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The Hindu
4 days ago
- General
- The Hindu
Kerala shipwreck: NGT asks shipping firm MSC to clarify hazardous cargo in sunken Liberia-flagged vessel
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stated that Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) that owned the Liberia-flagged container vessel MSC Elsa 3 that sank off the Kochi coast on May 25, 2025 was expected to clarify on the contents of the hazardous cargo in the 13 of the 640 containers. An order dated May 27, 2025 issued by the Principal Bench of the tribunal in New Delhi pointed out that there were chances of serious impact to the marine and coastal environment affecting the biodiversity and water quality of the area as the sunken ship was carrying hazardous materials such as calcium carbide, oil and other undisclosed items. The Bench, comprising Prakash Shrivastava, chairperson, and A. Senthil Vel, expert member, said that the incident violated the provisions under the Biodiversity Act, 2002; Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and the Environment Protection Act, 1986. Suo motu cognisance The order was issued after the tribunal took suo motu cognisance of the report titled Containers from sunken ship likely to drift towards Alappuzha, Kollam Coasts in 48 hours: INCOIS published in The Hindu. 'On account of wave, wind and current actions of the waters, these pollutants can travel to other coastal parts of the country, including Lakshadweep islands, affecting them. The impact on the Lakshadweep island will be severe as the island coastal water has high bio-diversity with corals,' it said. The Bench has asked the Member Secretaries of the Central Pollution Control Board, Lakshadweep Pollution Control Committee, Kerala State Pollution Control Board; Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; Secretary, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways; Director General, Indian Coast Guard: and Director, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) to submit their responses on the shipwreck one week before the next hearing on July 30, 2025. Besides the 13 containers with hazardous cargo, the vessel was carrying 12 containers having calcium carbide. It was also loaded with 84.44 MT of diesel and 367.1 MT of furnace oil, according to official estimates.
CNN
21-05-2025
- Business
- CNN
Expert: 3 finance mistakes women are more likely to make in their lifetime
Did you know that women couldn't have their own credit cards until 1974? Haley Sacks, known as 'Mrs. Dow Jones' and the creator of The Money Book 2.0, shares the three ways women can secure their financial future.
Times
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Sparks: ‘We can't understand why other brother acts have so much trouble'
There is a song on the new Sparks album, the appropriately titled Mad!, called JanSport Backpack. 'She wears a JanSport backpack,' observes Russell Mael, who at 76 has somehow retained the borderline hysterical countertenor that first fascinated a nation when Sparks performed This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us on Top of the Pops in 1974. John Lennon was so stunned by the sight of the pretty, curly-haired Russell performing the operatic hit with his unsmiling, toothbrush moustache-sporting brother, Ron, he is said to have called up Ringo Starr and told him that Marc Bolan was doing a song with Adolf Hitler. JanSport Backpack is typical Sparks: taking a mundane aspect of life and imbuing it with significance of preposterous proportions.
Wall Street Journal
16-05-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
America Needs a Supply-Side Comeback
Soon after Gerald Ford became president in 1974, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld—both serving in the White House—met economist Art Laffer and Wall Street Journal editorial writer Jude Wanniski for dinner at a Washington restaurant to discuss their disagreement with the president's support for raising taxes. Mr. Laffer sketched a bow on a napkin depicting the relationship between tax rates and government revenue—the eponymous Laffer Curve. It depicts the proposition that tax revenue rises with marginal tax rates only up to a point—beyond which revenue starts to decline as people work and invest less. Mr. Laffer scribbled on the napkin: 'If you tax a product less results. If you subsidize a product more results. We've been taxing work, output and income and subsidizing non-work, leisure and un-employment. The consequences are obvious!'
Daily Mail
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Everyone knew billionaire Barry Diller was gay... Hollywood's OTHER open secret about his dark obsessions is far more shocking
It was, as Hollywood billionaire Barry Diller poetically remembers it, 'the coup de foudre of our first ferocious love'. The first time he met the 'deliriously glamorous' fashion queen Diane von Furstenberg at a super-smart Manhattan dinner party in 1974, she'd rudely brushed the reserved movie man aside to talk to someone else.
