-PTI ITANAGAR: With the recovery of one more body, the death toll in flash flood and landslides in Arunachal Pradesh rose to five while a girl was still missing, an official said on Sunday. The body of 32-year-old Mary Beyong of Modirijo who went missing since Friday, was retrieved by Banderdewa Police and NDRF team from Dikrongn river at Nepali Gaon near No 2 Pithaguri village in Assams Lakhimpur district on Saturday...
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After the deluge, Kerala's next crisis: Dying eARThworms -KR Rajeev
-The Times of India KOZHIKODE: Farmer Sanmathy Raj was walking to his field last week when he stopped short. Dead eARThworms covered the ground. “I couldn’t walk without stepping on them,” he said. It’s normal for eARThworms to creep out of the soil after rains, but Kolavayal, Raj’s village in Kerala’s Wayanad district, has been dry since flood waters receded. Baffling as the scene was, mass eARThworm deaths have also been reported...
More »Oil marketing companies again hike petrol, diesel prices
-The Hindu The prices of petrol and diesel touched a new high on Sunday with Mumbai paying the maximum among the four metros. Mumbai: State owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) have again increased the price of sensitive petroleum products like petrol and diesel in the country on Sunday. The prices of petrol and diesel touched a new high on Sunday with Mumbai paying the maximum among the four metros. While petrol costs ? 89.29...
More »The social value of religious and political dissent -Rajeev Bhargava
-The Hindu Dissenters of the past in India were great moral agitators, introducing social, intellectual and spiritual turbulence in public life. Would they have survived today? Dissent is not only the “safety valve of democracy”, as Justice D.Y. Chandrachud reminded us, but vital for meaningful social life. Societies stultify when everyone converges on a single opinion or when official stories go unchallenged. Flaws congeal and social rot sets in. Right or wrong,...
More »Four of 10 women who commit suicide in world are from India, most are under 40: Study -Anuradha Mascarenhas
-The Indian Express According to the study, in 2016, India accounted for 17.8 per cent (130 crore) of the global population but recorded 36.6 per cent (94,380) of the 2,57,624 suicides among women across the world and 24.3 per cent of global suicides among men. Pune: Almost four in every ten women who commit suicide across the world are from India; 71.2 per cent of suicide deaths among women in India were...
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