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Emergency operations centre activated following mass fish deaths in Australian state

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Sydney: An emergency operations centre has been activated in Menindee, a small town in the far west of Australia’s New South Wales (NSW), to facilitate multi-agency operations, after millions of native fish were found floating down the Darling river.
The NSW Police Force said on Sunday that the massive fish deaths are believed to be attributed to hypoxic blackwater, a naturally occurring phenomenon that causes extremely low dissolved oxygen levels, Xinhua news agency reported.
“The scale of this event has been exacerbated by recent hot weather and significantly increased the number of fish in the system as floodwaters recede,” the police noted.
According to the police statement, authorities are continuing to release higher-quality water to boost dissolved oxygen levels in this area, while the emergency operations center (EOC) was established to ensure fresh and clean water supply as well as to coordinate the removal and disposal of fish.
NSW Police Force Assistant Commissioner Brett Greentree, who oversees the centre, pointed out that numerous agencies are already on the ground in the area with more on the way to conduct and support operational activities.
“Significant planning, including risk assessments, is already underway for clean-up efforts, which will include the removal of as many of the dead fish as possible, prioritising the immediate areas around Menindee, as well as other areas deemed high-risk in terms of water supply,” Greentree said.
“While this will require specialised skills and equipment, experts in the EOC have already identified suitable contractors, and it is expected work will commence this week,” he added.
On Friday, the NSW Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) confirmed on social media that the agency is aware of a developing large-scale fish death event on the Lower Darling-Baaka below Menindee Main Weir through to Weir 32, adjacent to the Menindee township.

“It is estimated that millions of fish, predominantly Bony Herring (Bony Bream) have been affected, as well as smaller number of other large-bodied species such as Murray Cod, Golden Perch, Silver Perch and Carp,” said the department.
Cameron Lay, Director of freshwater environments at NSW DPI, told local media that the situation is “very distressing”.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 19, 2023
Serial deaths of cows in Karnataka village, locals point fingers at BJP Yatra

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Raichur: Seven cows have been reported to have died and eight others critically ill after allegedly eating waste food in the Gunjalli village in Raichur district.
The locals on Thursday alleged that the cows ate waste food piled up in the village after the Vijay Sankalp Yatra of the BJP.
The locals said that so far seven cows have died and eight cows are critically ill after consuming the leftover food and waste materials. Even buffaloes and other animals have also taken ill. The abdomen of several cows are bloated and farmers who reared them have expressed shock and anger over the development.
The Vijay Sankalp Yatra was organised at Gunjalli on March 10. Thousands of people participated in the rally and BJP had organised lunch for the party workers and supporters. After the lunch, the leftover food and waste materials were thrown at an open field and the cattle ate them and developed sickness.
Last month, two cows died after eating rice packed in plastic covers in Vaikuntha Pura village of Sringeri taluk following the Pancha Ratna Yatra of JD(S).
The people are slamming the BJP, which talks highly of taking care of cows, for not disposing of the food appropriately that has resulted in the cow deaths.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 16, 2023
Dont use propylene glycol supplied by Delhi firm, orders DGCI post cough syrup deaths

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New Delhi: India’s drug regulator has directed drug manufacturers not to use propylene glycol supplied by a Delhi-based company which provided the ingredient to Marion Biotech, whose cough syrups were alleged to have led to the deaths of children in Uzbekistan.
Maya Chemtech India Pvt. Ltd. supplied propylene glycol used in Marion Biotech’s cough syrups that were found to be “not of standard quality”, according to the regulator.
Three employees of Marion Biotech were arrested on charges of manufacture and sale of adulterated drugs.
Also, the drugs inspector from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) North Zone last week issued a notice to the pharmaceutical firm asking it to stop the sale and distribution of the drug concerned, stating that the sample was found to be “not of standard quality”.
Uzbekistan alleged in December last year that several children died after consuming Marion Biotech’s cough syrups, which it claimed were contaminated with unacceptable amounts of ethylene glycol or propylene glycol.
According to a communication sent by Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) Rajeev Raghuvanshi to the licensing authorities of all states and Union territories on March 7, during the course of investigation a total of 33 samples were drawn by drugs inspectors. The test reports of 30 drug samples have been received, wherein 24 samples were declared as “not of standard quality”.
Also, out of these samples, 22 fall under the category of adulterated/spurious under Sections 17A and 178 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940.
“It is further informed that M/s Maya Chemtech India Pvt. Ltd…was mainly the supplier of propylene glycol which has been used in the impugned batches. In view of the above, you are requested to issue directions to all manufacturers in your jurisdiction not to use propylene glycol supplied by Maya Chemtech India Pvt,” the DCGI said in the letter.

