The Trump administration has erased references to transgender people from New York’s Stonewall National Monument website. On the National Park Service website, the acronym LGBTQ+ has been shortened to LGB, standing for lesbian, gay and bisexual. Other government websites have also been changed after President Donald Trump signed an order recognising two sexes only –…
A former city councillor in Brazil has returned a toilet and two sinks she had removed from her office after losing a bid for re-election. Footage of one of Janaína Lima’s employees hauling away the facilities was posted online as her tenure as Sao Paulo councilwoman ended. “I decided to donate the equipment I acquired…
Security posts known as bollards were not in place before a suspect drove a truck into a crowd in the French Quarter of New Orleans early on New Year’s Day, killing 14 and injuring at least 35. Louisiana officials have said the street barriers were malfunctioning and were undergoing renovations before the city hosts the…
Authorities in India have removed hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste from an Indian chemical factory that witnessed one of the world’s deadliest gas leaks 40 years ago. A court in December had set a four-week deadline for the waste to be disposed. On Wednesday, the toxic waste – around 337 tonnes – was taken…
Former National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) chairperson Saroj Sharma has not been removed from the post but repatriated to her parent cadre in accordance with her request, the institute said on Saturday. Sharma has been repatriated to her parent department in the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi.(Hand out) “Prof. Sharma has not been…
