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MORE THAN 430 people have died in two Indian states from a days-long heatwave that has seen temperatures nudging 50 degrees Celsius.
Officials warned the toll was almost certain to rise, with figures still being collected in some parts of the hard-hit Telangana state in the south of the country, and with no end in sight to the searing conditions.
Large parts of India, including national capital New Delhi, have endured days of sweltering heat, prompting fears of power cuts. But the highest temperatures have been recorded in Telangana and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh state.
Warning over working long hours
Andhra Pradesh authorities are urging labourers and others not to work long hours in the heat of the day after 246 people died from the high temperatures there in the last week.
“The majority of the victims are people who have been exposed to the sun directly, usually aged 50 and above and from the working classes,” P. Tulsi Rani, special commissioner of Andhra Pradesh’s disaster management department, told AFP.
Rani said although the deaths started occurring on Monday last week, the number of cases snowballed towards the end of the week after days of scorching heat.
We are asking them to take precautions like using an umbrella, using a cap, taking a huge quantity of liquids like water and buttermilk, and wearing cotton clothing.
Another 188 people have died in Telangana, mostly since the middle of last week, although numbers were still being confirmed and were highly likely to rise, D Vani, an official with the state’s disaster management department, told AFP.
Hundreds of people, mostly from poorer sections of society, die at the height of summer every year across the country, while tens of thousands suffer power cuts from an overburdened electricity grid.
“The kind of heatwave we are seeing now is slightly higher than normal. The temperatures here have almost touched 48-49 degrees Celsius (118-120 degrees Fahrenheit),” said B R Meena, principal secretary of revenue for Telangana.
Several deaths have also been reported in the northwestern desert state of Rajasthan in recent days including a woman who collapsed and died on the roadside in Bundi city, the Press Trust of India said.
In the eastern city of Kolkata, taxi unions have urged drivers to stay off the roads between 11am and 4pm because of the heat.
India’s weather bureau warned that “heatwave to severe heatwave conditions would prevail” in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in coming days as well as in the northern states and New Delhi.
Who are the residents? The ones in the recently demolished flats? The ones who live in the middle of a city nearby complaining about music from a venue that closes on time. Ridiculous that any innovations in Nightlife get shutdown but prior who want rural peace and quiet in the middle of a modern 24/7 city.
@Renton Burke: I used to live across the street from there. Wouldn’t want that noise . Should stick some outdoor venue like that outside your own house if you want
@Ronan McDermott: Don’t live next to a thriving music bar if the noise bothers you. The same applies to the residents complaining near Croke Park. They knew what to expect and yet still moved into the area!
@Ronan McDermott: were you born and raised there? If you choose to move there you only have yourself to blame.
@Ronan McDermott: I live in the suburbs near the motorway and have put in an objection for the m50 to be closed from 11:00 each night as the noise is relentless and unbearable. Oh wait… I live in a city that I have to share with others.. including people who like music.
@Renton Burke: Ok Closing he M50 is not realistic, but night time speed limits are in force throughout Germany on higways close to cities. Reduced speed means less noise and less needs for intensive lights at junctions.
@Joey Casey: TBF the GBS is only there a wet day.
@Ronan McDermott: It’s a city. It’s a pub. Entirely your own fault for moving there in the first place.
@Ronan McDermott: You lived in a city? And it was noisey? Jaysus Ronan, ask for your money back mate.
@Karen Wellington: blame for what ? I not blaming anything on anyone. Their case was refused. I had no prob living near a bar. But outdoor stuff has been refused. And no I wasn’t born into the area. None of your business where or why I moved in around there. Don’t live there any more. Don’t live in Ireland any more either.
@Renton Burke: good for you. Enjoy your music. Plus enjoy your m50 application. Don’t live in Ireland anymore. You saps can do what you want. None of my business
@Renton Burke: Hardly 24/7 bud. You must get out more…in Europe somewhere.
These beer gardens sprung up with the smoking ban. I live about fifty yards from one and the noise is kept to acceptable limits but they do not play music outside and that is really key. Playing music outside is always going to upset the neighbors and get the beer garden closed. This is poor management from the pub in question. Having said that if you are right next door to the beer garden you would probably get rightly fed up with or without outdoor music adding to the volume.
Right decision tbf.
It’s the city center. Should be allowed to have music at night like every city in the world
@pearse: No music allowed in Barcelona.
@Dave Grant: Rubbish. I’ve spent many late nights wandering the streets of Barcelona with a crowd. Drinking street bought cans of lager and singing loudly with locals playing guitars and bongos. Often until 4 or 5 in the morning.
There’s another big difference between Barcelona and here is that they have late licensing laws. If you want to drink til 6 or 7 in a club, you can. Arguably the main reason Dublin is noisy and full of drunks is because the pubs and clubs turf everyone out at exactly the same time.
Passed by there recently on a Friday night, anti social behaviour is putting it very mild!
@tooler doogan: Care to elaborate?
