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Bird flu suspected in Meghalaya
Shillong, Feb 10 (IANS) Fears of bird flu gripped Shillong Friday and Meghalaya state authorities sounded a general alert after a hundred pigeons were found dead in the state capital, an official said. The pigeons have died over a month at Keating Road in the heart of Shillong City, and Thursday three more pigeons died of unnatural deaths, said Animal and Husbandry Veterinary director D. Lyngwa.

Kanika Datta: In the court of public opinion

Is it possible for a company to be legally in the right but ethically off the mark? That’s an issue The Dow Chemical Company has been facing ever since it bought Union Carbide Corporation

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Paralympians protest Dow in Olympics
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IBNS) Prominent Paralympian and Para-athletes joined Bhopal victims and campaigners at a press conference in Delhi Wednesday to demand that the London Organizing Committee LOCOG cancel Dow Chemicals' sponsorship of the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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London Olympics: Ethics commissioner resigns
A top official of the body monitoring the London 2012 Olympics resigned from her post on Thursday over the Dow sponsorship row.

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LOCOG goes with Dow, protest grows
London/Bhopal, Jan 27 (IBNS) Despite the voice of UK politicians growing louder against the Bhopal gas leak tainted Dow Chemical's sponsorship of the Olympics, London 2012 chief executive, Paul Deighton, maintained that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will not reconsider its 100 million pound deal with the chemical giant.

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UK protest over Dow in Olympics grows
London, Jan 27 (IBNS) The voice of UK politicians grew louder against the Bhopal gas leak tainted Dow Chemical's sponsorship of the London Olympics soon after the resignation of the Games' ethics committee commissioner on Wednesday.

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