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ReutersVictims of Bhopal gas tragedy say pandemic has worsened their plightProtesters in the central Indian city of Bhopal formed a human chain on Thursday to demand justice for people suffering cancer, blindness, respiratory, immune and neurological problems from the world's worst industrial disaster 36 years ago. Thousands of survivors have said they, their children and grandchildren are struggling with chronic health problems as a result of the leak and toxic waste left behind and face hefty medical bills at a time when the pandemic is making their health even more fragile. Dow Chemical, which now owns Union Carbide, has denied liability, saying it bought the company a decade after Union Carbide settled its liabilities to the Indian government in 1989 by paying $470 million.Business WireSCHOTT Joins the NKBA Global Connect Program to Accelerate North American GrowthSCHOTT, the inventor of specialty glass, has joined the National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) Global Connect Subscription program to accelerate growth in North America. SCHOTT will tap into the NKBA’s 50,000 strong membership to gain a stronger foothold in the kitchen and bath industry, leverage the program’s expertise, and expand the company’s opportunity to equip manufacturers with glass materials for current and future designs.In…

Published 13 hours ago Sasha Obama is out here on social media, looking gorgeous and living her best life with her friends, and usually that's a cue for haters and racists to try to steal her joy. Sasha and her older sister Malia Obama are routinely scrutinized by right wing pundits and Twitter trolls for doing everyday, normal young adult things like wearing a bikini at the beach or cuddling with a boyfriend. But this time, Black Twitter is ready and on the defense. After Sasha appeared in a TikTok video dancing and acting goofy with a group of friends (while also looking extremely fly in a set of long acrylic nails), hundreds of people on social media jumped out with a warning for anyone fixing their fingers to malign the 19-year-old daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama. "Let me see one post slandering Sasha Obama because she’s living her life...," one Twitter user wrote, while another added, "Our Sasha Obama looks happy, has a group of normal looking friends, and is simply beautiful. We’re good over here." See some hilarious tweets leaping to Sasha's defense, below: Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images

By: Trends Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 2, 2020 7:22:06 pm From global brands to netizens, the monolith has triggered a fun photoshop battle online. The mystery behind the blink-and-miss shiny metallic monoliths, which were spotted first in the US and then in Romania, has triggered frenzied chatter while spawning a rail of conspiracy theories on social media. Carrying on from the social media intrigue, the unexplained landmarks have also sparked a hilarious meme-fest online that has got not only brands but even cops involved. An appearance of a metallic structure in Utah desert in late November left the world flummoxed, even drawing comparisons with Stan Kubrick’s sci-fi classic ‘2001: A Space Age Odyssey’. However, more than its unexplained appearance, it was its disappearance that got everyone talking and even led to wild theories linking it to aliens. Even before the world could make any sense of the mysterious monolith in the sands of Utah, a similar looking metallic column was spotted in Romania’s mountainous Neamt county, leading to speculation that the two could be related. What began as jokes surrounding alien involvement, slowly progressed to memes with people photoshopping various items in place of the metal monolith…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — It’s no secret that during a stressful time for the entire country, people are spending more time on social media. Many are turning to one Pennsylvania power couple’s social media accounts to get some laughs. Lt. Governor John Fetterman and his wife Gisele Fetterman are a hit on Twitter. They say they’re serious when they need to be, but they use the app to connect with constituents and to simply make people smile. “I’ll wake up in the morning and I’ll just see the latest drags that I’ve gotten,” said Lt. Governor John Fetterman. Lt. Governor John Fetterman’s biggest fan is actually his biggest troll: Gisele Fetterman. “GQ referred to him as an American style god,” Gisele Fetterman jokes. “No, taste…an American taste god,” said Lt. Governor John Fetterman. “It’s so offensive,” Gisele Fetterman said with a laugh. “But so true though,” said Lt. Governor John Fetterman. The two write all of their own tweets. “We take the work seriously, but we don’t take each other seriously and we don’t take ourselves seriously and I think that’s an important balance to have,” said Gisele Fetterman. Many Twitter users love it. The couple gets thousands of engagements.…

(Reuters) - Value stocks are poised to catch up with better-performing peers if Washington passes new stimulus spending or similar actions to restore economic growth, the chief executive of Calvert Management and Research, John Streur, said.FILE PHOTO: John Streur, CEO of Calvert Research & Management (currently owned by Eaton Vance Corp) is seen in this undated handout photo. EATON VANCE CORP/Handout via REUTERS. Financial and industrial stocks, as well as some utility companies, “seem likely to play a bit of catch-up and make up for the ground they lost” compared with growth stocks like technology companies, said Streur, who was interviewed on Monday for the Reuters Global Investment Outlook Summit 2020.For example, he said, utilities or transportation companies would benefit from extra spending by business customers if they had new money from the government, seen as more likely with the incoming administration of President-Elect Joe Biden.“The biggest impact of the election is the hope that we’ll have significantly more stimulus,” even if Congress remains divided, Streur said.Value stocks have lagged many growth portfolios this year as the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the U.S. economy and sent some technology companies soaring - “pandemic darlings” Streur called them.Others also have…