@tooler doogan: I pass by there every single day and have never seen any anti-social behaviour. It’s a pretty standard pub, so I don’t see what sort of anti-social behaviour you could ascertain from walking by…
@Patrick FitzGerald: well Irish people don’t exactly have a good relationship with alcohol, that whole street right down to Georges street is staggering with drunks past a certain hour, I wouldn’t let a women walk down it on her on
@Alan Watts: You wouldn’t let a woman walk down it? What makes you think you’ve any right to tell anyone where to walk or what to do? Least of all women.
And so what? It’s a busy commercial area. Pubs and nightlife are a large part of that. If you’ve chosen to live there then you’ve literally chosen to live with that kind of lifestyle at your doorstep.
So much for it being a free country! Let him cover his head if he wants to – and keep to a curfew. It’s not for him to be telling Irish women where they’re not allowed to go in their own city.
@Cocker: get off your moral high horse, the music should be played inside not outside the venue, if u really think its safe for a women to walk around city center after the pubs close alone you’re delusional
@Fiona Fitzgerald: You’re missing the point. It is dangerous on that stretch at nighttime.
@Alan Watts: what of the woman didn’t share your concerns and wanted to walk down the road?
Aww. Love the little pizza on a bus! Such a shame. That’s why we can’t have nice things :(
@Daniel Dudek Corrigan: apparently because you’re too noisy :)
I live near the airport near pubs The Odeon The Plex and a duel catrrigeway leading to the m50 Ambulances police cars and firebrigades use the road as well as cars lorries etc We have to bear with it all 24/7 so how loud is the noise at The Bernard Shaw pub
Planning for housing and offices only. Corporate greed is alive and well in the planning office. An end to culture and diversity.
Funny that Mannix Flynn thinks its a bunch of cool hipsters when his election posters are the most hipster of all of them out there.
If you want peace and quiet during trading hours, don’t live in the city centre of a capital city FFS. None of these eejits would survive two minutes in somewhere like London or New York.
@Patrick FitzGerald: nor would any bar survive pumping out music in any city in any part of the world unless no one lived nearby. Nothing stopping them operating eithin their own agreed planning terms if not get lost!!!
@Austin Rock: Pumping? are you honestly trying to describe the chatter and light music from the back of the Bernard Shaw as pumping? God help you if you ever so hear real pumping music. You’ll probably shyte yourself
@Patrick FitzGerald: Uhm, lots of quiet areas in NY and London, bud.
London has loads of laws around bars throughout its city centre.
@Cocker: it’s regularly over 110 decibels some time 125 , also there are houses , apartments and flats that have been the 50 years , bodytonic are just there 10 years , and it’s not as if there loosing anything because they bought the Wright venue
The anti-social behaviour around Richmond St is probably more to do with the canal drinkers. Maybe if the no drinking in public law was enforced along that stretch of the canal then the residents wouldnt be so uptight.
@BreadBasketCase: Something that the Bernard Shaw is trying to help fix with their free beer if you clean up the canal campaign.
Their days are numbered. They don’t want it there anymore
@Uinsionn: “they”
“brewing unease…” say the guys who want to continue selling beer. Well, they have a sense of humour.
We’ll remember Mannix Flynn’s talk in the polls today I imagine.
Leo wants to turn Dublin into some college campus. The stupid stupid man doesn’t realize that the very thing that made Ireland famous for decades was the character of the city. Sure it’s all gone now only to be told as stories to the people who come in search of something that’s being wiped out by a government. Jesus I thought the last government was the worst in history. But the old saying is be careful what you wish for
@Honey Badger: Ya, it’s all Leo’s fault.
@Honey Badger: would a college campus not have a great pub with a beer garden. Dont get your point. Leo is not to blame dude!
@Honey Badger: Character? Don’t make me laugh. That died ages ago.
absolute nonsense. It was grand when there were flats right beside it, not so grand now that an ‘emerging pattern’ of development is underway. Dublin is being fast tracked towards a very mundane place. That’s not to say that I don’t agree that there should be tighter controls around the sound bleeding out into the night etc.
Refusing the permission outright sounds a bit odd, especially when they were flats there before, and the complaints come form the house owners/tenants (I guess). A lot of developments going on around, and I would be more inclined to think that someone is lobbying very hard in the area and with the authorities to get their hands of that piece of land, as similar actions were observed in other parts of the city. I hope BS will compromise will get their permission accepted.
Mannix Flynn the same guy who wants Artane to be renamed, Bob Geldof listened to him and lost his freedom of the city. Ignore him and he might go away.
Iconic beer garden.Hahaha that’s what they call a yard at the side of a pub now.
Grand pub but they are fairly over hyping their worth.
@John Kelly: Yep- iconic. Everything is ”iconic” these days. It was a dump and full of dopes. Pizza on a bus- what a stupid idea.
When I looked for a flat to rent I purposely rejected any close to pubs. The beer garden also serves lunch and is a pleasant venue during daylight hours. Can’t a happy medium be found? Continue the venue with food and drink during daylight hours and shut off any speakers to the garden at ten or eleven PM.
A terrific result. Hopefully these hipster muppets will move on.
Right so let’s all illegally drink on the canal now? I think the residents will like people littering and drink pissing in there garden instead? People can’t see they’re actions consequences.
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