Accordingly, he also requested them to instruct their enforcement officials to keep strict vigil on the matter and take stringent action as per law against the offenders in public interest.
On January 12, the World Health Organization (WHO) had issued a “medical product alert”, referring to two substandard (contaminated) products, identified in Uzbekistan and reported to it on December 22, 2022.
“The two products are AMBRONOL syrup and DOK-1 Max syrup. The stated manufacturer of both products is MARION BIOTECH PVT. LTD, (Uttar Pradesh, India). To date, the stated manufacturer has not provided guarantees to WHO on the safety and quality of these products,” the WHO had said then.
“Laboratory analysis of samples of both products, undertaken by national quality control laboratories of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan found both products contained unacceptable amounts of diethylene glycol and/or ethylene glycol as contaminants,” it had noted.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 10, 2023
Gaya deaths: Indian Army denies any firing practice in Deuri Dumri range on Holi

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Patna: A day after three persons of a family lost their lives and two others injured in a blast in Bihar’s Gaya, the Indian Army on Thursday held that there was no firing practice session in Deuri-Dumri range in the district on the day in question.
In a statement, the army clarified that there was no mortar firing practice in Deuri-Dumri range in Gaya on the day of Holi, and it will cooperate with the investigating agencies. It has also expressed deep condolences to the family members of those who lost their loved ones in the Wednesday accident.
The villagers of Guler Bind claimed that there was firing practice in the Deuri-Dumri range and one shell fell in the adjoining village and exploded. Due to the explosion, three persons lost their lives and two others were seriously injured in this incident.
As per the army statement, whenever a firing session was to be held in the range, the local range officer takes prior permission from the district administration and alerts the villagers residing in the surroundings of the range. As there was no firing practice scheduled on March 8, the local army official did not take permission from the district administration.
The statement further said that there is a suspicion of blind mortar shells were accumulated at the place for trading and termed it a wrong and dangerous practice. There is also a possibility that a mortar shell fell earlier and was found by anyone leading to an explosion on March 8, it added.
The villagers have shown the round circle pit having the size of mortar shell but if a mortar shell explodes, it does not leave such a signature on the soil, it said.
Terming the incident “unfortunate”, the army has expressed deep sorrow and condolences to the family members of the victims and said that it is ready to help the district administration as well as the villagers.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 9, 2023
Adenovirus alarm: 4 more child deaths reported from Kolkata

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Kolkata: The adenovirus menace in West Bengal seems to be assuming alarming proportions as deaths of four more children, admitted in a Kolkata hospital with its symptoms, were reported in the last six hours, taking the death toll of children to 40 in nine days.
By Sunday morning, the deaths of two children – Atifa Khatun (18 months) and Aarman Gazi (4 years) – were reported from the B.C. Roy Children’s Hospital. However, by 4 p.m., four more child deaths had been reported from the same hospital, taking the number of deaths to six in the day.
Hospital sources confirmed these four deaths of children admitted to the hospital in the period between 10.30 a.m. and 4 p.m. but their identities are yet to be disclosed. All the children reported to have died in the last 13 hours were under treatment with typical adenovirus symptoms like fever, cough and breathing problems and treatment failed to result in any sign of recovery.
Already, the state Health Department has issued an advisory for doctors, especially paediatricians, to take special care of children being admitted with flu-like symptoms, especially children aged two years or below since they are most vulnerable to being affected by Adenovirus.
The common symptoms of adenovirus are flu-like including cold, fever, breathing problems, sore throat, pneumonia, and acute bronchitis.
The virus can spread through skin contact, by air through coughing and sneezing, and through an infected person’s stools. So far, there are no approved medicines or any specific treatment-line to treat the virus.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 5, 2023
US report suggests child deaths in Gambia linked to made-in-India cough syrups

