-Down to Earth A total of seven Great Indian Bustards have died in 2022 due to electrocution A Supreme Court (SC) bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud asked the Union government December 1, 2022, if a ‘Project Bustard’ could be launched on the lines of ‘Project Tiger’. The bench was hearing petitions throwing light on the critical situation of Great Indian Bustards (GIB) and their deaths due to electrocution from...
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Sowing Seeds Of Freedom: The Farming Revolution In A Tribal Village Of Rajasthan -Peerzada Muzamil
-Outlook India How going back to traditional farming practices is changing the lives of Bhil Adivasis in the hilly tribal village of Gamaniya Hameera in Rajasthan. Twenty-eight year old Kailash Nathu, a member of Bhil Adivasi community, recalls a horrific incident from 2018, when like very year, he migrated from his village Gamaniya Hameera, all the way to Gujarat to find work as a daily-waged labourer. Nathu was not the only villager...
More »"Largesse Of State...": Gujarat High Court's Strong Remarks On Morbi Bridge Tragedy
-NDTV.com Gujarat bridge collapse: "Why was tender not floated? Why weren't bids invited?" Chief Justice says to the Gujarat's top bureaucrat Ahmedabad: Slamming the Morbi civic body for "acting smart", the Gujarat High Court today sought direct answers and slammed the manner in which the contract was awarded for maintenance of a 150-year-old bridge that collapsed on October 30 killing over 130 people. "The municipality, a government body, has defaulted, which ultimately killed...
More »Morbi bridge collapse: Renovation company booked for ‘callous approach’; 9 held
-Hindustan Times The police on Monday arrested nine persons, including four officials of Oreva group, the company that renovated the bridge and opened it for public on October 26 days, four days before it collapsed on Sunday. Morbi: The police on Monday arrested nine persons, including four officials of Oreva group, the company that renovated the bridge and opened it for public on October 26 days, four days before it collapsed on...
More »How do voters assess the Gujarat government? -Vibha Attri and Vanshika Sharma
-The Hindu While the BJP-led State government is rated positively, there is not a great deal of endorsement for its famed development record The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed the government in Gujarat in 1995. Since then, it has more or less remained in power. Now, it is seeking yet another term. The Lokniti-Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) survey sought to gauge public opinion in Gujarat on the government’s performance...
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