Bhopal: Parts of Bhopal are likely to experience a power outrage today, Janurary 8, due to the maintenance work by the local electricity department. The power cut will affect several areas in the city at different times throughout the day. Area: Adi Parisar Phase 2, Sampada Phase 1 & 2, and nearby areas Time: 10:00 AM to 02:00 PM

The young women and girls caught during raid at spa centres included a Kenyan national. The young woman had come to study and was enrolled at a university in Bhopal, police investigations have revealed.

College student and bird lover Junaid Qureshi says their cage was opened using a key. Investigating officer says CCTV footage yielded no clues.

Indian authorities said on Thursday they had completed moving toxic waste from the site of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster, which killed more than 5,000 people, to a disposal facility where it will take three to nine months to incinerate.

Senior officials on Sunday visited the unit in Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district, where 337 tonnes of toxic waste linked to the Bhopal gas tragedy is set to be incinerated, for inspection after a rumour spread on social media that one of the containers carrying the waste had gone

The disaster by American company Union Carbide in Bhopal in 1984 left thousands dead. After 40 years, the process to dispose of the waste in Pithampur has started but locals are protesting with two men setting themselves on fire.

Governor Mangubhai Patel said that the Bhopal Utsav Mela is more than just a trade fair, as it has evolved into an important platform for spreading culture, literature, and art of India among people.

Indian authorities have begun to transfer 337 tons of toxic waste from the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy to a disposal plant, amidst strict security measures to avoid another chemical disaster like the one that caused thousands of deaths in this city four decades ago.

Protests have broken out in Pithampur over fears that the treatment of refuse from the 1984 industrial disaster may pollute the environment.

Forty years after one of the world’s deadliest gas disasters, hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste have been removed from the ill-fated Union Carbide plant

Twelve leak-free containers carrying 337 metric tons of toxic waste for incineration reached the Pithampur plant 42 miles from Bhopal amid heavy security, Swatantra Kumar Singh, the director of Bhopal gas tragedy relief and rehabilitation department, told Reuters.

More than two months have passed since the sensational revelation of a factory manufacturing synthetic drugs near Bhopal, However, the Central and state agencies are still in the dark about where the huge profits generated by the owners of the facility were stashed.