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New Delhi: A joint probe by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the US and the Gambian health authorities have suggested a strong link between the death of many children in Gambia and the consumption of made-in-India cough syrups that were allegedly contaminated.
In October, the World Health Organization (WHO) had issued an alert stating that the four cough syrups being supplied to Gambia by the India-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd were of substandard quality and claimed that they were linked to the death of many children in Gambia.
A CDC report released on Friday stated, “This investigation strongly suggests that medications contaminated with Diethylene Glycol [DEG] or Ethylene Glycol [EG] imported into the Gambia led to this Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) cluster among children.”
“Patients with DEG poisoning can experience a range of signs and symptoms, including altered mental status, headache, and gastrointestinal symptoms; however, the most consistent manifestation is AKI, characterized by oliguria (low urine output) or anuria, progressing over 1-3 days to renal failure (indicated by elevated serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen),” read the report.
According to the CDC, they were contacted by Gambia’s Ministry of Health (MoH) to assist in characterizing the illness (multiple cases of Acute Kidney Injury and deaths in children), describing the epidemiology, and identifying potential causal factors and their sources in August last year.
The report also said that in past DEG outbreaks, manufacturers have been suspected of substituting DEG in the place of more expensive, pharmaceutical-grade solvents.
“Among reports of AKI associated with DEG-contaminated medical products, this is the first in which DEG-contaminated medications were imported into a country, rather than being domestically manufactured,” it said.
It further said medications for export might be subject to less rigorous regulatory standards than those for domestic use.

“Simultaneously, low-resource countries might not have the human and financial resources to monitor and test imported drugs,” it stated.
Union Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar in a reply to Lok Sabha on February 3 had said that after testing, the samples of the cough syrups have been declared to be of standard quality.
The samples were found to be negative for both Diethylene Glycol (DEG) and Ethylene Glycol (EG), Pawar had said in a written reply to a question.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 4, 2023
Deaths in US prisons up by 50% during 1st Covid year: Report

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Washington: US state and federal prisons saw deaths surging nearly 50 per cent during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, and in six states they had more than doubled, a media report revealed.
The New York Times report on Sunday was the first comprehensive data on prison fatalities in the era of the pandemic.
“The tremendous jump in deaths in 2020 was more than twice the increase in the US overall, and even exceeded estimates of the percentage increase at nursing homes, among the hardest-hit sectors nationwide,” Xinhua news agency reported citing the newspaper as saying.
While there was ample evidence that prisons were Covid hot spots, the data underscored how quickly the virus rampaged through crowded facilities, and how an aging inmate population, a correctional staffing shortage and ill-equipped medical personnel combined to make prisoners especially vulnerable during the worst public health crisis in a century, according to the report.
Covid infections drove the death tolls, but inmates also succumbed to other illnesses, suicide and violence, according to the data, which was collected by law school researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Altogether, at least 6,182 people died in American prisons in 2020, compared with 4,240 the previous year, even as the country’s prison population declined to about 1.3 million from more than 1.4 million, the report said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 20, 2023
Bhiwani deaths: Hooda seeks prompt action, accused says being framed

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Chandigarh: Haryana’s Leader of Opposition and two-time Chief Minister Bhupinder Hooda on Friday demanded a fair investigation and prompt action into allegations of family members who have accused cow vigilantes associated with the Bajrang Dal, led by Monu Manesar, of killing two men and burning the bodies on charges of cow smuggling.
“The finding of burnt bodies of two people in Loharu in Bhiwani is a serious issue,” Hooda said in a statement here.
He said the incident has once again made it clear that there is no such thing as law and order in the state. The government should take cognisance of the matter and conduct a fair investigation and take prompt action.
Charred remains of both men — Junaid, 35, and Nasir, 28, — were found in a car in Haryana’s Bhiwani. They belonged to Rajasthan’s Bharatpur where families of the deceased sought compensation of Rs 51 lakh and a government job each and refused to perform last rites till their demands were met.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, condemning the killing of Junaid and Nasir, said one accused has been detained in the case and search is on for remaining accused.
According to the complaint, Junaid and Nasir were abducted from Bharatpur by Bajrang Dal cow vigilantes.
Mohit Yadav aka Manesar, named in the FIR, has 83,000 followers on Facebook and 2,05,000 subscribers on YouTube. He received a silver play button from YouTube in October last year.
After a case was registered, Manesar, a member of Cow Protection Task Force hailing from Haryana’s Manesar, claimed that that he’s being framed.

“This incident is unfortunate. We came to know about this incident from social media. The strictest action should be taken against all the accused in this incident. We are fully prepared to cooperate in the investigation,” Manesar said in a video. He has demanded a CBI inquiry into the matter.
Manesar has been absconding after a viral video showed him firing rounds in Haryana’s Pataudi, where clashes were reported between two groups last week.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 17, 2023
Kanpur Dehat deaths: CM Yogi orders SIT probe

