Today marks the 24th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster--one that has been called the "Hiroshima of the chemical industry" and that took place in Bhopal, India. Around midnight on December 3rd, 1984, a Union Carbide pesticide plant ...
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Bhopal, Dec 3 (IANS) People here held rallies, demonstrations and burnt effigies to observe the 24th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy, which killed over 3,000 people and maimed several thousand others for life. The tragedy occurred on the night ...
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Bhopal, Dec 3: Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy today mourned their kith and kin, who had a silent death following leakage of about 40 tonnes of toxic methyl isocyanate from the Union Carbide Corporation's (UCC) pesticide plant here on this ...
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GLOBE-Net (December 3, 2008) - This week marks the 24th anniversary of the day when 40 tons of toxic gases from a pesticide plant were leaked into the air over Bhopal, India, killing thousands. Since then little or nothing has been done to clean up ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va.-- Madan Bhasin, the Kanawha Valley's most honored scientist, is retiring on Dec. 31 after a 45-year career at the South Charleston Technical Center, The Dow Chemical Co. announced. Madan Bhasin has worked as a research scientist at ...
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The 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, was a terrible tragedy that understandably continues to evoke strong emotions even 24 years later. On 3rd December 1984, poison gas leaked from a Union Carbide factory, killing thousands. On the fateful night the Union ...
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Bhopal, Dec 2 (IANS) Hundreds of survivors of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Tuesday marched with torches and held a candlelight vigil outside the now defunct Union Carbide factory here on the eve of the 24th anniversary of the disaster. Thousands of tonnes ...
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