-indiaToday.in Joshimath, a hilly town in Uttarakhand, has raised national concerns as the hill begins to claim its lands. The city is sinking. In Short * The biggest reason why Joshimath is sinking is related to the geography * CM has said that the situation in Joshimath is being closely monitored *The city serves as a tourist rest stop and a staging ground for armed forces Located in the foothills of the Himalayas, Joshimath -- a...
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A data person to a data journalist -Vignesh Radhakrishnan
-The Hindu Data stories broke long-held assumptions and hard facts led to cold truths as data knew no bias When Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman rises to present the 2024 Budget on February 1, 2023, I will have spent six years as a data journalist at The Hindu. In my early days, when I was learning the tricks of the trade, data was used very differently in print newsrooms across india from how...
More »india seeks discount in rare one-year urea import tender, say sources -Nidhi Verma
-ThePrint.in New Delhi: india has issued a global urea tender asking producers to quote a discount for the supply of 600,000 tonnes of urea, industry sources said and a document shows, as the nation seeks to cut import costs and secure cheaper supplies of the soil nutrient. india, where soil nutrients are sold at below market rates, annually imports urea through tenders by authorised companies such as india Potash Ltd, Rashtriya Chemicals...
More »Can india’s production incentive scheme transform the economy as the SEZ push did for China? -Siddhant Bajpai
-Scroll.in The indian government will have to take serious note of the structural problems and bottlenecks to work on improving the production-linked incentive scheme. On December 20, the indian government approved a Rs 357.17-crore incentive for Foxconn india, under the Production-Linked Incentive scheme for the Large-Scale Electronics Manufacturing sector. According to government think tank Niti Aayog, Foxconn india is the “first global company” approved under the scheme for mobile phones and to receive...
More »Why indian scientists are critiquing IPCC report -- unfair burden on developing countries -Sinrin Sirur
-ThePrint.in Scientists at M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation claim IPCC projections give rich nations higher energy consumption, cutting down share of developing ones, potentially affecting development. New Delhi: A group of scientists from the Chennai-based M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation have challenged the assumptions of the sixth assessment report by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), arguing that the modeled scenarios on how to achieve global net-zero emissions place an unfair burden...
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