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[00:00:09] Hello, this is your daily dose of news from Onmanorama. I'm your host, Wati Ajad and these are the major news stories of Thursday, Jan 2, 2025.
[00:00:21] US authorities say they believe multiple people were involved in the New USDA attack that killed 15 and wounded dozens in New Orleans.
[00:00:28] President Joe Biden said the Islamic State group inspired the attacker and that an IS flag was found from the truck he drove into the crowd.
[00:00:36] Law enforcement is also checking weather. The incident is linked to the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas hours later.
[00:00:46] 40 years after the Phopal gas tragedy, 377 tons of hazardous waste from the now defunct Union Carbide factory have been transported for disposal.
[00:00:55] The toxic material was moved on Wednesday night in 12 sealed container trucks from Madhya Pradesh's capital, Phopal, to the Pitampur Industrial Area in the Thar District, approximately 250 km away.
[00:01:07] Nearly 100 persons worked in 30-minute shifts since Sunday to pack and load the waste in trucks.
[00:01:13] The highly toxic methyl isothonate gas leaked from the Union Carbide factory on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984, killing at least 5,479 persons and leaving thousands with serious and long-lasting health issues.
[00:01:28] Indian Pacer Jaspreet Bumrah might captain India in the final cricket test match of the Boda Gavaskar Trophy.
[00:01:34] India will play Australia in the final match at the Sydney Cricket Ground starting Friday.
[00:01:39] The reports emerged of a change in leadership after head coach Gowdhan Gampir stood in for the customary pre-match press conference.
[00:01:46] Normally, captains speak to the media head of the match.
[00:01:50] Gampir did not specifically say if Bumrah will captain India, fueling speculations that the underperforming captain might be dropped for the finale.
[00:01:57] Australia led India 2-1 in the five-match series.
[00:02:01] Double Olympic medalist Manu Phaakar and chess world champion Degu Kesh were among four winners of the major Dhyanshant Kail Ragnar award announced by the Sports Ministry,
[00:02:11] which also named an unprecedented 17 para-athletes in the list of 13 Arjuna awardees to honour their astounding success at the Paris Paralympics.
[00:02:18] The ministry unveiled the other two Kail Ragnar winners for the year 2024 on Thursday,
[00:02:23] men's hockey captain Harman Preet Singh and para-athlete Praveen Kumar.
[00:02:27] The awards would be conferred on the athletes by President Draupadi Murmo and Rajpadi Bhavan on January 17.
[00:02:35] Iran has offered to mediate in the case of Namishya Priya, an Indian nurse, on death row in Yemen.
[00:02:41] According to news agency ANI, a senior Iranian official stated,
[00:02:44] On humanitarian grounds, we are willing to do whatever we can.
[00:02:47] Namishya Priya faces a death sentence at the central prison in Sana'a for the alleged murder of Yemeni citizen Talal Abdu Mahadi.
[00:02:54] She was found guilty of murdering Mahadi, dismembering his body and disposing of the remains in a water tank on July 25, 2017.
[00:03:02] Yemeni President Rashad Al-Alimi recently upheld her death sentence.
[00:03:06] In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs confirmed that the Indian government was providing all possible assistance to Namishya Priya's family.
[00:03:14] That brings us to the end of this episode.
[00:03:16] Thanks for listening to Daily News Dose, hosted by me Swati Ajat and produced by Vishnu Murali Tharan.
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