dangerous Pakistan’s dangerous capitulation to the religious right on the coronavirus By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 20:00:05 +0000 Perform your ablutions at home. Bring your own prayer mats, place them six feet apart. Wear masks. Use the provided hand sanitizer. No handshakes or hugs allowed. No talking in the mosque. No one over 50 years old can enter. No children allowed. These guidelines are part of a list of 20 standard operating procedures that Pakistan’s… Full Article
dangerous Pakistan’s dangerous capitulation to the religious right on the coronavirus By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 20:00:05 +0000 Perform your ablutions at home. Bring your own prayer mats, place them six feet apart. Wear masks. Use the provided hand sanitizer. No handshakes or hugs allowed. No talking in the mosque. No one over 50 years old can enter. No children allowed. These guidelines are part of a list of 20 standard operating procedures that Pakistan’s… Full Article
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dangerous America's Dangerous Aversion to Conflict By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:03:00 -0400 First it was the Europeans who sought an escape from the tragic realities of power that had bloodied their 20th century. At the end of the Cold War, they began to disarm themselves in the hopeful belief that arms and traditional measures of power no longer mattered. A new international system of laws and institutions would replace the old system of power; the world would model itself on the European Union—and if not, the U.S. would still be there to provide security the old-fashioned way. But now, in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is the U.S. that seems to be yearning for an escape from the burdens of power and a reprieve from the tragic realities of human existence. Until recent events at least, a majority of Americans (and of the American political and intellectual classes) seem to have come close to concluding not only that war is horrible but also that it is ineffective in our modern, globalized world. "There is an evolving international order with new global norms making war and conquest increasingly rare," wrote Fareed Zakaria of CNN, borrowing from Steven Pinker of Harvard, practically on the eve of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Islamic State's march across Syria and Iraq. Best-selling histories of World War I teach that nations don't willingly go to war but only "sleepwalk" into them due to tragic miscalculations or downright silliness. For a quarter-century, Americans have been told that at the end of history lies boredom rather than great conflict, that nations with McDonald's never fight one another, that economic interdependence and nuclear weapons make war among great powers unlikely if not impossible. Recently added to these nostrums has been the mantra of futility. "There is no military solution" is the constant refrain of Western statesmen regarding conflicts from Syria to Ukraine; indeed, military action only makes problems worse. Power itself isn't even what it used to be, argued the columnist Moisés Naím in a widely praised recent book. History has a way of answering such claims. The desire to escape from power is certainly not new; it has been the constant aspiration of Enlightenment liberalism for more than two centuries. The impossibility of war was conventional wisdom in the years before World War I, and it became conventional wisdom again—at least in Britain and the U.S.—practically the day after the war ended. Then as now, Americans and Britons solipsistically believed that everyone shared their disillusionment with war. They imagined that because war was horrible and irrational, as the Great War had surely demonstrated, no sane people would choose it. What happened next, as the peaceful 1920s descended into the violent and savage 1930s, may be instructive for our own time. Back then, the desire to avoid war—combined with the surety that no nation could rationally seek it—led logically and naturally to policies of appeasement. The countries threatening aggression, after all, had grievances, as most countries almost always do. They were "have-not" powers in a world dominated by the rich and powerful Anglo-Saxon nations, and they demanded a fairer distribution of the goods. In the case of Germany, resentment over the Versailles peace settlement smoldered because territories and populations once under Germany's control had been taken away to provide security for Germany's neighbors. In the case of Japan, the island power with the overflowing population needed control of the Asian mainland to survive and prosper in competition with the other great powers. So the liberal powers tried to reason with them, to understand and even accept their grievances and seek to assuage them, even if this meant sacrificing others—the Chinese and the Czechs, for instance—to their rule. It seemed a reasonable price, unfortunate though it might be, to avoid another catastrophic war. This was the realism of the 1930s. Eventually, however, the liberal powers discovered that the grievances of the "have-not" powers went beyond what even the most generous and conflict-averse could satisfy. The most fundamental