Day: August 10, 2019

Notre Dame cleanup to resume Aug 19 amid tighter safety

Notre Dame cleanup to resume August 19 amid tighter safety

12:15 am August 10, 2019

Paris: Paris regional authorities say decontamination and cleanup work at Notre Dame cathedral will resume on August 19 after new equipment and stricter safety procedures ensure workers are not exposed to unsafe levels of lead. The administration suspended the job of removing hazardous substances from the fire-ravaged cathedral last month under pressure from labor inspectors […]

US won’t approve labels that say glyphosate causes cancer

12:06 am August 10, 2019

Washington: The US Environmental Protection Agency has said it will no longer approve warning labels that claim the controversial herbicide glyphosate causes cancer, calling the statement “false and misleading.” The ruling, issued Thursday, is a boost to US agriculture giant Monsanto and its German parent company Bayer, which has been battered by a wave of […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

9 hurt in new blasts at Russian military arsenal in Siberia

12:06 am August 10, 2019

Moscow: More explosions have injured nine more people at a military depot in Russia’s Siberia region, where massive blasts earlier in the week left one person dead and 13 injured. The Friday explosions at the ammunition depot near the city of Achinsk in eastern Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk region were caused by lightning, the Russian Defense Ministry […]

Don't cancel Indo-Pak trains and hamper peoples' ties: Thar Exp passengers to authorities

Passengers a worried lot after Pak announces discontinuation of Thar Express

12:00 am August 10, 2019

Jodhpur: Roshan Bibi (51) from Ahmedabad was ecstatic to have attained the Indian citizenship after three decades of stay in the country around three months ago. But all her delight disappeared when she heard that Pakistan has announced to discontinue Thar Express, a train that has been running between Jodhpur’s Bhagat ki Kothi station to […]

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