-PTI NEW DELHI: India's economic development has led to the worsening of air quality in major Indian cities, according to the results of a survey by The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri) in Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai. The transport sector was ranked the highest followed by factories in and around the city as the second highest contributor towards air pollution in Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai. While respondents from Bangalore...
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80% think Delhi’s environment got worse in last 5 years: Survey
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: An environment survey carried out across six metropolitan cities by The Energy and Resources Institute has found that while 80% of the respondents in Delhi believe that the overall environment in the city has deteriorated in the past five years, the capital also sets the record for being the most ill-informed across the metros about government policies on environment. Teri interviewed 1,114 respondents in Delhi NCR...
More »Poor response to solar Energy projects in Krishna district -Rajulapudi Srinivas
-The Hindu Vijayawada: Even as people are facing severe hardships with power cuts and many industries are closing down due to the problem, there was no proper response on the use of solar Energy in Krishna district. According to official sources, there are about 13 lakh power connections in the district, of which 11 lakhs are domestic services. The demand was about 11.5 million units, but the supply was only 9.6...
More »Rolling stone who anchored the women’s movement -Urvashi Butalia
-The Hindu With her passing, Indian feminism has lost one of its earliest icons Three years ago, almost to the day, when we launched Vina Mazumdar's memoir, Memories of a Rolling Stone, the room at the Habitat Centre in Delhi was packed to overflowing. Resplendent in her beautiful silk, Vinadi, as she was known to everyone around her, smiled her way through the evening as bureaucrats, academics, politicians, educationists, feminists and others...
More »RENOWNED ECONOMISTS ‘ELIMINATE’ MALNUTRITION
Argumentative Indians are at it again! After sparring over the poverty line and the actual number of poor, India's renowned economists have fired up a fresh debate over the extent of malnutrition. In the earlier debate, the Planning Commission ‘reduced' poverty on paper disregarding NSSO and official committees, including the NCEUS, which determined that 77% Indians survived on less than Rs 20 a day. Columbia university economist Arvind Panagariya has...
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