grievance, it turned out, was that of being forced to live in a world shaped by others—to be German or Japanese in a world dominated by Anglo-Saxons. To satisfy this grievance would require more than marginal territorial or economic adjustments or even the sacrifice of a small and weak state here or there. It would require allowing the "have-not" powers to reshape the international political and economic order to suit their needs. More than that, it would require letting those powers become strong enough to dictate the terms of international order—for how else could they emerge from their unjust oppression? Finally, it became clear that more was going on than rational demands for justice, at least as the Enlightenment mind understood the term. It turned out that the aggressors' policies were the product not only of material grievances but of desires that transcended mere materialism and rationality. Their leaders, and to a great extent their publics, rejected liberal notions of progress and reason. They were moved instead by romantic yearnings for past glories or past orders and rejected Enlightenment notions of modernity. Their predatory or paranoid rulers either fatalistically accepted (in the case of Japan) or positively welcomed (in the case of Germany) armed conflict as the natural state of human affairs. By the time all this became unmistakably obvious to the liberal powers, by the time they realized that they were dealing with people who didn't think as they did, by the time they grasped that nothing short of surrender would avoid conflict and that giving the aggressors even part of what they demanded—Manchuria, Indochina, Czechoslovakia—only strengthened them without satisfying them, it was too late to avoid precisely the world war that Britain, France, the U.S. and others had desperately tried to prevent. This searing experience—not just World War II but also the failed effort to satisfy those who couldn't be satisfied—shaped U.S. policy in the postwar era. For the generations that shared this experience, it imposed a new and different sense of realism about the nature of humankind and the international system. Hopes for a new era of peace were tempered. American leaders and the American public generally if regretfully accepted the inescapable and tragic reality of power. They adopted the posture of armed liberalism. They built unimaginably destructive weapons by the thousands. They deployed hundreds of thousands of troops overseas, in the heart of Europe and along the rim of East Asia, to serve as forward deterrents to aggression. They fought wars in distant and largely unknown lands, sometimes foolishly and sometimes ineffectively but always with the idea—almost certainly correct—that failure to act against aggressors would only invite further aggression. In general, except for a brief bout of fatalism under President Richard Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, they were disinclined to assuage or even acknowledge the grievances of those who opposed them. (President Harry Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson, the architects of armed liberalism, never had much interest in bargaining with the Soviets, while President Ronald Reagan was interested chiefly in bargaining over the terms of their surrender.) Behind the actions of the U.S. architects of containment lay the belief, based on hard experience, that other peoples couldn't always be counted on to value what the liberal world valued—prosperity, human rights or even peace—and therefore the liberal world had to be constantly on its guard, well-armed and well-prepared against the next stirring of the non-liberal, atavistic urges that were a permanent feature of humankind. How much easier it was to maintain this tragic vigilance while the illiberal, conflict-based ideology of communism reigned across more than half of the Eurasian continent—and how much harder has it been to sustain that vigilance since the fall of communism seemingly ushered in a new era of universal liberalism, and with it the prospect, finally, of a Kantian peace in a world dominated by democracy. For a time in the 1990s, while the generations of World War II and the early Cold War survived, the old lessons still guided policy. President George H.W. Bush and his national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, sent half a million American troops to fight thousands of miles away for no other reason than to thwart aggression and restore a desert kingdom that had been invaded by its tyrant neighbor. Kuwait enjoyed no security guarantee with the U.S.; the oil wells on its lands would have been equally available to the West if operated by Iraq; and the 30-year-old emirate ruled by the al-Sabah family had less claim to sovereign nationhood than Ukraine has today. Nevertheless, as Mr. Bush later recalled, "I wanted no appeasement." A little more than a decade later, however, the U.S. is a changed country. Because of the experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, to suggest sending even a few thousand troops to fight anywhere for any reason is almost unthinkable. The most hawkish members of Congress don't think it safe to argue for a ground attack on the Islamic State or for a NATO troop presence in Ukraine. There is