Glasgow Life formerly hands back seven items to India.

Glasgow Life, the body which, amongst other things, overseas museums in the Scottish city, has agreed to return seven items taken from India during the colonial period. Six of the objects are believed to have been stolen from shrines and temples in Kanpur, Kolkata, Gwalior, Bihar and Hyderabad, while the seventh, a 14th century ceremonial tulwar (sword), was stolen from the Nizam of Hyderbad by his prime minister in 1905, and sold to General Sir Archibald Hunter, the then Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Command of the Indian Army.

A fourteenth century ceremonial tulwar returned to the Government of India in a ceremony in Glasgow this week. Glasgow Life.

The objects, currently held by the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, are the latest in a series of items returned to other countries from Glasgow, which started in 1998 with the return of of a Ghost Shirt to the Lakota Nation. The latest items are being returned following following a meeting of Glasgow City Council in April this year (2022), in which a recommendation by the Working Group for Repatriation and Spoliation was accepted. The objects were formerly given to the acting Indian High Commissioner, Sujit Gosh, at a ceremony at the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery on 19 August 2022. Other objects due to be repatriated following the April meeting include 19 'Benin Bronzes' (items looted from the city of Benin in modern Edo State, Nigeria, during a British military action in 1895), and 25 items belonging to the Cheyenne River Sioux and Oglala Sioux tribes of South Dakota, believed to have been taken from the dead following the Wounded Knee Massacre.

A ceremony at the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery in Glasgow on 19 August 2022, in which items in the museum's collection believed to have been stolen from sites in India were formally returned to the Indian High Commissioner. BBC.

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Glasgow pub evacauted after chemical spill at nearby nail bar.

A pub in the Finnieston area of Glasgow was briefly evacuated after a chemical spill at a nearby nail bar on Friday 3 March 2017. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was called to Lebowskis Bar and Restaurant in Argyle Street slightly after 11.30 am, after a strong chemical smell was noticed. This was later identified as being acetone spilled in a nearby nail bar, and the business was able to reopen once the spill had been contained.

Fire crews attend Lebowskis in Argyle Street, Glasgow, following a chemical spill on 3 March 2017. STV.

Acetone (or propanone, (CH₃)₂CO) is a widely used organic solvent, that is found in, amongst other things, nail polish remover. It is naturally present in the Human body, and not considered harmful at low levels, though at higher levels it can be more problematic; it is a component of Bee stings, can cause irritation by dissolving subcutaneous fat, and small children and pregnant women are recommended to avoid it. It is however considered a fire hazard, being a flammable liquid that produces abundant fumes (also flammable), and it produces a strong smell that can be alarming to people unfamiliar with it.

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