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Recent Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) investigations and Wired interviews with 11 on-site medical representatives (OMRs) who have worked at Amazon’s on-site first aid clinic, known as AmCare, “describe a system that can put employees at risk of further injury by keeping them working instead of referring them to appropriate medical care”.OMRs, typically emergency medical technicians, have sometimes been encouraged to steer workers toward in-house treatment.“Everything that we were doing was kind of pseudo-medical, enough to have the gloss of being medical,” an EMT (emergency medical technician) who worked in a Nevada AmCare was quoted as saying.“When we’re in…

The Central government has joined hands with the Tamil Nadu state government to set up 18 Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETP) and Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) systems in Tiruppur, the textile capital of South India.Sources in the Tamil Nadu government told IANS that an amount of Rs 703 crore has been earmarked for setting up the new effluent treatment plants and ZLDs.The Tamil Nadu government will also be conducting research to dispose of the salt accumulated in the Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETP), in Tiruppur.A committee of senior technocrats, including scientists have been constituted to finalise the technology provider to…

Officials at Indian Coast Guard said that considering the best feasible options for speedy evacuation and subsequent medical management, the patient was airlifted by CG ALH MK-III, and was administered with first aid. Hewas later transferred to agent of the vessel for further medical management.According to the Indian Coast Guard, the Chinese national was rescued from a Panama flagged research vessel, MV Dong Fang Kan Tan No 2. This is situated around 200 Kms in the Arabian sea off Mumbai on the intervening night of August 16-17.The rescue team informed that the evacuation was carried out amid challenging weather conditions…

“Every day we are a little bit more heartbroken because we do have to report that more of our loved ones have been confirmed lost and deceased,” Xinhua news agency quoted Green as saying at a press conference late Wednesday night.The Governor added that about 38 per cent of the burned area has been searched, while around 2,200 structures in Maui, 86 per cent of them residential, have either been completely destroyed or damaged.Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said on Tuesday that he hopes searchers will have covered 85 to 90 per cent of the area by the weekend.The wildfires,…

New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) On paper, India’s T20Is against Ireland from August 18 are less significant than the Men’s ODI World Cup happening from October 5 to November 19. But the comebacks of Jasprit Bumrah and Prasidh Krishna in the T20I series is an important boost for India’s fast-bowling options from the ODI World Cup perspective. Both Bumrah and Prasidh underwent back surgeries and did their rehab at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru. They played some practice games and are now almost ready to play international cricket again.Lakshmipathy Balaji is interested in seeing how Bumrah and Prasidh…

San Francisco, Aug 17 (IANS) The recent wave of layoffs at Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has reportedly impacted the streaming marketing team at HBO and Max.A source close to the situation told Variety on Wednesday that the number of layoffs is in the double digits, and it doesn’t affect the company’s content division.The layoffs represent the most recent downsizing measure at WBD brands, which have been cutting employees since the merged company was formed in April last year.WBD had launched the combined HBO Max-Discovery+ streaming service on May 23 this year.In the first quarter, WBD gave a heads-up to investors that…

Schmidt has hired two distinguished scientists — Samuel Rodriques, founder of the Applied Biotechnology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute and Andrew White, a pioneer in the use of AI in chemistry — to run the nonprofit initiative, reports Semafor. According to the report, the effort is similar to Microsoft-backed OpenAI which developed ChatGPT. “Funding will come mostly from Schmidt’s personal wealth, but outside funds may be necessary given the ambition of the project,” the report claimed, citing people familiar with the plans. The project is still in early stages and exact plans could change. In a recent article in…

Kamya Punjabi is known to add life to whatever roles she plays. Her portrayal of the character Preeto in the show ‘Shakti- Astitva ke Ehsaas ki’ was loved and admired by everyone. The actress is now playing the role of Didun who is the Maharani of the biggest Red Light area in Kolkata and she is getting immense love from the audience for the role.In an exclusive interview, the actress spoke about the show and her character and said, “When I first heard the role of Didun I was skeptical about it because prior to this I had played the…

Musk has fathered at least 10 children with three women, including the pop star Grimes and a top executive at his brain-implant firm Neuralink.The 52-year-old tech billionaire gave the money to the Population Wellbeing Initiative (PWI), a project housed at the University of Texas at Austin, through his charitable arm the Musk Foundation, reports Bloomberg.The X owner recently funded a two-day PWI conference.A joint programme between the University of Texas at Austin’s Population Research Center and its economics department, the PWI’s website describes it as “a network of researchers” who conduct foundational work in economics, demography and social welfare evaluation.Musk…

A screenshot posted by Andrea Conway, a designer at X, suggests that the feature will allow users toattach specific timestamps to a post’s description, allowing viewers to easily navigate to precise moments within a video.Conway didn’t specify when the feature will roll out publicly, or if it will be limited to X Premium subscribers. Several users expressed their thoughts on Conway’s post.When a user said: “Nice! Do you know if there are any plans to show timestamps somewhere when video is playing (currently only shows when scrubbing I think on mobile),” she said in response: “Ya! looking at some fit…