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On the night of 2–3 December 1984, over 500,000 people in the vicinity of the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate, in what is considered the world's worst industrial disaster. [3]
The Machchhu dam failure or Morbi disaster is a dam-related flood disaster which occurred on 11 August 1979. The Machchu-2 dam , situated on the Machchhu River , failed, sending a wall of water through the town of Morbi (now in the Morbi district ) of Gujarat , India . [ 2 ]
During the 1980s, the village of Karamchedu had a population of around 13,600 of which 6,000 belonged to the Kamma caste. About 2,000 villagers belonged to the Scheduled Castes (Dalits), of which 1,100 were Madigas and 900 were Malas. [4] The village had a cultivable land of around 9,000 acres, most of which was owned by the Kamma landlords.
1980 Uttar Pradesh: Officially 400; unofficial estimates as high as 2500. Started as a Muslim-Police conflict; later turned into a Hindu-Muslim riot. [60] Mandai massacre: 1980 Tripura: 255–500 Bengali Hindu refugees [61] Gua massacre: 8 September 1980 Bihar: 11 Adivasis Massacre of Adivasis by Bihar Military Police in a hospital. [62] [63] [64]
By the late 1970s and 1980s, the Khalistan movement began to militarize, marked by a shift in Sikh nationalism and the rise of armed militancy. This period, especially leading up to and following Operation Blue Star in 1984, saw increased Sikh militancy as a response to perceived injustices and political marginalization.
The Nellie massacre took place in central Assam during a six-hour period on the morning of 18 February 1983. [5] [6] The massacre claimed the lives of 1,600–2,000 people [7] from 14 villages—Alisingha, Khulapathar, Basundhari, Bugduba Beel, Bugduba Habi, Borjola, Butuni, Dongabori, Indurmari, Mati Parbat, Muladhari, Mati Parbat no. 8, Silbheta, Borburi and Nellie—of Nagaon district.
The Peruman railway accident occurred on 8 July 1988 when a train derailed on the Peruman bridge over Ashtamudi Lake in Kerala, India and fell into the water, killing 105 people. The cause was never established, but was blamed on track alignment and faulty wheels, possibly compounded by a failure to notify maintenance workers about the approach ...
Gandhi was taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi at 9:30 a.m. Doctors operated on her. She was declared dead at 2:20 p.m. She was declared dead at 2:20 p.m. The postmortem examination was conducted by a team of doctors headed by Tirath Das Dogra , who stated that 30 bullets had struck Gandhi from a Sterling sub-machine ...