A 10-year-study in Bhopal has found that every second person who was exposed to the gas leak 28 years ago has abnormal lung function. The study carried out by researchers at Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre and published in the February issue of the Indian Journal of Medical Research of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), shows that people exposed to the methyl isocyanate leak have a nearly 30 per cent higher chance of contracting lung disease than the unexposed population.

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The Union Sports Ministry has written to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), urging it to cancel the sponsorship of Dow Chemical for the London Olympics. In a letter, dated February 24, to IOC president Jacques Rogge, the Ministry's joint secretary Rahul Bhatnagar said that such a step by the IOC would assuage the “feelings of millions of people”

Dow Chemical Co hoped an Olympic sponsorship would boost its global cache, but the company's link to a gas leak tragedy 28 years ago threatens to curb some of the benefits from the $100 million advertising deal.

As many as 25,000 residents of Bhopal, India, died in the aftermath of a 1984 gas leak at a pesticide factory that was owned by a subsidiary of Union Carbide, which sold the facility in 1994. Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001.

At least 40 villagers undergo treatment. Panic spread among the residents of Maitapur area under the Simulia police station in Baleswar district after they began to experience an irritating smell of gas late on Saturday evening. The gas emanated from a neighbouring private pesticide manufacturing unit Krishi Rasayan. The unit near National Highway-5 on the border between Baleswat and Bhadrak has been functioning over the last two decades.

DIBRUGARH: Panic prevails in the Bordubi area in Tinsukia district following oozing out of natural gas from Oil India Limited’s well number 285 at Deosal Tea Estate under Bordubi police station from last 15 days. The situation turned worse when heavy emission of natural gas has been witnessed from 50 sq mtr area nearby OIL’s well in the night of Oct 18.

The toxic gas leakage at Sequent Scientific Limited in the MIDC area of Boisar, which killed four persons on Tuesday evening, may have been caused by old, worn out pipes, workers alleged on Wednesday.
“The pipes have undergone wear and tear over the years. Although inspection is done before every batch is manufactured, the pipes are not the focus,” said 22-year-old Sunil Chaurasaia, one of the six workers who were in the reactor room where the hydrogen sulphide gas leaked.

Four industrial workers died after inhaling hydrogen sulphide gas that leaked from a chemical factory in Tarapur on Tuesday evening. Seven other workers were taken to hospital, three of whom were unconscious till late at night. The other four were reported to be out of danger.

The leak occurred at around 7.15 pm on the premises of SeQuent Scientific Ltd, at a plant that makes veterinary drugs, within the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation’s (MIDC’s) industrial zone at Boisar, Tarapur.

Police have booked three officials of a chemical firm in connection with leakage of poisonous gas at the company's plant in Tarapur Industrial Estate in Thane district, which resulted in the death of four workers.

Thane district police said they have booked chief manager, production manager and plant supervisor of Sequential Scientific Limited for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and negligent conduct with respect to poisonous substance as well as machinery.

LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday sought state government's response within six weeks on the matter of giving compensation to victims of gas leak in Hardoi.

A division bench of Justice Abdul Mateen and Justice Sudhir Kumar Saxena also issued notice to the factory for its reply. The matter will be heard thereafter. The order came on a public interest litigation filed by victim Uttam Kumar Gupta and others. The petitioner submitted that Amit Hetro Chem Factory Ltd, Sandila manufactures chemicals used in medicines.

New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre on a plea seeking transfer of the corpus of the erstwhile Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust to it. The trust was set up to look after the victims of the 1984 gas tragedy.