-The Business Standard We have built city roads only for cars to move. Cars rule the road I write this column from my bed, recovering from an accident that broke my bones. I was hit by a speeding car while cycling. The driver fled the scene of the accident in the car, leaving me bleeding on the road. This is what happens again and again, in every city of our country, on...
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Mumbai has India's most number of internet users: IAMAI data -Anahita Mukherji
-The Times of India MUMBAI: While India awoke to the sheer extent of mobile phone penetration a decade ago, web penetration's now making news, fuelled largely by easy internet access on smartphones. At 12 million, Mumbai has more internet users than any other city in the country, according to data released by the Internet And Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). This has much to do with the population of a city...
More »Siddaramaiah: we are committed to making State hunger-free
-The Hindu ‘We'll consider extending Shaadi Bhagya to women from all communities' MYSORE (Karnataka): Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, on Wednesday, said that the government was committed to ushering in a hunger-free State and shore up growth. Speaking at a public function at T. Narsipura after participating in the launch of various projects, including inauguration of a new bridge and laying the foundation stone for two new bridges, Mr. Siddaraiamaiah, said that the government had...
More »Unchecked climate change to lower food production -Urmi A Goswami
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Unchecked climate change, scientists warn, will slow down economic growth, impact poverty reduction, lower food production and drive up food prices. A leaked copy of the draft report of the Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), reviewed by ET, sounds the most urgent warning till date on the adverse impacts of unchecked climate change. While poor African countries stand out as the likely...
More »Child sex ratio worsening faster among STs: census report-Jitendra
-Down to Earth Data also shows higher marginationalisation of the country's Scheduled Tribes The latest data released by the Census of India shows that the child sex ratio (number of girls per 1,000 boys) among Scheduled Tribes (STs) in the country has declined faster than in other categories of the population between 2001 and 2011. But the number of girls born per 1,000 boys is still higher in the ST category than...
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