India’s Supreme Court has rejected a plea seeking harsher sentences for seven former officials of Union Carbide’s Indian subsidiary in connection with the 1984 toxic gas leak in Bhopal.

HUNDREDS of people marched through Bhopal with torches before dawn yesterday to mark the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial disaster and demand the cleanup of toxic chemicals they say still contaminate the Indian city’s soil and water.

Police have detained 80 people who walked nearly 500 miles from the site of a catastrophic 1984 gas leak in central India to protest today outside the prime minister’s residence in New Dehli, an organiser said.

An Indian firm plans to burn toxic waste from the 1984 Bhopal disaster, the world’s worst industrial accident, despite environmentalists’ objections.

DOZENS of protesters were dressed as Father Christmas yesterday for a march against plans for an incinerator at Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

A survivor of the gas explosion in Bhopal today called on the Irish people to support the tens of thousands of victims left behind.

School authorities in a northern Indian state have banned exchanges of cards or flowers for Valentine’s Day, trying to prevent what a top administrator called an invasion of “foreign culture”.

THE BBC apologised yesterday after being hoaxed into carrying a report on its world television service that a €9 billion compensation fund had been set up for survivors of the Bhopal disaster 20 years ago yesterday.

The BBC apologised today after being hoaxed into carrying a report on its World television service that a compensation fund had been set of for survivors of the Bhopal disaster 20 years ago today.

The BBC says an interview with where an alleged spokesman for US chemical giant Dow accepted responsibility for the Bhopal disaster in India was a deception.

Thousands of civil rights activists, survivors and other protesters gathered in Bhopal today to mark the 20th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial accident and demand justice for hundreds of thousands of people still suffering in the aftermath.

WHEN Devi, her husband and their five children woke up to a nightmare, they ran, as far and as fast as they could.

CIVIL rights activists, survivors and other protesters converged on Bhopal this week to mark the 20th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial accident and demand justice for hundreds of thousands of people still suffering.

TWELVE people were crushed to death when a train ran over them at a railroad station in central India.

Twelve people were crushed to death when a train ran over them at a railroad station in central India today.

A US court could order chemical firm Union Carbide to clean up the site of a gas leak that killed thousands of people in central India nearly 20 years ago, now that the Indian government says it has no objection to the move.

A 30-YEAR-OLD Indian woman killed herself and her three small daughters

An Indian court was to decide today whether to lessen charges against the former chairman of US-based Union Carbide for a 1984 gas leak that left thousands of people dead in one of the world’s worst industrial accidents.

A man with the world's longest ear hair has had his world record officially recognised.