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Bhopal gas tragedy toxic waste transported amid protests. Here’s why

Forty years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, 377 tons of hazardous waste have been removed from the abandoned Union Carbide factory for proper disposal amid protests. As reported by PTI, the toxic waste was transported on Wednesday night in 12 sealed container trucks from Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, to the Pithampur industrial area in Dhar district, located 250 …

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Bhopal gas disaster: City gets rid of Union Carbide factory's toxic waste 40 years after horrific tragedy

India TV News

Bhopal gas tragedy: Forty years after the horrific Bhopal gas tragedy, the process of shifting approximately 337 tons of hazardous waste from the defunct Union Carbide factory site commenced on Wednesday night for disposal, an official said. A green corridor has been created for the vehicles which are expected to reach Pithampur industrial area in Dhar district in seven hours," …

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40-year-old toxic waste from Bhopal-based Union Carbide factory leaves for disposal site in trucks

Live Mint

Toxic waste from the now-defunct Union Carbide factory was shifted on Wednesday — some forty years after the Bhopal gas tragedy. A group of 100 people have worked 30-minute shifts since Sunday to pack the highly toxic substances into 12 sealed container trucks. The development comes nearly a month after the Madhya Pradesh High Court rebuked authorities for failing to …

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Bhopal: Work to dispose Union Carbide waste near Indore begins 40 years after gas leak tragedy, protests erupt

Hindustan Times

The 377-metric tonnes of hazardous waste from the inoperative Union Carbide factory in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal, which was the epicentre of the gas leak tragedy of 1984 which killed over 5,000 people, is being moved 250 kilometres to an area in Indore for disposal. Pithampur: Workers deployed for the collection of toxic waste for disposal from the Bhopal's Union Carbide …

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Nicole Kidman is a force of nature in "Babygirl," the most mind-blowing erotic thriller in years

Salon

In the opening scene of Halina Reijn’s delightfully lascivious “Babygirl,” the high-powered shipping industry CEO Romy Mathis is having an orgasm. Reijn states her thesis at the very top of “Babygirl,” showing us the conventional, patriarchal image of a woman’s pleasure when the reality of Romy’s sexual gratification remains somewhere else entirely. The sex between Samuel and Romy is playful …

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Children like Sara Sharif deserve to be seen, heard and believed

The Independent

In recent weeks, the heartbreaking details surrounding the death of Sara Sharif have dominated headlines. As someone deeply involved in child safeguarding and policy through Manchester Met’s Institute for Children’s Futures, particularly in my work on child practice reviews and safeguarding responses in Wales and wider work across England’s safeguarding partnerships, these cases feel personal. Our Wales child practice review …

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40 Yrs Since Bhopal Gas Tragedy But Authorities Still Indolent: High Court Orders Swift Disposal Of Toxic Waste From Union Carbide Factory

Live Law

Terming the non-removal of toxic waste from the now-defunct Union Carbide Factory site at Bhopal a "sorry state of affairs", the Jabalpur Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court directed the authorities to immediately clean-up the site and take all remedial measures for safe disposal of the waste/material from the area. In doing so, the court underscored that if waste is …

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1 month ago

Jim Ratcliffe makes alarming admission over ‘mediocre’ Man Utd and plan to transform club

The Independent

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts this technology will be more ‘significant’ than AGI: Report

Hindustan Times

OpenAI chief executive officer Sam Altman has apparently downplayed the risk associated with artificial general intelligence. Sam Altman recently teased that AGI could arrive as soon as 2025 and will be achievable on existing hardware, with it being possibly made by weaving together OpenAI's large language models “My guess is we will hit AGI sooner than most people in the …

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India’s economic slowdown calls for a well-crafted response

Live Mint

Poll managers in the BJP must be heaving a sigh of relief: the underwhelming gross domestic product data for the July-September 2024 quarter has been released well after the Maharashtra assembly polls were done and dusted. Logging disappointing year-on-year growth of 5.4%, the GDP data print for the second quarter of 2024-25 is not only much below consensus estimates from …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