no serious discussion of reversing the cuts in the defense budget, even though the strategic requirements of defending U.S. allies in Europe, Asia and the Middle East have rarely been more manifest while America's ability to do so has rarely been more in doubt. But Americans, their president and their elected representatives have accepted this gap between strategy and capability with little comment—except by those who would abandon the strategy. It is as if, once again, Americans believe their disillusionment with the use of force somehow means that force is no longer a factor in international affairs. In the 1930s, this illusion was dispelled by Germany and Japan, whose leaders and publics very much believed in the utility of military power. Today, as the U.S. seems to seek its escape from power, others are stepping forward, as if on cue, to demonstrate just how effective raw power really can be. Once again, they are people who never accepted the liberal world's definition of progress and modernity and who don't share its hierarchy of values. They are not driven primarily by economic considerations. They have never put their faith in the power of soft power, never believed that world opinion (no matter how outraged) could prevent successful conquest by a determined military. They are undeterred by their McDonald's. They still believe in the old-fashioned verities of hard power, at home and abroad. And if they are not met by a sufficient hard-power response, they will prove that, yes, there is such a thing as a military solution. This lesson won't be lost on others who wield increasing power in other parts of the world and who, like Vladimir Putin's autocratic Russia and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's fanatical Islamic State, have grievances of their own. In the 1930s, when things began to go bad, they went very bad very quickly. Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931 exposed the hollow shell that was the League of Nations—a lesson acted upon by Hitler and Mussolini in the four years that followed. Then Germany's military successes in Europe emboldened Japan to make its move in East Asia on the not unreasonable assumption that Britain and the U.S. would be too distracted and overstretched to respond. The successive assaults of the illiberal aggressors, and the successive failures of the liberal powers, thus led to a cascade of disasters. The wise men and women of our own time insist that this history is irrelevant. They tell us, when they are not announcing America's irrevocable decline, that our adversaries are too weak to pose a real threat, even as they pile victory upon victory. Russia is a declining power, they argue. But then, Russia has been declining for 400 years. Can declining powers not wreak havoc? Does it help us to know that, in retrospect, Japan lacked the wealth and power to win the war it started in 1941? Let us hope that those who urge calm are right, but it is hard to avoid the impression that we have already had our 1931. As we head deeper into our version of the 1930s, we may be quite shocked, just as our forebears were, at how quickly things fall apart. This piece was originally published by Wall Street Journal. Authors Robert Kagan Publication: Wall Street Journal Image Source: © Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Full Article
dangerous The Dangerous Price of Ignoring Syria By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Vali Nasr says that President Obama has resisted American involvement in Syria because it challenges a central aim of his foreign policy: shrinking the U.S. footprint in the Middle East and downplaying the region’s importance to global politics. Nasr examines why doing more on Syria would reverse the U.S. retreat from the region. Full Article
dangerous American roads are dangerous by design, and more people are dying than ever before By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 13:46:35 -0500 "The time for complacency has passed. We must treat this crisis as if our lives, and the lives of our friends, families, and neighbors, depend on it. " Full Article Transportation
dangerous eCycleway - Safe Urban Cycling or Dangerous Segregation? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:24:24 -0400 It is an undisputed truth that the majority of American cities have incomplete bicycling infrastructures. This is perhaps especially true in Los Angeles, where Full Article Transportation
dangerous Leaked UN climate report warns of dangerous global warming. Will the world listen? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:53:50 -0400 The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was expected to delivery its fifth Assessment Report (AR5) next month, but over the past weekend, a draft of that report was leaked to Reuters, which reported the early findings. Full Article Science
dangerous Are people on bikes more dangerous than people in cars? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 15:06:08 -0400 In a word no. But people in cars seem to get a free pass for everything. Full Article Transportation
dangerous 10 barbecue foods dangerous for pets By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 25 May 2018 07:06:41 -0400 From ribs and onions to chips and corn, these barbecue-friendly foods can be unfriendly to dogs and cats. Full Article Living
