-The Hindu For public pressure to drive climate action, we need to consider climate catastrophes as largely man-made In the absence of COVID-19, climate change-induced disasters would have been India’s biggest red alert in recent years. The heatwave that scorched Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, and New Delhi this year; torrential downpours in south India in 2021; and the super cyclone Amphan that battered West Bengal and Odisha in 2020 are symbols of...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 14680
Have compensated 98% of endosulfan pesticide exposure victims, Kerala tells Supreme Court
-The Hindu State government says ₹5 lakh compensation for each of the over 3,700 victims had been disbursed The Kerala government on July 18 informed the Supreme Court that it has compensated 98% of the endosulfan pesticide exposure victims. Appearing before a Bench led by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, advocate Nishe Rajen Shanker, for Kerala, said the ₹5 lakh compensation for each of the over 3,700 victims had been disbursed. Verification was going on...
More »DTE Explains: The science of cloudbursts -Preetha Banerjee
-Down to Earth Telangana Chief Minister said cloudbursts may be a 'foreign conspiracy' during his visit to flood-hid Bhadrachalam India, especially its Himalayan states Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, are devastated by cloudbursts several times moslty during the monsoon season. Flash floods caused by a cloudburst in Uttarakhand in 2013, killing thousands of people, is one of the worst natural disasters the country recorded since the 2004 tsunami.&NBSp; Climate change has been making these...
More »What does dwindling central wheat stock mean for prices and production? -Krishna Veera Vanamali
-Business Standard The wheat stocks in the Central pool have dropped close to the minimum required levels because of lower procurements. What does this mean for the grain's prices and production? As global wheat prices scaled record highs this year, in part due to the Russia-Ukraine war, bread-makers in India turned to multiple price increases. Today, a loaf of sliced brown bread costs Rs 50 while multi-grain bread costs Rs 65. This is...
More »Why it will be hard to shrink trade deficit -Vivek Kaul
-Livemint.com * Price of oil and other commodities have fallen recently as fears of a recession have risen * But oil price is still high versus last year and needs to fall further to contain the import bill India’s trade deficit in June came in at the highest level ever of $26.2 billion. The previous high was in May, when the deficit had stood at $24.2 billion. The trade deficit is the difference...
More »