2024 ARIA AWARDS WINNERS

Daily Mail

Album of the Year Amy Shark - Sunday Sadness Angie McMahon - Light, Dark, Light Again Kylie Minogue - Tension Royel Otis - PRATTS & PAIN Troye Sivan - Something To Give Each Other Best Solo Artist Amy Shark - Sunday Sadness Angie McMahon - Light, Dark, Light Again Dom Dolla - Saving Up Emma Donovan - Till My Song …

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Save £100 on Gtech cordless vacuum shoppers call the 'best vacuum EVER' - plus more unmissable deals (save up to 50%)

Daily Mail

SHOPPING – Contains affiliated content. It’s official: Gtech’s Black Friday deals are here – and while the site sees savings of up to 50 per cent, we’ve found an unmissable deal on the brand’s award-winning AirRAM Platinum Anti Hair Wrap Cordless Vacuum that you’re not going to want to miss. AirRAM Platinum Anti Hair Wrap Cordless Vacuum Compact and lightweight, …

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Old demand versus new: Is Indian industry investing in tomorrow’s sectors?

Live Mint

The festival season that is now drawing to a close began under a cloud of dark concerns about a further slowdown in consumer spending in India. The credit rating firm estimates that large Indian conglomerates are lining up $800 billion of investments over the next decade, which is triple the amount of capital spending by their business groups in the …

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Britain's growth calamity: The Government's prioritisation of the public sector over all else is bonkers, says ALEX BRUMMER

Daily Mail

There has been so much discussion about fiscal policy, new rules and taxing until the pips squeak ahead of today’s Budget that the core purpose of backing growth is lost in the undergrowth. Construction drive: Chancellor Rachel Reeves and colleagues see building more houses and better infrastructure as keys to economic expansion The US, for all its economic dynamism, has …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Inside Anthony Albanese's first-term inertia

ABC

With less than a year until the next election, the words of party elder Gough Whitlam could be ringing in Anthony Albanese's ears. Bill Shorten, a factional heavy on Labor's Right who'd torn down two prime ministers, again worked the numbers, securing enough party room support to supersede Albanese's membership backing. But Albanese knew he needed to tread carefully, with …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

ARIA AWARDS 2024 NOMINATIONS

Daily Mail

Album of the Year Amy Shark, Sunday Sadness Angie McMahon, Light, Dark, Light Again Kylie Minogue, Tension Royel Otis, Pratts & Pain Troye Sivan, Something To Give Each Other Best Solo Artist Amy Shark Angie McMahon Dom Dolla Emma Donovan Kylie Minogue The Kid LAROI Tkay Maidza Tones And I Troy Cassar-Daley Troye Sivan Best Group 3% Hiatus Kaiyote Royel …

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Save £100 on the Gtech AirRAM Platinum Cordless Vacuum Cleaner: 'Floors and carpets look so much cleaner' (power and convenience at a steal!)

Daily Mail

SHOPPING – Contains affiliated content. Previously priced at £369.99, you can now snap up the Gtech AirRAM Platinum and Speed Clean Kit for £269.99, saving you £100 if you order before September 30 using our exclusive code KR25. Gtech AirRAM Platinum and Speed Clean Kit Shoppers have been blown away by the performance and convenience of the Gtech AirRAM Platinum …

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The Dagenham blaze proves we still have not learnt the lessons of Grenfell

The Independent

Although it is already clear that the fire at a residential and business block in Dagenham hasn’t inflicted the same scale of injuries as so tragically occurred at Grenfell Tower seven years ago, the parallels are still chilling. In both cases, the blaze began in the middle of the night; there was the same terror for the desperate residents; and, …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Blinded by ideology: Inside boxing row that undermined IOC and tarnished Olympics

The Telegraph

It was a telephone call to Dr Emma Hilton, the developmental biologist whose work illuminates why sex matters in sport, that gave a first inkling as to the freight train hurtling down the tracks. Given her research had illustrated the average man could punch 162 per cent harder than a woman, I had wanted to establish what, to put it …

