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1 Million Dead in 25 Years: Arsenic Contamination is Increasing Cancer Risks Across 200 Indian Cities
In a file photo from 2004, a woman from West Bengal shows her wrinkled hands, a condition caused by drinking arsenic-contaminated water. (Reuters)
Studies suggest that early 10 million people in India have been exposed to groundwater contaminated with arsenic.
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Seventy-year-old Priya Brath Sharma from Bihar’s Munger district, who has been bedridden for many years, is one among a million cases of arsenic poisoning reported in India. “I have stopped walking for many years as the lower body doesn’t move. I also went to AIIMS for treatment some years back, they said that it was Arsenic-related disease,” he said.
IPS Officer Lipi Singh Accused Of Ordering Cops To Fire On Durga Immersion Procession, Becomes Saharsa SP
IPS Officer Lipi Singh (Twitter)
Controversial IPS Officer Lipi Singh who has been accused of ordering cops to fire on devotees participating in a Durga immersion procession, has been appointed as the new Saharsa Superintendent of Police (SP),
India Today has reported.
On 26 October a
member of a Durga Puja immersion ceremony died due to a bullet wound in Bihar s Munger town. The deceased was identified as 18-year-old Anurag Kumar Poddar who suffered a fatal bullet wound to his head.
The cops were accused of first thrashing and brutally lathi-charging devotees. Later the cops are said to have fired gunshots in the air allegedly on the orders of Lipi Singh.