Almost nothing is known about Chelsea’s marriage to investment banker Marc Mezvinsky except that it takes place July 31 and seems sure to be the society event of the summer.

Asked about the guest list, Clinton told NBC television: “My lips are sealed. I am under very strict orders not to talk about it, and I think for the right reasons, because it is hers, and it is a family wedding.”

Even the location remains unconfirmed, not to mention 30-year-old Chelsea’s dress designer.

Gossip blogs and people watchers are putting their money on luxury Astor Courts, modeled after France’s Versailles palace, in Rhinebeck, upstate New York.

But some 400 guests — expected to be a glitzy combination of Washington and Hollywood, including TV chat show queen Oprah Winfrey — will reportedly receive instructions no more than a week ahead.

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NEW DELHI (AFP) –
US group Dow Chemical said efforts to tie it to the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster were “misdirected” amid media reports the Indian government will try to extract compensation from the company.

Dow bought Union Carbide in 1999, whose local 51-percent-owned Indian unit was responsible for the catastrophic gas leak that killed thousands instantly and tens of thousands over the following years.

Union Carbide struck a 470-million-dollar out-of-court settlement with the Indian government in 1989, which absolved it of further responsibility for the medical costs or clean-up of the polluted site.

“There are some who continue to try to affix responsibility for the Bhopal tragedy to Dow, but the fact is that Dow never owned, operated, nor inherited the facility in Bhopal,” company spokesman Scot Wheeler said in an email to AFP Monday.

He said efforts to attach responsibility to Dow “are misdirected” given that Union Carbide had sold its Indian unit at the time of its takeover by Dow.

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