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Trump-friendly panel shapes Georgia’s election rules at long, often chaotic meetings

Associated Press

ATLANTA — The Georgia State Election Board, which once toiled in relative obscurity, now hosts raucous meetings where public comment spans several hours and attendees regularly heckle its members. Months after Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger defended the 2020 election results, lawmakers from his own party removed him as chair of the State Election Board in a move …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

How ordinary failure could have a seismic effect on an industrial giant

BBC

How ordinary failure could have a seismic effect on an industrial giant Alamy Earlier this year, a Boeing aircraft's door plug fell out in flight – all because crucial bolts were missing. Getty Images In recent years, Boeing has had to deal with serious issues with its 737 Max short-haul airliner The extreme reliability that we expect of jetliners poses …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Commentary: Alice Munro was no better than the miserable women she wrote about

LA Times

If you lived wholly online and never talked to real people, you’d imagine there are only two camps: Those who can forgive any artist’s sins and take the art on its own terms as if it were shot from some cannon on Mt. When news broke this week of Alice Munro remaining with the man who’d sexually abused her daughter …

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6 months ago

Hathras tragedy underscores failure to learn from the past

Hindustan Times

The stampede at a religious congregation in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday that left 121 dead is yet another instance of administrative inertia compounding the risks from poor organisation. Holding the satsang in a tent amid oppressive humidity and with grounds slippery from the rains escapes conventional wisdom even when a gathering of 80,000 — the crowd size the district …

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8 months ago

Battle in Huntington Beach after transgender surfer barred from longboard competition

LA Times

Sasha Jane Lowerson just wanted to surf. But when the Australian longboard surfer attempted to enter an upcoming competition in Huntington Beach, the athlete, who was born intersex, learned that the organizer wasn’t going to allow transgender athletes. There’s a lot of damage happening.” Sabrina Brennan of the group Surf Equity says the Huntington Beach event’s attempt to bar transgender …

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Bhopal gas tragedy toxic waste transported amid protests. Here’s why

Bhopal gas disaster: City gets rid of Union Carbide factory's toxic waste 40 years after horrific tragedy

40-year-old toxic waste from Bhopal-based Union Carbide factory leaves for disposal site in trucks

Bhopal: Work to dispose Union Carbide waste near Indore begins 40 years after gas leak tragedy, protests erupt

Nicole Kidman is a force of nature in "Babygirl," the most mind-blowing erotic thriller in years

Children like Sara Sharif deserve to be seen, heard and believed

40 Yrs Since Bhopal Gas Tragedy But Authorities Still Indolent: High Court Orders Swift Disposal Of Toxic Waste From Union Carbide Factory

Jim Ratcliffe makes alarming admission over ‘mediocre’ Man Utd and plan to transform club

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts this technology will be more ‘significant’ than AGI: Report

India’s economic slowdown calls for a well-crafted response

2024 ARIA AWARDS WINNERS

Save £100 on Gtech cordless vacuum shoppers call the 'best vacuum EVER' - plus more unmissable deals (save up to 50%)

Old demand versus new: Is Indian industry investing in tomorrow’s sectors?

Britain's growth calamity: The Government's prioritisation of the public sector over all else is bonkers, says ALEX BRUMMER

Inside Anthony Albanese's first-term inertia

ARIA AWARDS 2024 NOMINATIONS

Save £100 on the Gtech AirRAM Platinum Cordless Vacuum Cleaner: 'Floors and carpets look so much cleaner' (power and convenience at a steal!)

The Dagenham blaze proves we still have not learnt the lessons of Grenfell

Blinded by ideology: Inside boxing row that undermined IOC and tarnished Olympics

Trump-friendly panel shapes Georgia’s election rules at long, often chaotic meetings

How ordinary failure could have a seismic effect on an industrial giant

Commentary: Alice Munro was no better than the miserable women she wrote about

Hathras tragedy underscores failure to learn from the past

Battle in Huntington Beach after transgender surfer barred from longboard competition