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS5) -- On the day the Arizona general election results were certified by Gov. Doug Ducey and Sec. of State Katie Hobbs, a war of words broke out on Twitter.  Arizona Governor Doug Ducey and Secretary of State Katie Hobbs certified results at the official canvass for federal, state, legislative offices, and statewide ballot measures on Monday morning. It started with President Trump taking aim at Ducey, and the fact that Mark Kelly can now be sworn into the U.S. Senate. He tweeted:Why is he rushing to put a Democrat in office, especially when so many horrible things concerning voter fraud are being revealed at the hearing going on right now. What is going on with @dougducey? Republicans will long remember!"What the president tweeted is not true. Arizona election officials have said there is no evidence of any election fraud.Ducey then fired back, writing a long thread defending the integrity of our state's election system.He tweeted:I’ve been pretty outspoken about Arizona’s election system, and bragged about it quite a bit, including in the Oval Office. And for good reason. We’ve been doing early voting since 1992. Arizona didn’t explore or experiment this year. We didn’t cancel election day voting as…

Nov. 29 (UPI) -- As tensions between the two countries further strain, Australia on Monday demanded China apologize for posting a "repugnant" and "offensive" doctored image on Twitter of an Australian soldier threatening the life of an Afghan child. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a strongly worded televised address that they have asked China's foreign affairs ministry to apologize for the post published a few hours earlier to the account of its deputy director and spokesman, Zhao Lijian. "The Chinese government should be totally ashamed of this post," Morrison said in the address. "It diminishes them in the world's eyes." The doctored image of the smiling solider holding a bloody knife to the throat of a small Afghan child with a lamb his arms was published two weeks after the Australian government announced findings of a report that said Australian soldiers unlawfully killed 39 Afghans between 2005 and 2016 during war in the Middle Eastern country. "Shocked by murder of Afghan civilians & prisoners by Australian soldiers," Zhao said in the tweet that accompanied the image. "We strongly condemn such acts & call for holding them accountable." Morrison called the post "truly repugnant" and that they have asked…

Australia demands removal of fake photo of soldier posted by official government spokesman, as ties further deteriorate.Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has condemned a fake image of an Australian soldier posted on the Twitter account of a Chinese government spokesman as “truly repugnant” and demanded the post be removed. The image, depicting a grinning Australian soldier holding a blood-stained knife to the throat of an Afghan child, was posted on Monday on the verified account of China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian. Morrison said the Australian government was demanding an apology from China and had asked Twitter to remove the tweet, which was pinned at the top of Zhao’s feed. “It is utterly outrageous and cannot be justified on any basis,” Morrison said. “The Chinese government should be utterly ashamed of this post. It diminishes them in the world’s eyes.” Relations between Australia and China have deteriorated sharply in recent months. China has introduced a string of economic sanctions on Australian goods and state-controlled news outlets have repeatedly attacked Australia over a range of issues. The bad will appears to have been prompted by Canberra’s decision to push back on Beijing’s growing power in the region and call for an…

Aviary, the popular Twitter app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and even Apple Watch is available with a huge 60% off right now. That means you can pick the app up for just $1.99 – the normal price is $4.99. After initially launching on iPhone and iPad, Aviary recently saw its Mac app launch alongside macOS Big Sur, with all existing users getting it as a free addition to their existing purchase. Anyone who hasn't used a third-party Twitter app should definitely give Aviary some consideration – if there's a feature you'd want a Twitter app to have, there's a very good chance it's part of Aviary. And there are a lot you might not even think of, too! Source: Aviary App Aviary is a beautiful Twitter client built with macOS design guidelines in mind. It's simple enough to pick up and use immediately, and powerful enough to tweak it just the way you want. The delightful interface is coupled with extensive features that feel the part on your device, whilst elevating your Twitter experience. You can download Aviary from the App Store right now. This is the last day to bag it for just $1.99 so don't leave it until…

Do you miss the racists rants of David Duke? The white nationalist blather of the Proud Boys?Are you dying to hear the alt-right wit and wisdom of Steve Bannon?Have I got a social media website for you!Parler is fast becoming the online equivalent of a Trump rally, minus the COVID-19. It has become a home to the digitally homeless — those who have been kicked off Twitter for violating its rules against hate speech.The site, whose user base exploded after President Trump lost to Joe Biden, says it now has more than 10 million accounts. That’s peanuts compared with social media giants Twitter and Facebook, of course, but significant, particularly since right-wing heavyweights are promoting it as a censorship-free alternative to the others.“People from all walks of life, fed up with opaque, biased content curation, inconsistent agenda-driven fact checking, and manipulative algorithms built on data mining, are joining Parler to speak free,” wrote its founder John Matze in a letter to users this month.How nice for Trump and his wackiest supporters to now have their own cesspool to muck about in. They can’t trust Fox News anymore, with its annoying tendency to call elections fairly. Without fear of having warning…