dangerous Are backyard eggs really that dangerous? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:20:00 -0400 With an increase in salmonella cases this year, health officials are pointing the finger at hobby farmers, which isn't entirely fair. Full Article Living
dangerous Yeti robot scans polar ice to warn researchers of dangerous crevasses By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 07:00:00 -0400 The autonomous robot allows scientists to more safely study polar enviroments and also collects valuable information on ice conditions for climate research. Full Article Technology
dangerous Planting Trees in the Mongolian Desert to Fight Dangerous Dust Storms in Seoul By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:21:15 -0500 Korean activists are spearheading efforts to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there and the air quality their families are exposed to back home. Full Article Science
dangerous The EPA doesn't want Americans to know how dangerous Teflon chemicals are By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:03:00 -0400 The agency tried to suppress a major toxicology report on perfluoroalkyl chemicals, but now it's been quietly released online -- with alarming conclusions. Full Article Science
dangerous Homemade cat food can be dangerous for your pet By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 07 May 2019 09:15:11 -0400 A new study finds that most recipes for homemade cat food lack essential nutrients and even contain potentially toxic ingredients. Full Article Living
dangerous Dinosaur Comics on the most dangerous game: Driving By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:49:04 -0400 Ryan North points out that unlike most games, this one is lethal Full Article Transportation
dangerous The EPA just made toxic coal ash more dangerous By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:54:53 -0400 A giant wave of pollution glop in 2008 convinced the EPA to regulate coal dumps more closely. But the Trump administration is changing that. Full Article Business
dangerous These postage stamps are considered too dangerous for children's eyes By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:51:00 -0400 The US postal service is destroying the whole series because of safety concerns. Full Article Living
dangerous Pop Sensation Austin Mahone Asks Teens to #GetThereSafe during the Most Dangerous Months on the Road - Video (1) By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 29 Apr 2014 15:38:00 EDT Singer Austin Mahone teams up with The Allstate Foundation to encourage smart teen driving through its #GetThereSafe program. Full Article Auto Banking Financial Services Insurance Publishing Information Services Broadcast Feed Announcements Public Safety MultiVu Video
dangerous When environmental activism is more dangerous than being a soldier By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 09:00:00 -0400 A new study reveals that murder rates of environmental defenders have spiked in recent years. Full Article Living
dangerous Scientific American: As Trump Touts Dangerous Cures, Here's What We Know About COVID-19 Drug Tests By www.democracynow.org Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 08:50:26 -0400 President Trump dangerously suggested injecting disinfectants could help patients sick with the coronavirus, then said he was being "sarcastic." But his remarks led to a spike in calls to helplines about taking disinfectants. We look at "What We Know About the Most Touted Drugs Tested for COVID-19" with Tanya Lewis, associate editor for health and medicine at Scientific American. Full Article
dangerous Just How Dangerous Is the 'Murder Hornet'? By rss.sciam.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 15:00:00 GMT Its sting is excruciating to people, but it is a bigger threat to honeybees vital for agriculture -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Full Article Public Health Sustainability Environment Biology
dangerous The sun is too quiet, which may mean dangerous solar storms in future By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:00:24 +0000 Stars that are similar to the sun in every way we can measure are mostly more active than the sun, which hints that the sun’s activity may ramp up someday, risking solar eruptions Full Article
dangerous Stars in the Milky Way's centre often get dangerously close together By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 07:00:30 +0000 About 80 per cent of stars in the Milky Way’s central bulge have relatively close encounters with another star, which can fling off any planets orbiting them Full Article
dangerous India coronavirus: Why celebrating Covid-19 'success models' is dangerous By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 23:02:05 GMT Experts tell the BBC that euphoria over success models runs the risk of people becoming complacent. Full Article
