-TheCitizen.in Society rejects them even when their fathers leave the job In a village in Odisha, 35 year old Tapan Kumar Gochchayat comes from a family of manual scavengers where his grandfather worked as a ‘safai karamchari’ all his life. Very early in life, Kumar decided not to go into the same profession. He worked hard to get an education and create a life of dignity for himself. But even today his...
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New-age check dams built under MGNREGA cost less, give more -Rishikesh Bahadur Desai
-The Hindu The project is unique because the design consumes less concrete and the dams last longer than traditional stone masonry ones BELAGAVI: The State government is promoting construction of new generation check dams across natural streams, rivulets and other waterbodies under the MGNREGA programme. Over 5,000 multiple arch buttress check dams (MACD) have come up under MGNREGA, 1,820 in the last two years. The project is unique because the design consumes less...
More »14 States set to reopen schools for classes X-XII
-The Hindu Almost 50% of teachers vaccinated. At least 14 States and Union Territories have reopened or plan to reopen schools partially this month, given the continued low numbers of COVID-19 infection and the high rate of vaccination among teachers. However, almost all States only plan to bring back older students despite the Indian Council of Medical Research’s recommendation to start with primary school students. At a Health Ministry press conference on Tuesday,...
More »Parties get 48 hours to publish candidates’ criminal records -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu Supreme Court modifies February 2020 judgment; imposes fines on major political parties, including the BJP and the Congress. The Supreme Court on Tuesday warned Parliament that the nation is losing patience with the advent of criminals in politics even as it imposed fines on major political parties, including the BJP and Congress, for covering up from voters the criminal past of the candidates they had fielded in the Bihar Assembly...
More »IPCC report: ‘Code red’ for human driven global heating, warns UN chief
-United Nations News Climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, and some trends are now irreversible, at least during the present time frame, according to the latest much-anticipated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released on Monday. Human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe. Scientists are also observing changes across the whole of Earth’s climate system; in the atmosphere, in the...
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