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n. State capital of Madhya Pradesh (India).
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Bhopal (; ) is the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of Bhopal district and Bhopal division. The city was the capital of the former Bhopal State. Bhopal is known as the City of Lakes for its various natural as well as artificial lakes and is also one of the greenest cities in India. It is the 17th largest city in the country and 131st in the world.
A Y-class city, Bhopal houses various institutions and installations of national importance, including ISRO's Master Control Facility and BHEL. Bhopal is home to the largest number of Institutes of National Importance in India, namely IISER, MANIT, SPA, AIIMS and NLIU.
The city attracted international attention in December 1984 after the Bhopal disaster, when a Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide manufacturing plant (now owned by Dow Chemical Company) leaked a mixture of deadly gases composed mainly of methyl isocyanate, leading to one of the worst industrial disasters in the world's history. The Bhopal disaster continues to be a part of the socio-political debate and a logistical challenge for the people of Bhopal.
Bhopal has been selected as one of the first twenty Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under PM Narendra Modi's flagship Smart Cities Mission and will be the first smart city of India in coming years. The city has been adjudged as the 21st cleanest city in India.
Bhopal may refer to:
- Bhopal, a city in India, capital of Madhya Pradesh state
- Bhopal District, a district in Madhya Pradesh, with the city of Bhopal as its headquarters
- Bhopal Division, an administrative geographical unit of Madhya Pradesh state
- Bhopal (state), the 18th century princely state in Central India
- Bhopal Agency, an administrative section of British India's Central India Agency
- Bhopal State (1949–56), a state of the Republic of India
- Bhopal (play), a play by Rahul Varma based on the Bhopal disaster
See also
- Bhopal disaster, an industrial disaster that took place in the city of Bhopal in December 1984
- Nawab of Bhopal, the title of the rulers of the princely state of Bhopal
- Bourbons of India, also known as the Bourbons of Bhopal, an important family in the region
- Bhopal (Lok Sabha constituency)
Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency presently covers the entire Bhopal district and part of Sehore district.
The seat has been held by the BJP since 1989. S. D. Sharma was the MP at the time of the infamous Bhopal disaster of December 1984.
Bhopal is a play by Canadian playwright Rahul Varma about the Bhopal disaster.
Usage examples of "bhopal".
The inky streaks across her corneas were, Roberta knew, twin legacies of the disastrous chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, many years ago, created when the other woman had squinted to see her way through the clouds of poisonous gas.
Seven and Khan were both at Bhopal, Roberta recalled, although they had managed to avoid being scarred in this manner.
Against her will, memories of Bhopal descended upon her and she recalled the sirens blaring as the toxic white fumes, released from the ramshackle pesticide factory on the outskirts of the city, chased her down the midnight streets, burning her lungs, scarring her eyes.
Her heart, still trapped in Bhopal, pounded wildly in her chest, but, through sheer concentration and force of will, she somehow managed to keep from trembling.
Unlike the multipurpose nature of Seven’s own standard servo, Noon’s device was capable of only two discreet functions: a mild tranquilizer beam and, in the event of an emergency, a preprogrammed escape command that would automatically transport the young man back to a secluded alley in Bhopal.
Located at the heart of the subcontinent, Bhopal was hundreds of miles from the nearest border and, although the state capital, hardly a prime military target.
Instead he had returned to his college dormitory in New Delhi, over six hundred kilometers north of Bhopal.
If bad news traveled quickly, then word of Bhopal’s agonized convulsions must be crossing the country faster than a supersonic jet.
It took less than a second to locate a special emergency bulletin, transmitted live from Bhopal.
Preliminary estimates suggested that as many as twenty thousand people were in desperate need of medical attention, far more than Bhopal’s overstressed emergency services could even begin to cope with.
Now in her middle thirties she was a qualified doctor with a consultancy at Breach Candy Hospital, who worked with the city's homeless, who had gone to Bhopal the moment the news broke of the invisible American cloud that ate people's eyes and lungs.
So when the Bhopal chemical plant dials and gauges began to say that something was wrong, people tapped the glass fronts of the dials and gauges with their fingernails and waited to see what happened, and decided that once again the only thing that was vWrong was the dials and gauges.