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Hurricane Helene caused dozens of deaths and billions of dollars of destruction across a wide swath of the southeastern U.S. as it raced through, and more than 3 million customers went into the weekend without any power and for some a continued threat of floods. Helene blew ashore in Florida's Big Bend region as a Category 4 hurricane late Thursday packing winds of 140 mph (225 kph) and then quickly moved through Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee, uprooting trees, splintering homes and sending creeks and rivers over their banks and straining dams. Western North Carolina was essentially cut off because or landslides and flooding that forced the closure of Interstate 40 and other roads. There were hundreds of water rescues, none more dramatic than in rural Unicoi County in East Tennessee, where dozens of patients and staff were plucked by helicopter from the roof of a hospital that was surrounded by water from a flooded river.

Haryana's Bandhwari village on the Gurugram-Faridabad border, home to one of the largest landfill sites in the country, elections mean politicians visiting the garbage hill for «photo-ops» and making «mountains of promises». The locals, meanwhile, continue to struggle with contaminated water; diseases, including difficulty breathing; loss of business, and much more. Since its inception in 2010, the Bandhwari dumpsite has become a major waste repository in the region, receiving more than 2,000 tonnes per day (TPD) of mixed waste — 1,400 TPD from Gurugram and 600 TPD from Faridabad. Unfortunately, only a small fraction of the waste generated by the two cities is processed.

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Thousands of people in the vicinity of a dam in Tennessee were evacuated Friday amid fears of a “catastrophic failure” from the adverse impacts of Hurricane Helene, but officials later clarified the structure hadn’t failed.

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The U.S. is struggling to replant forests destroyed by increasingly destructive wildfires, with some areas unlikely to recover

Tropical Storm John came ashore on Mexico’s Pacific Coast on Thursday, coming back to life for a second landfall after its previous deadly passage through the country earlier in the week

Electric vehicle owners who live in the path of hurricanes should be wary of the risk their cars could catch fire if they are inundated by saltwater as the powerful storm moves ashore

Hurricane Helene weakened to a tropical storm over Georgia with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph (110 kph) early Friday, the National Hurricane Center said.

Controversy broke out last week over a proposal from Brookfield Asset Management Ltd., the investment company, to create a $50-billion fund that would include pension and federal government money to invest in Canadian equities. Much of the uproar was focused on a conflict of interest for Brookfield senior executive, Mark Carney, who was recently appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to provide advice on economic policy.

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Tropical storm force winds began battering Florida on Thursday as Hurricane Helene prepared to make landfall, with forecasters warning that the enormous storm could create a “nightmare” surge along the coast and churn up damaging winds hundreds of miles inland across much of the southeastern U.S.

Danone SA will be «irrelevant as a global player» if it is not committed to and does not have a strong presence in India, which is fast emerging as one of the world's largest markets and growth drivers for several consumer goods multinationals, said chief executive Antoine de Saint-Affrique. «In terms of priority, India is at the very top,» he told ET in an exclusive interview. «If we are not big in India, in 10, 15 or 20 years, we will be irrelevant as a global player. It's as simple as that.» Danone's chief executive said the company's optimism was based on India's stable political environment and thrust on infrastructure.

A group of Baltimore longshoremen have filed a class action lawsuit against the owner and manager of the ship that caused the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse

Adani Power's ₹27,000-crore offer for the KSK Mahanadi project, the Uttar Pradesh power utility has sought the consolidation of insolvency proceedings of the debt-laden thermal power company and its two subsidiaries to «protect the interests of multiple stakeholders», an industry source told ET. The Uttar Pradesh Power Corp (UPPCL) filed a writ petition in the Telangana High Court on clubbing the resolution processes of the 1,800-MW KSK Mahanadi and its two subsidiaries — KSK Water Infrastructure and Raigarh Champa Rail Infrastructure. «The high court has deferred the CIRP process on September 20,» said the source cited above.

Hurricane Helene was advancing Thursday across the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida, threatening an «unsurvivable» storm surge in northwestern parts of the state as well as damaging winds, rains and flash floods hundreds of miles inland across much of the southeastern U.S., the National Weather Service in Tallahassee said. Helene is expected to be a major hurricane — meaning a Category 3 or higher — when it makes landfall on Florida's northwestern coast Thursday evening. As of early Thursday, hurricane warnings and flash flood warnings extended far beyond the coast up into south-central Georgia. The governors of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas have all declared emergencies in their states. The weather service forecast storm surges of up to 20 feet (6 meters) and warned they could be particularly «catastrophic and life-threatening» in Florida's Apalachee Bay. It added that high winds and heavy rains also posed risks.

Representatives for NASA, Boeing Co. and the U.S. Coast Guard are slated to testify in front of investigators Thursday about the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic

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