18 Jun 2010
Cong-BJP shed crocodile tears – Dow rules supreme
17 Jun 2010
Even as politicians shed crocodile tears about the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy Dow Chemicals, the successor firm, carries out its business with no concerns or grief.
Cong-BJP shed crocodile tears – Dow rules supreme
17 Jun 2010
Even as politicians shed crocodile tears about the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy Dow Chemicals, the successor firm, carries out its business with no concerns or grief.
Cong-BJP shed crocodile tears – Dow rules supreme
17 Jun 2010
Even as politicians shed crocodile tears about the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy Dow Chemicals, the successor firm, carries out its business with no concerns or grief.
Bhopal tragedy: Congress opposed compensation enhancement in 2007
17 Jun 2010
With the Congress Party scrambling to control collateral damage by the day it is now revealed that it opposed applications filed by victims to have the compensation amount enhanced as recently as 2007.
Delhi assured Anderson “safe passage”: ex-US diplomat
16 Jun 2010
A revelation by an ex-US diplomat that it was Delhi which had assured "safe passage" to then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson squarely contradicts all creative explanations being offered by the Congress Party.
BP’s US chief to be grilled over ‘shortcuts’
15 Jun 2010
Not yet commissioned, Kolar solar power plant up and running
14 Jun 2010
The power being generated is being supplied to farmers to pump groundwater for crops in the surrounding arid and backward villages, which have no irrigation
MPs thwart govt attempt to dilute N-liability bill
11 Jun 2010
With New Delhi’s chicanery in the Bhopal gas disaster still making daily news, now comes the shocking revelation that it is attempting to dilute the liability factor for global firms in the civil nuclear liability bill as well.
Bhopal fallout envelopes Congress: GoM reconstituted
09 Jun 2010
Faced with universal condemnation on the outcome of the Bhopal gas tragedy the UPA government has scrambled to control damage by reconstituting a Group of Ministers which will go into all issues pertaining to it.
Bhopal verdict: Jittery US looks ahead to nuke liability bill
08 Jun 2010
An anxious United States of America has said it hopes the Bhopal gas tragedy case would not affect its growing ties with India or impact the pending nuclear liability bill.
Climate change leading to major vegetation shifts around the world
08 Jun 2010
Vegetation around the world is on the move, and climate change is the culprit, according to a new analysis of global vegetation shifts led by a University of California, Berkeley, ecologist in collaboration with researchers from the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service. By Sarah Yang, media relations, University of California at Berkeley
Bhopal gas disaster: 26 years later, eight convicted
07 Jun 2010
Twenty six years after a gas leakage left an estimated 15,000, and more, people dead, all the eight accused, including former Union Carbide chairman, Keshub Mahindra, have been convicted.
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