-Scroll.in About 50% of the households in the city owned a bicycle in 2011, as per the census data. It is a common sight to see cyclists, pedestrians and vehicles jostling for space on the narrow streets of small Indian cities. While there is a popular notion that these cities are trying to replicate the mobility pattern of bigger cities, data tells a different story. While global cities are aiming to increase cycle...

-The Hindu Natural resources have been destroyed in Kutch due to clean energy projects AHMEDABAD: Sangnara, a small village in Kutch, has been trying to save its forests from wind energy companies for the past two years as windmills were being installed on forestland, depriving people of greenery and natural resources. Kutch has been designated as an important wind energy exploitation zone, and in the past few years thousands of windmills have been...

-The Hindu 40% belong to SC/ST communities; 88% of IIT Guwahati dropouts, 76% of IIT Delhi from reserved categories. Almost 63% of the undergraduate dropouts at the top seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) over the last five years are from the reserved categories, according to Education Ministry data given in response to a question in the Rajya Sabha today. Almost 40% were from the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities. In...

-The Hindu Regional pARTies express anguish; No violence reported from any pART of Valley. On August 5, the day the Central government ended Jammu and Kashmir’s special status in 2019, people observed a shutdown, most markets remained closed and the regional pARTies expressed their anguish. However, the BJP held celebrations in Jammu and Srinagar. While the authorities decided not to block the Internet facility, extra deployments were made across the Valley. The shutdown resulted...

-PTI/ The Hindu 5,950 people shifted to safer places; rescue operations under way, says CM The flood situation is “grim” in north Madhya Pradesh where over 1,200 villages were affected following heavy rainfall and 5,950 people were shifted to safer places with the help of the Army, the NDRF, the BSF and State agencies, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Wednesday. He said 1,950 persons were still stranded in flood-hit areas and...