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/ 1 September 2010
India’s supreme court has reopened the Bhopal case in response to a government petition seeking harsher punishment for Union Carbide officials.
Indian newspapers vented outrage on Tuesday at two-year prison terms handed down to the local managers of the company blamed for the Bhopal disaster.
An Indian court is set to deliver judgement on the 1984 Bhopal disaster’s first criminal cases as 12 senior managers face possible jail sentences.
A film starring Hollywood actors that dramatises the Bhopal gas disaster has been criticised for misrepresenting individuals and the facts.
Hundreds of children are still being born with birth defects as a result of the world’s worst industrial disaster 23 years ago in the central Indian town of Bhopal, say campaigners. They are demanding that the Indian government provide immediate medical care and research the ”hidden” health impacts.