dangerous Game Review: Yakuza 6 is a fitting end to mafiosi Kazuma Kiryu's dangerous journ By www.mid-day.com Published On :: 13 May 2018 02:15:43 GMT Yakuza 6 is the final chapter in the Kazuma Kiryu saga and the debut of a new engine for the game. For those who have never played Yakuza before, there is a handy back story that you can read through complete with choice visuals from the previous game. Even without the story mode, the game is self-sufficient and you won't feel like you are missing something. It plays out like a melodramatic Japanese movie — there are lots of cut-scenes and it will be a while before you go around breaking bones and destroying property. Fortunately, the story is decent enough to keep you engaged, considering it is around 30 hours long. For the uninitiated, you play Kazuma Kiryu, a yakuza, who is part of the Japanese mafiosi. The idea of the game is to go around completing the tasks assigned in the story mode. However, you are also in Japan, which means there are many fun distractions to while away time. In the past, these distractions have been many and made Yakuza a game that you could play forever. In Yakuza 6, however, the side activities are few, but they are well made. Some choices are playing mahjong, working out, playing baseball, visiting a hostess bar or a cat café. The biggest addition to the side activities is the Clan Creator mini-game, where you direct gang members in a top down view of a brawl. You can add special characters to your clan, by defeating them in combat. This mini-game is a lot of fun, even though defeating your foes is often too easy. The overall combat in Yakuza is also super easy. Kiryu is capable of handling multiple thugs with just a few basic moves. You can pick up anything off the street and use it as a weapon. Building rage can trigger special moves, which is essentially just beating people senseless with whatever you have in your hand. The simplicity of combat makes it easy to learn, but it can get repetitive after a while. Visually, the new engine shows off the cut-scenes and characters really shine through. The motion is seamless and once you are in an area, the game never stutters. Japan is recreated beautifully, it is like you are roaming the streets of the country. You can enter stores, narrow lanes and explore anything that is on the map. The game is a fitting end to the story of Kazuma Kiryu. The top-notch storytelling and the graphics more than do justice to the Yakuza series. More side activities and layered combat could have kept the game interesting beyond the main storyline, but despite all of this, Yakuza manages to entertain. Yakuza 6: The Song of LifeRating: 4/5Developer: SegaPublisher: SegaPlatform: PS4Price: Rs 2,999 Catch up on all the latest Mumbai news, crime news, current affairs, and also a complete guide on Mumbai from food to things to do and events across the city here. Also download the new mid-day Android and iOS apps to get latest updates Full Article
dangerous Toxic Mahul too dangerous for quarantined Mumbaikars By www.mid-day.com Published On :: 3 May 2020 01:45:07 GMT On April 3, welfare groups across the city, along with medical professionals and lawyers, issued a press release demanding the immediate withdrawal of the civic body's plans to convert any building in Mahul into a quarantine centre. They cited health concerns, due to the neighbourhood's high pollution levels. And yet, a month on, nearly 30 residents of Panchsheel chawl in Govandi's Lumbini Baug have been shifted to a makeshift quarantine facility at Videocon Society, Mahul. The residents had come in contact with a 55-year-old woman from their basti, whose cause of death was posthumously ruled as COVID-19. The quarantine centre, where residents of Chembur's Cheetah Camp have also been shifted, houses approximately 100 people. The building's first and second floors are currently being used as a quarantine facility, with not more than two people to a room. The chawl residents say that the place lacks basic amenities such as running and drinking water as well as the presence of permanent medical staff. The premises is also covered with dust, has shabby sanitation facilities. Further, there has been no segregation between children and adults so far. Smoke coming from a nearby oil refinery pollutes the area's air The April 3 press note states that Mahul has been declared "uninhabitable" by at least two Indian courts "given the toxic environment due to the presence of polluting industries." Citing hazardous air quality conditions, it further reads: "Mahul is completely unfit for human habitation, much less for treatment and care. To establish a quarantine centre in Mahul would not be beneficial from the health point of view, but would prove detrimental towards efforts taken by MCGM to control this pandemic." Residents say the water is dirty and the toilets not fit for use. They argue that they were better off at their chawl A 22-year-old resident of Lumbini Baug says, "One of the main problems is the amount of dust. If there was any running water, we ourselves would have washed the premises. This dust can cause sneezing and coughing among people who have allergies or weak immune systems." He adds, "There is no running water in the toilets. At home, we were at least taking our own Vitamin C tablets, maintain a healthy diet, and eating nutritious food. We expected basic facilities at the centre. There is also no permanent medical staff present here. We have not received any therapy or medical treatment yet." Advocate Lara Jesani, one of the