Kamala Mills: Fire at Mumbai complex kills 15 people
A massive late night fire that broke out at a Mumbai complex has killed at least 15 people, officials said.
The blaze erupted just after midnight at a building in the popular Kamala Mills restaurant and shopping compound. It engulfed the structure within 30 minutes, local media reported.
More people have been injured in the blaze, with several being treated in hospital.
The fire started at the 1 Above rooftop restaurant, media reported.
According to the Times of India, many of the guests tried to seek shelter in the bathroom and were trapped there. The paper also cites a hospital doctor saying that all the deaths were due to suffocation.
American reams: why a ‘paperless world’ still hasn’t happened
In a world seduced by screens, the future of paper might seem uncertain. But many in the industry remain optimistic – after all, you can’t blow your nose on an email. By David J Unger
Old Mohawk paper company lore has it that in 1946, a salesman named George Morrison handed his client in Boston a trial grade of paper so lush and even, so uniform and pure, that the client could only reply: “George, this is one super fine sheet of paper.” And thus Mohawk Superfine was born.
This premium paper has been a darling of the printing and design world ever since. “Superfine is to paper what Tiffany’s is to diamonds,” Jessica Helfand, co-founder of Design Observer magazine once said. “If that sounds elitist, then so be it. It is perfect in every way.”
Mohawk tells the Superfine origin story every chance it gets: on their website, in press releases, in promotional videos and in their own lush magazine, Mohawk Maker Quarterly. And now Ted O’Connor, Mohawk’s senior vice president and general manager of envelope and converting, is telling it again. He sits on an ottoman in a hotel suite on the 24th floor of what a plaque outside declares is “The Tallest Building in the World with an All-Concrete Structure”. It’s day one, hour zero of Paper2017 in Chicago, the annual three-day event at which the industry, its suppliers and its clients come together to network and engage in “timely sessions on emerging issues”. Attendees are rolling in and registering, and the Mohawk team is killing time before wall-to-wall meetings.The US is pursuing two contradictory strategies with North Korea and it could lead to nuclear war
This is often how armies function, as I remember from my own military service
Since it opened in Berlin in 2015, Ferdinand von Schirach’s Terrorbecame a global hit, with hundreds of stagings all around the world, as well as an unending flow of ethical debates in mass media.
It is a court drama, the report of the trial against Lars Koch, a German fighter pilot who has shot down a Lufthansa plane that has been hijacked by a terrorist; the plane was heading for a stadium of 70,000 people (watching a Germany-England game), and Koch’s pragmatic decision – one in which he broke the constitutional law – was to end the lives of 164 people on the plane rather than allow the terrorist to slaughter a far greater number at the stadium.
Five inspiring stories of our Observers taking action to help the world in 2017
All around the world, individuals, organisations and small companies are taking action to fight for women's rights, the environment, the rights and dignity of refugees and many more worthy causes. We look back on five intiatives that we put in the spotlight as part of our Observers Take Action series in 2017.
ENVIRONMENT In Ivory Coast, locals give their streets a new lick of paint
In April 2017, residents of Treichville, a borough in Ivory Coast's capital Abidjan, had had enough of their dilapidated, dirty neighbourhood. So they rolled up their sleeves and got to work - slapping a new lick of paint on every street, from the pavements right up to the eaves of houses. The project was recognised by the government, and when it had been finished, the Minister of Urban Hygiene Anne Ouloto and the country's first lady Dominique Ouattara came to the town to personally congratulate the workers.
Angry Venezuelans take to streets for 'pork revolution' protests
Updated 0251 GMT (1051 HKT) December 29, 2017
President Nicolas Maduro has accused Portugal of being behind a pork shortage that left thousands of Venezuela's poor without their traditional Christmas dinner and sparked a fresh round of angry street protests.
On Wednesday Maduro announced he had been unable to distribute thousands of pork hind legs to the poorest neighborhoods in the country -- as he had promised earlier in the month. And he put the blame squarely on Portugal.
"What happened to the pork?" Maduro asked during a Wednesday televised address. "They sabotaged us. I can name a country: Portugal."
Japan considers regulations to keep drones away from U.S. military bases
The Japanese government is considering regulating the use of drones above U.S. military facilities in the country, following a request by the U.S. forces overseeing the Asia-Pacific region, a government source said.
Japan has a law that bans drones from being flown over key facilities such as the prime minister's office and the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. But U.S. military facilities are not explicitly mentioned as restricted areas, according to the transport ministry.
The Defense Ministry said drones, when flown above the U.S. military's Camp Schwab on the southern island of Okinawa, could get in the way of helicopters also flying in the area. The drones could also be used for terror attacks, posing a security threat.
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