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Discarded laptops and smartphones contain valuable metals. However, extraction, usually performed by children, is a crude and hazardous process that goes unregulated.

The prohibitory orders were imposed in the wake of the ongoing protest in the city by youths against irregularities in recruitment examinations in the state that turned violent on Thursday.

Seymour Hersh reported that divers from the US Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center planted the explosives that were later detonated remotely on September 26, 2022. Earlier investigations by Denmark and Sweden had already confirmed sabotage.

Over 5,000 people have been reported dead so far and thousands more injured in Turkey and Syria in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Monday.

There is no more talk in Western media about destroying the Russian “war machinery” or an insurrection against the Kremlin and a regime change.

In this episode of Padtal Duniya Bhar Ki journalist Bhasha Singh spoke to Prabir Purkayastha, editor-in-chief of NewsClick, on the devastating earthquake in Turkey-Syria and America's non-removal of sanctions from Syria.

Family members of the deceased alleged the edible oil factory management did not provide proper security gear to the workers.

On January 27, Ayaz Akhtar, 7, was ‘forced to’ stand in class for 4 hours with hands up for failing to pay school fees, his father alleged.

The murder of yet another young Iraqi woman by family members has revived the debate about laws on domestic violence there. But even activists admit overcoming such violence in Iraq requires a lot more than legislation.

Activists also demanded dissolution of a Maharashtra government panel to study and gather information on inter-faith and inter-caste marriages.

Several governments or government entities play a double game of enforcing some drug laws while ignoring others. Their reasons vary, and history proves it will be difficult to stop.

Musharraf, 79, lived in self-imposed exile in the UAE to avoid criminal charges against him in Pakistan, died after a prolonged illness at the American Hospital in Dubai.