A report about the neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked was only shown to parents in full eight years after it was written, a public inquiry has heard. An external review was commissioned in September 2016 after consultants at the Countess of Chester Hospital voiced their concerns about the serial killer. A public version of … Read more
A worker was killed and three others suffered injuries in an explosion at a firecracker unit in Paruthikadu village, near Ayodhiyapattinam, in Salem district of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday (September 4, 2024). The police said at 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday, four workers were unloading raw materials used for making firecrackers from a vehicle, and as … Read more
As many as 22 workers were injured in a boiler explosion at a steel factory in the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) area in Jalna city of Maharashtra on Saturday (August 24, 2024), police said. “The condition of three workers is critical”, said Superintendent of Police Ajay Kumar Bansal. The explosion at Gaj Kesari Steel … Read more
Seventeen workers of a food processing unit in the Yavat area of the Pune district were hospitalised following an ammonia gas leak on Wednesday (August 7, 2024), police said. The unit located at Bhandgaon near Yavat manufactures ready-to-eat food and requires temperatures below 18 degrees Celsius, which is maintained using ammonia. “On Wednesday, ammonia leaked … Read more
Britannia Industries Limited announces the closure of its historic factory, in Taratala neighbourhood, Kolkata on June 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI With FMCG major Britannia Industries Limited notifying the stock exchanges that all permanent workers at its Taratala factory in Kolkata have accepted voluntary retirement, a fresh row has erupted over the flight of industry from … Read more
Union Minister for Steel and Heavy Industries H D Kumaraswamy questioned the subsidy given to US-based micro chip manufacturer Micron Technology by the Gujarat government while addressing JD(S) party workers, in Bengaluru on June 14, 2024. A day after publicly asking if the subsidy given to US-based micro chip manufacturer Micron Technology is justifiable, Union … Read more
London: UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty will testify before a U.S. House subcommittee on May 1 about a recent cyberattack at the company’s technology unit and its impact on patients and providers, the Energy and Commerce Committee said on Friday. The hack at Change Healthcare, a provider of healthcare billing and data systems, on Feb. 21 … Read more
A major fire broke out at a woodwork unit in Tondiarpet here on Sunday evening. A source said that an alert about the fire on Nehru Nagar Fifth Street was received late in the evening. Four fire tenders were rushed to the spot to put out the blaze. Read Comments () Copy link Email Facebook … Read more
An outer view of Bombay High Court in Mumbai. File. In a setback for the petitioners in the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2023, the Bombay High Court on March 13 refused to accept applications seeking stay on the Union government’s Fact-Check Unit (FCU). The interim application was filed … Read more
The Bombay High Court on March 11 refused to issue an interim stay on the formation of a Fact-Check Unit (FCU) by the Union government. A single-judge Bench of Justice A.S. Chandurkar, the tie-breaker judge in the case after a split verdict was delivered by the court on January 31, said “no case was made … Read more