Soon after the disaster, several concerned lawyers arrived in Bhopal to provide legal assistance to the gas victims. Many ‘ambulance chasers’ also swooped

On the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy, members of the Sambhavna Trust Clinic, providing free medical care to survivors, on Monday night paid homage to victims by holding a candlelight vigil near the now defunct Union Carbide factory in the city.

Highly toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) plant here on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984, killing 5,479 persons and maiming more than five lakh others in one of the world's biggest industrial disasters.

Forty years after the catastrophic gas leak at the Union Carbide factory, which claimed over 5,400 lives and injured more than half a million people, Bhopal’s once-neglected outskirts are now home to a growing number of residential colonies and commercial establishments.

Forty years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, its victims have failed to get justice with the case witnessing a protracted trial that saw 19 judges presiding over the matter for nearly a quarter of a century,

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav paid tributes to the victims of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy on the occasion of its 40th anniversary on Tuesday.