signatories to the April 3 press note, says: "It is dangerous for people to be quarantined in Mahul because of the high level of pollution in the area. The place is congested and poorly planned and therefore creates health hazards for people who may already have a weak immune system, making it harder for them to cope with the virus." M East Ward Assistant Commissioner Sudhanshu Dwivedi refused to comment or discuss the issue. Bilal Khan of the Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan says, "In cases filed by us, the High Court has passed two orders declaring Mahul polluted and unfit for habitation and hence, directed the government to shift the Mahul residents to an environmentally safe place. Coronavirus causes severe acute respiratory syndrome." The faulty design and poor sanitation of the Mahul buildings [as established from CSA report] can also result in further spread of infection, thereby endangering the residents. "Without trying other abundantly available options it is shocking that the government has sent people to such a toxic environment and that too, as a quarantine measure." Catch up on all the latest Mumbai news, crime news, current affairs, and a complete guide from food to things to do and events across Mumbai. Also download the new mid-day Android and iOS apps to get latest updates. Mid-Day is now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel (@middayinfomedialtd) and stay updated with the latest news Full Article
dangerous CR, WR turn lockdown to their advantage, fix old, dangerous bridges By www.mid-day.com Published On :: 5 May 2020 01:41:17 GMT Finally, city's old and dangerous road overbridges got the much-needed attention, thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown. Central Railway and Western Railway turned the restriction on public's movement to its advantage by fixing the bridges along their respective lines. While CR completed work on Byculla road bridge, National Highway bridge at Kasara and the busy road overbridge at Kopar, WR fixed a bridge crossing the lines at Dharavi and the one in Andheri is near-completion. 26 days to fix Byulla bridgeThe old Byculla road overbridge was patched up with 70 bracket fixtures over the past 26 days at a cost of R13.811 lakh; the complete project was worth R1.13 crore. "Without lockdown, it would have taken more than two months to finish the work," a senior official pointed out. CR fixed the bridge near Umbermali station with the help of National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) in the last four days of April "On Western Railway, work on strengthening the important Dharavi bridge girders was completed during the lockdown. In addition, one span of Andheri pipeline bridge was strengthened," WR's chief spokesperson Ravinder Bhakar said. CR takes NHAI helpAnother important work on CR was to patch up the road overbridge near Umbermali in Kasara, which had been declared dangerous in the IIT-Bombay survey. The bridge was fixed in the last four days of April, taking advantage of the lockdown and with assistance from the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). The bridge near Umbermali station of Mumbai suburban railway was taken up for repairs following the joint recommendation of the IIT-B and the railways. CR sought the NHAI's assistance since the bridge passes under the Mumbai-Agra National Highway near Shirol village, over the rail lines between Umbermali and Kasara stations. The work involved repair of the slab upgrade, removing and relaying concrete, dismantling of about two metres of parapet wall and recasting it firmly. Work sans disruptionAn official involved in the upgrade said the work was completed in just a few days and involved no train cancellations. "We called 15 labourers from the NHAI and seven from the railways, and all the problems raised in the IIT survey were resolved," he added. Additionally, the dismantling and upgrade work of road overbridge at Kopar has also been taken up in co-ordination with Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation. Had there been no lockdown, the work would have required a block leading to disruption in services of numerous local and outstation trains. "Initially, it was decided to use diamond cutters that would have required 45 days with two hours of daily blocks at night. Now, during the lockdown, it's being done with concrete breaker, in day time. Work started on April 17," an official said. "The lockdown has given us an opportunity to renew and pump energy into the old infrastructure," CR's chief public relations officer Shivaji Sutar said. In 2019, CR and WR had identified weak and corrosive bridges along the lines with the help of IIT-B teams. The joint safety audit has being conducted of all the 445 road overbridges and foot overbridges in Mumbai in order to ensure commuters' safety. Catch up on all the latest Mumbai news, crime news, current affairs, and a complete guide from food to things to do and events across Mumbai. Also download the new mid-day Android and iOS apps to get latest updates. Mid-Day is now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel (@middayinfomedialtd) and stay updated with the latest news Full Article
