Bhopal: Indian anger at Dow Chemical's 2012 Olympics sponsorship...

There is growing anger in India at the decision by Olympics authorities in London to select the Dow Chemical Company as 2012 Games sponsor.

Campaigners say the company has links to the devastating Bhopal chemical disaster in 1984 and should not be allowed "to detoxify" its brand.

The London authorities welcomed Dow for funding $11.4m worth of artwork.

They said Dow did not at the time of the Bhopal disaster own the chemical plant that was responsible.

Dow Chemicals bought Union Carbide - which then owned the plant - in 1999. It has said in the past that its $470m (£287,840) settlement for those affected by the tragedy was fair and final.

The Indian government says some 3,500 people died within days of the leak.

It says that more than 15,000 have died since then. More...

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