-TheWire.in With a large number of units in the unorganised sector closing down and few providing residential facilities to workers, many have already started leaving. New Delhi: As the Delhi government announced a six-day lockdown from Monday to combat the spread of COVID-19, a large number of migrant workers began leaving for their home towns and villages – bringing back memories of a similar crisis in March 2020. Workers fear that the...
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India exported nearly 9300 metric tonnes of oxygen in FY21 as pandemic rolled on -Subhayan Chakraborty
-MoneyControl.com Official figures show that in just the first three quarters of 2020-21, 9294 MT of oxygen was exported from the country, more than double the 4502 MT exports in the previous year. The vast majority of Oxygen headed to neighboring nation Bangladesh. While the supply of medical Oxygen runs low across the country and it gears up to import medical Oxygen, official data shows that nearly 9,294 metric tonnes (MT) of...
More »India on the brink of unprecedented unemployment crisis: CMIE report -Gyan Pathak
-TheLeaflet.in Analysing a recent report on unemployment in India by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, GYAN PATHAK warns about the looming unprecedented unemployment crisis. —– THE real extent of the economic damage from last year is now in the open. The biggest loss of employment in 2020-21 was suffered by salaried employees as opposed to the popular belief that they were the safest in terms of security of employment and earning during...
More »Forest fires in India: Alerts since April 1 nearly double that of 2020 -Dakshiani Palicha
-Down to Earth The country reported 82,170 VIIRS alerts in the fortnight till April 14; Uttarakhand sees significant jump in number India recorded 82,170 forest fire alerts from April 1-14, 2021 nearly double the number reported during the same period past year, according to Global Forest Watch (GFW), an open-source monitoring application. The country reported 43,031 alerts during the corresponding fortnight in 2020, according to GFW data using Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer...
More »Good governance and naxalism -Nayakara Veeresha
-TelanganaToday.com Resolve issues of land rights, economic justice and political equality proactively to address this socio-political conflict April 3, 2021: 22 security personnel killed by Communist Party of India (Maoist) cadres in the Tarrem area of Bijapur-Sukma border of Chhattisgarh. March 21, 2020: 17 security personnel, including 12 from the District Reserve Group, killed in a Maoist ambush in the Minpa area of the Sukma district of Chhattisgarh. Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) is the official...
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