SHORTLY BEFORE midnight on December 2nd 1984 methyl isocyanate (MIC), a highly poisonous gas, began leaking from a storage tank at a pesticide factory in the Indian city of Bhopal. During the night, ...

BHOPAL, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of protesters gathered on Wednesday outside the abandoned factory which caused the world's deadliest industrial disaster in the Indian city of ...

Ronald J. Willey's review of Themistocles D'Silva's book "The Black Box of Bhopal: A Closer Look at the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster" is a welcome reminder of a debate that "is important to ...

BHOPAL, India -- Sunil Verma just wants to be left by himself. He doesn't trust strangers. Companionship is a creeping terror. Almost 17 years ago, a toxic cloud ...

In 1984, about 40 tons of gas leaked out of a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killing thousands of people and damaging the health of others. The Bhopal disaster, considered the world’s worst ...

BHOPAL, India — Hazra Bi wishes she could forget. But her damaged family is a living reminder of that December night 25 years ago when lethal gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, in the ...

If the victims were not impoverished, disempowered Indians, the Bhopal disaster would probably be on the lips of every human being alive to this day. People who were in utero during the Bhopal ...

BHOPAL, India — A Bhopal court will continue hearing the criminal case tied to the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, rejecting a request from Dow Chemical to move the proceedings to a special CBI court in ...

Activists have revealed that, almost 35 years on from the Bhopal disaster, hundreds of thousands of people affected by the industrial gas leak that killed more than 3,500 people in the central Indian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now living in Canada, Saroj Bhattacharjee, 81, is shown with his son Shamik in 1984. Saroj was a maintenance engineer at Union ...

LEE SUSTAR looks at the cruel legacy of the poison gas disaster in Bhopal, India--20 years after the worst industrial accident in history. THE SYMBOL of corporate globalization in India is Bangalore, ...