MLA attempts forcible enforcement of bandh in Yadgir
Bangalore: While the Karnataka Bandh called for the farmers' loan waiver reportedly evoked the lukewarm response in many parts of the state, in some places MLAs are allegedly attempting forcible enforcement of bandh.
BJP MLA of Bidar Venkata Reddi Mudnal forcibly shut down shops in Yadgir. It is said that a hotel opened during the bandh was forcibly closed.
"I am MLA of this area. You should listen what I am telling,” Mudnal who thronged the hotel along with workers threatened the owner and consumers.
The police detained protestors including MP GM Siddeshwara and BJP activists in Davangere. A protest led by BJP district president Shivraj Sajjan was held in Haveri. They attempted to forcibly shut down the shops.
MLAs Pratap Singh and MLA Ramdas, who were protesting near Gandhi Circle, were taken into custody by the police in Mysore.
Miscreants pelted stones at three buses near court in Dharwad. Following which, glass panes of the buses were completely damaged.
Bus services have suddenly been stopped in Koppal because of which passengers travelling to far places are suffering. MP Sanganna Karadi and his son Amresh Karadi engaged in heated arguments with police.
MLA and former Speaker Bopaiah along with other BJP activists disrupted the vehicular movement by parking their vehicles at Thimmayya Circle in Madikeri.
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Bhopal gas tragedy: Effects of leak seen in next generation of survivors, says ex-forensic doctor
Bhopal (PTI): The effects of poisonous gases that leaked from the Union Carbide factory in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal 40 years ago were seen in the next generations of those who survived the tragedy, a former government forensic doctor has said.
At least 3,787 people were killed, and more than five lakh were affected after a toxic gas leaked from the pesticide factory in the city on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984.
Speaking at an event held by organisations of gas tragedy survivors on Saturday, Dr D K Satpathy, former head of the forensics department of Bhopal's Gandhi Medical College, said he performed 875 post-mortems on the first day of the disaster and witnessed 18,000 autopsies the next five years.
Sathpathy claimed Union Carbide had denied questions about the effects of poisonous gases on unborn children of women survivors and said effects would not cross the placental barrier in the womb in any condition.
He said blood samples of pregnant women who died in the tragedy were examined, and it was found that 50 per cent of poisonous substances found in the mother were also found in the child in her womb.
Children born to surviving mothers had the poisonous substances in their system, and this affected the health of the next generation, Sathpathy claimed and questioned why research on this was stopped.
Such effects will continue for generations, he said.
Satpathy said it was said that MIC gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant, and when it came in contact with water, thousands of gases were formed, and some of these caused cancer, blood pressure and liver damage.
Rachna Dhingra of Bhopal Group for Information and Action said Satpathy, who carried out most autopsies, and other first responders in the 1984 disaster, including the senior doctors in the emergency ward and persons involved in mass burials, narrated their experiences during the event.
Rashida Bee, president of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmchari Sangh, a poster exhibition covering every aspect of the disaster will be held till December 4 to mark the 40th anniversary of the tragedy.
An anniversary rally will be organised, with focus on global corporate crimes such as industrial pollution and climate change, she said.
