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How water contamination in Indore killed residents, including 6-month-old
Fp Explainers •As many as 15 people, including an infant, died and more than 2,000 fell ill due to contaminated drinking water in Indore’s Bhagirathpura over the last week. Many victims reported symptoms of vomiting and diarrhoea. Sewage mixed in drinking water has been blamed for the tragedy. Reports claim that serious lapses and administrative failures are the main reasons behind the preventable tragedy
History Today: How the Bhopal Gas Tragedy altered a city and a nation
Fp Explainers •One of the worst industrial disasters in India, the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, took place on December 2, 1984. As per official reports, around 3,000 people died while thousands of others died from the effects of the gas over the following years. On this day in 1993, notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed in Colombia
This Week in Explainers: Why Tata Trusts dispute is not good news for the country
Fp Explainers •The rift between the trustees of the Tata Trusts came out in public this week. As the infighting escalated, top leaders of the billion-dollar conglomerate, including Tata Trusts Chairman Noel Tata and Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran, met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. But what is the fighting about? Here’s all this and more in our weekly roundup
How pharma firm owner behind deadly cough syrup that killed children was caught in Chennai
Fp Explainers •Govindan Ranganathan, owner of Sresan Pharma, which manufactured Coldrif cough syrup, was arrested following a dramatic operation in Chennai. The man had been on the run after the cough syrup killed at least 20 children in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, due to toxic chemicals
Untrained workers, over 300 violations: Inside Tamil Nadu factory that produced deadly cough syrup
Fp Explainers •Tamil Nadu’s Drugs Control Department has exposed several lapses during raids conducted at the manufacturing site of the Coldrif cough syrup, which has been blamed for the recent deaths of children in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. It found 350 violations in the manufacturing process, including the cough syrup being produced in unhygienic conditions. Traces of diethylene glycol (DEG), a highly toxic industrial solvent, were also found in the medicine
Why Coldrif cough syrup, linked to over dozen children deaths in MP, Rajasthan, is dangerous
Fp Explainers •The 'Coldrif' cough syrup has come to the spotlight after 16 children died in Madhya Pradesh and at least two in Rajasthan. A batch of the medicine collected from a Tamil Nadu manufacturing unit was found to contain the toxic chemical diethylene glycol (DEG) beyond permissible limits. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has repeatedly warned of cough syrups contaminated with DEG and ethylene glycol (EG), linking them to over 300 child deaths globally since 2022
Madhya Pradesh: Truck runs over people in Indore, 2 killed
Fp Staff •Two people have died after a truck ran over pedestrians in Madhya Pradesh's Indore's Airport Road.
Ex-chemistry prof who used science to defend herself after husband's murder gets life term: Who is Mamta Pathak?
Fp Explainers •The Madhya Pradesh High Court has upheld the conviction of Mamta Pathak, 65, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing her husband, Dr Neeraj Pathak. The former chemistry professor’s video went viral in May, in which she was seen presenting her own arguments before the court and questioning her husband’s post-mortem report. But why did she murder him?
Indore bags India’s cleanest city title for 8th time in govt’s annual cleanliness surve
Fp Staff •The results of the ‘Swachh Survekshan’ were announced on Thursday, where Noida, a city in Uttar Pradesh, was the cleanest among the category of 3-10 lakh population, followed by Chandigarh and Mysore
How did Saif Ali Khan inherit Nawab of Bhopal’s Rs 15,000-cr properties? Has he lost them now?
Fp Explainers •Last week, the Madhya Pradesh High Court dismissed a decades-old trial court ruling that had made Saif Ali Khan, his mother and two sisters the sole legal heirs to the properties of the Nawab of Bhopal. As the case returns to the trial court, has the Bollywood actor and his family lost the royal properties worth over Rs 15,000 crore?