Victims and campaigners from the Bhopal disaster of 1984 have staged a "die-in" outside the UK's sports ministry to protest at the sponsorship role Dow Chemical Company will play in the London 2012 Olympics.
India has announced a new financial package for victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster as the case shot back to prominence after a court ruling this month.
Seven former executives are convicted in the Bhopal disaster, stirring reaction across India. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
India will make "vigorous" efforts to push the United States to extradite the former head of an American chemical company in connection with the 1984 industrial disaster in Bhopal, India, a government minister said Monday.
A court in central India ruled Monday that seven top executives and the company they worked for are guilty for their role in the 1984 industrial disaster that killed thousands in Bhopal, India.
A Union Carbide spokesman comments about the Bhopal disaster on the 25th anniversary of the gas leak.
T.R. Chouhan walked solemnly through the rusted remains of the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. "I come here frequently," he said. "We used to work here, and now this is the condition of the plant. So it feels really bad."
CNN's Mallika Kapur speaks to a Mumbai man who struggles with the deaths of two friends in the attacks a year ago.
It was to be a somber memorial, a remembrance of those who perished in a lethal milky fog.
Almost a quarter century later, survivors of one of the world's worst industrial disasters are pressing India's authorities to hold a U.S. corporation accountable
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