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Can Modi Govt Handle Approaching Wheat Crisis? -Subodh Varma

-Newsclick.in Production has dipped for the first time in the Modi era and procurement has plummeted, bringing wheat stocks down and affecting foodgrain-based schemes. The Narendra Modi-led Central government is going to be confronted with a crisis that it has never faced yet – shortage of wheat, one of India’s key staples. The worry about this looming cloud is aggravated by the fact that the Modi government has not been particularly successful...

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Surface temperature tops 60°C in parts of north India, satellite images show -Jayashree Nandi

-Hindustan Times The European Space Agency’s website also showed land surface temperatures to be nearing 55 degrees Celsius over many parts of northwest India and crossing 60 degrees Celsius over several pockets. New Delhi: Surface land temperatures exceeded 60 degrees Celsius over some parts of northwest India, according to imagery captured by satellites on Saturday. Images of land surface captured by INSAT 3D, Copernicus Sentinel 3 and a NASA satellite indicated that...

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Not Just A Hotter April - Why Heatwave 2022 Is Different -Chetan Bhattacharji

-NDTV blog A huge part of India - northwest and central - has just experienced its hottest April on record. This is not just another heatwave. This is what Scientists have been warning for decades, that global warming will lead to more frequent and more intense extreme weather events. And frequent spells of heatwaves. This time though something seems to have changed. A climate emergency has led to immediate repercussions outside the...

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Employment generation through MGNREGS comes down in Telangana -V Swathi

-The Hindu Exponential rise in expenditure on material component, notes study group Hyderabad: Budget cuts for the Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee scheme coupled with the administrative changes have resulted in reduced employment through the highly successful rural employment scheme in Telangana in the year 2021-22. Improvement in COVID-19 pandemic situation too has been a major factor. Analysis of three years’ data related to the scheme’s expenditure in Telangana’s 32 districts has revealed...

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'Now or never’: Scientists warn window to avoid 1.5 degree C rise in temp closing, call for drastic action -Sibu Tripathi

-IndiaToday.in A report found that the world can afford to emit just 500 billion tonnes of CO2 from 2020 onwards. However, 50–80% of emissions from fossil fuels could still be avoided with currently available technologies, the report said. As the world suffers the catastrophic impact of climate change, Scientists said that the window to avoid 1.5 degrees Celsius is fast closing unless drastic actions are taken. The Working Group-III of the Intergovernmental Panel...

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