dangerous Dangerous Killer By Published On :: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 13:33:24 GMT Aman, Komal, Kavya, Sunny, Rhea, Nishant and Darsheel go to a resort which Aman’s father is desirous of purchasing. On the way to the resort, the seven friends see a mysterious lady in a white saree, roaming in the jungle. A tantrik warns them that a ghost roams in the area and she thirsts for human blood. The friends reach the resort and are welcomed by maid Sheela. They enjoy themselves at the resort but sometimes see the lady in the white saree. They go to the jungle where they are attacked by someone. The friends soon return to the resort. Then, one by one, murders start taking place. Sunny, Rhea, Sheela and caretaker Guruji are murdered one after another. The tantrik is also murdered. The police finally solves the mystery. Who is the murderer? What’s the killer’s motive in killing so many people? Full Article
dangerous Sourav Ganguly on COVID-19 pandemic: Current situation is like Test match on dangerous wicket By www.mid-day.com Published On :: 3 May 2020 06:45:29 GMT BCCI president Sourav Ganguly is deeply saddened and intimidated by the devastation caused because of the COVID-19 pandemic and has equated the unprecedented crisis to playing a Test match on a dangerous wicket. The decorated former player opened up on life under lockdown due to the novel coronavirus pandemic that has claimed over 2.40 lakh lives across the world while infecting more than 34 lakh people. "This situation is a Test match on a very dangerous wicket. The ball is seaming and spinning as well - the batsman has very little margin of error," Ganguly said while speaking on '100 Hours 100 Stars', an initiative started by Fever Network. "So, the batsman has to score runs and keep his wicket safe with this little margin of error, and win this Test match," he added. A winner of innumerable fierce battles during his playing days when there was no dearth of fearsome fast bowlers and quality spinners, Ganguly was tempted to draw a parallel between the tough moments in the sport and the health crisis. "This is very difficult, but we hope that we will win this match together," he added. Ganguly expressed his sadness at the number of lives lost in the pandemic and the irreparable damage that it has caused. "I am really upset seeing the current situation, because so many people are suffering outside. We are still struggling to understand how to stop this pandemic," he said. "This atmosphere all over the world has really bothered me. We don't know how, when and where it came from - we all were unprepared for this," he added. Not just upset, Ganguly conceded he cannot help feeling a big scared of what's unfolding because of the disease. "People are being affected by this so much. There have been so many deaths. This situation upsets me, and I also feel scared," he said. "People come to my house to deliver groceries, food, so I feel a little scared as well. So it's a mixed feeling. I just want this to end as quickly as possible," he added, He said cricket has taught him to face tough situations in life and the importance of staying alert at all times. Asked how he keeps himself positive, the former captain said: "Cricket has taught me a lot. I faced real life, high-pressure situations. You have to make runs and there is just one ball left. "If you make one wrong move, one wrong footwork, you will not get another chance. These kind of situations make you alert and aware about real life situations," he said. The BCCI chief, though, also added that he is getting to spend a lot of time with his family after a long time. "It's been a month into the lockdown. I didn't mind it earlier. Earlier, I wouldn't get time at home like this. My lifestyle involved travelling for work everyday. "For the past 30-32 days, I have been at home with my family, spending time with my wife, daughter, my mother and my brother. "I have got a time like this after long, so I am enjoying myself," he said. Catch up on all the latest sports news and updates here. Also download the new mid-day Android and iOS apps to get latest updates. Mid-Day is now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel (@middayinfomedialtd) and stay updated with the latest news This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever Full Article
dangerous Chemo Still A Good Option For Dangerous Childhood Brain Cancer Despite Failures By www.medindia.net Published On :: There are no targeted therapies or immunotherapies proven effective to treat pediatric brain cancer better than chemotherapy. In fact, chemotherapy has Full Article
dangerous Sink Drains Near Toilets in Hospital Rooms Harbor Dangerous Bacteria By www.medindia.net Published On :: iKlebsiella pneumoniae/i carbapenemase (KPC) is commonly found in sinks located near patients toilets in hospital rooms. These sinks act as reservoirs Full Article
dangerous Elevated Blood Sugar in Pregnancy Dangerous for Mothers, Babies By www.medindia.net Published On :: Women who had elevated fasting glucose, adjusted for all other risk factors, were almost three times more likely to have a big baby than women who had Full Article