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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered setting up of a Special Investigation Team (SIT), led by Kanpur divisional commissioner and additional director general, Kanpur Zone, to probe the deaths of a mother and daughter during an eviction drive in Kanpur Dehat.
The SIT will submit an interim report in a week.
The state government also announced a relief of Rs 10 lakh to the victim’s family.
People protesting against the Uttar Pradesh government following two poor women were charred to death inside their thatched house during an anti-encroachment drive in Kanpur Dehat district on Monday
“For the proper treatment of the injured sons, an assistance of Rs 5 lakh each (total Rs 10 lakh) has been provided to the family by the government,” an official spokesman said.
Security has also been provided to the family by the government.
The incident has caused an uproar in political circles. Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had tweeted that the “spectacle of inhumanity on the bulldozer of the BJP government has become a threat to humanity and sensitivity”.
एक गरीब परिवार की झोपड़ी उजाड़ दी, परिवार के दो सदस्यों की जान ले ली, लेकिन भाजपा सरकार का फिर वही लीपापोती वाला रवैया। SIT का ढकोसला व ऊपर बैठे जिम्मेदारों को सरंक्षण
कानपुर के पीड़ित परिवार के साथ अन्याय नहीं होने देंगे। क्रूरता के लिए जिम्मेदार सभी लोगों पर कार्रवाई करनी होगी pic.twitter.com/Z3YoIVMfFX
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) February 15, 2023
BSP chief Mayawati said that the Kanpur Dehat incident is being talked about more than the state government’s Global Investors Summit which was advertised so much. She said the BJP government’s policy to use bulldozers is meant to intimidate people and make them helpless.
“In a big state like UP, which has been hit hard by poverty, unemployment, inflation and backwardness, the government’s bulldozer policy is causing deaths of even the poor and the innocent. This is extremely unfortunate and condemnable,” she said.

1. देश व खासकर उत्तर प्रदेश जैसे गरीबी, बेरोजगारी, महंगाई व पिछड़ेपन आदि से त्रस्त विशाल राज्य में भाजपा सरकार की लोगों को अति-लाचार एवं आतंकित करने वाली बुल्डोजर राजनीति से अब निर्दोष गरीबों की जान भी जाने लगी हैं, जो अति-दुखद व निन्दनीय। सरकार अपना जनविरोधी रवैया बदले। 1/2
— Mayawati (@Mayawati) February 15, 2023
Meanwhile, Rura police station in-charge Dinesh Gautam, accused in the case, under whose jurisdiction the incident occurred, has been suspended with immediate effect.
Principal Secretary (Home), Sanjay Prasad, said that Kanpur Divisional Commissioner Raj Shekhar has been authorised to select other members of the SIT in consultation with ADG, Kanpur, Alok Singh and complete the investigations in a stipulated time frame.
People protesting against the Uttar Pradesh government following two poor women were charred to death inside their thatched house during an anti-encroachment drive in Kanpur Dehat district on Monday
“Officials from Kanpur Dehat to Lucknow are in action on this incident that took place in Kanpur Dehat. In this sequence, the teams of the development and revenue departments will visit the site soon,” the official added.
These teams will complete the proceedings related to housing, old age pension and agricultural land lease there.
A total of 39 individuals, including SDM Maitha, the in-charge of Rura police station, four Lekhpals, a qanungo, a JCB driver, besides locals of Madauli and 27 unidentified persons have already been booked under murder and other charges in connection with the incident.
Police have also arrested the JCB driver. The JCB which was used in the demolition of the victims’ house has been seized, a police official said.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 16, 2023
Gujarat leads with 80 cases of custodial deaths in five years

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Gujarat has reported the largest number of custodial deaths in the last five years, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre told in the Parliament last week.
Gujarat is currently headed by BJP with Bhupendrabhai Patel as its 17th chief minister.
Gujrat recorded 80 custodial deaths between 2017-2022.
According to the National Human Rights Commission, the term “custodial death” also include the death of witnesses taken into custody, besides those accused in cases.
In response to a question by Congress MP Phulo Devi Netam on February 8, the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai presented a report that states 24 deaths were recorded in 2021-’22, 17 in 2020-’21, 12 in 2019-’20, 13 in 2018-’19 and 14 in 2017-’18.
Maharashtra comes a close second with 76 deaths.
Uttar Pradesh recorded 41 deaths followed by Tamil Nadu at 40 and Bihar at 38. The lowest deaths were recorded in Goa and Sikkim with just one death each.
This was followed by Uttar Pradesh (41), Tamil Nadu (40), and Bihar (38). The lowest – one death – were reported in Sikkim and Goa each.

A total of 669 deaths were reported nationwide in the last five years.
The Union minister added that around 201 families who lost a member in police custody have been compensated to the tune of Rs 5.8 crore.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 13, 2023