dangerous Inhibiting Thrombin can Protect Against Dangerous Newborn Digestive Disease By www.medindia.net Published On :: Inhibiting the inflammatory and blood-clotting molecule thrombin with targeted nanotherapy could protect against Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)-like injury in newborn, reports a new mice study. Full Article
dangerous Annexation: the return of a dangerous idea By www.ft.com Published On :: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:28:38 GMT It is not illegitimate to change borders, but it must be done through negotiation Full Article
dangerous A dangerous US-China blame game will do no good By www.ft.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 13:21:42 GMT An inquiry into the origins of Covid-19 is needed if important lessons are to be learnt Full Article
dangerous Companies are dangerously drunk on debt By www.ft.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 10:00:26 GMT Sobering up after the crisis will require changes to tax laws, bonuses and pensions Full Article
dangerous Trump’s re-election would be dangerous for the world By www.ft.com Published On :: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:20:53 GMT The notion of the west as an alliance with moral foundations would evaporate if the president wins Full Article
dangerous Terror-fighter Chris Christie slams Rand Paul and other 'dangerous' libertarians, in a preview of the liberty-vs-security squabble that will dominate the GOP in 2016 By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 19:13:55 GMT Paul is blocking President Obama's choice to lead the FBI until he gets answers about how, when and how often federal law enforcement spies on us from above Full Article
dangerous Optical illusions get hearts racing as they're mistaken for dangerous situations By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 19:36:36 GMT Bored Panda has rounded up a selection of amusing images of optical illusions from around the world that have sparked terror, including a rug which on first glance appears to be a tiger. Full Article
dangerous Prostate screening should be rolled out for men with a dangerous gene mutation By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 08:07:00 GMT The Institute of Cancer Research in London study comes after Sir Rod Stewart urged men to get checked for prostate cancer after revealing he had treatment for the disease. Full Article
dangerous The 'sun screen' cosmetics swindle: How make-up products that claim to protect against sun damage can leave you dangerously exposed By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:58:27 GMT Exclusive research for the Daily Mail has shown that most of us get only a fraction of the protection we think we're getting from our cosmetics and as a result we are putting ourselves at serious risk of skin damage. Full Article
dangerous Man Utd striker Radamel Falcao hails Sergio Aguero as Manchester City's most dangerous player By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 12:15:39 GMT Manchester United's Radamel Falcao believes Manchester City counterpart Sergio Aguero is his side's biggest threat ahead of Sunday's derby at Old Trafford. Full Article
dangerous 'Dangerous and erratic' driver Dane Wheway who caused horror crash that killed father is jailed By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 23:19:59 GMT Dane Wheway, 25, caused a horrific crash which killed Jeremy Harvey on the M1 north of Sydney in March 2018. He was driving his Ford Ranger 'dangerously and erratically'. Full Article
dangerous Martin Keown's Sweden scouting report: Forsberg could be dangerous By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 21:36:47 GMT Ahead of Saturday's World Cup quarter-final in Samara, Sportsmail's MARTIN KEOWN takes a look at the likely Sweden XI who will be out to stop Gareth Southgate's Three Lions. Full Article
dangerous World Rugby chief hits back at Ireland coach Joe Schmidt's claims that 31-man squads are dangerous By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:03:29 GMT World Rugby bosses have hit back at claims 31-man World Cup squads threaten player welfare by insisting top coaches left their objections too late to have any effect for the 2019 tournament in Japan. Full Article
dangerous doyoutravel Jack Morris under fire for his 'dangerous' picture hanging off the edge of a balcony By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 01:54:05 GMT A travel blogger has come under fire on social media for posing in a 'dangerous' stunt after posting a picture of himself hanging off a hotel balcony in Bangkok, Thailand. Full Article
dangerous Laura Trott: careless cyclists give us a bad name! Olympic gold medalist hits out at dangerous bikers By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 08:45:11 GMT The London 2012 champion said accidents involving cars and cyclists 'aren't always the car's fault'. Full Article
dangerous Warnings of 'flying debris' and dangerous flooding as 70mph winds set to batter Britain tomorrow By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:21:47 GMT Severe weather is predicted to hit large swathes of southern England and Wales from around 6am on Saturday affecting cities including Cardiff, Plymouth, Bristol, and London. Full Article
dangerous The top 7 movies on Netflix this week, from 'Den of Thieves' to 'Dangerous Lies' By www.businessinsider.in Published On :: 8 May 2020, 23:50 Full Article
