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80% fall in mangrove destruction in 1 year, says study by Maharashtra government -Badri Chatterjee

-Hindustan Times According to a state government report, there has been an 80% drop in cases of mangrove destruction in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) from 2015 to 2016. However, activists have criticised the survey, pointing to the fact that no one has been convicted of destroying mangroves since 2013. The report, by the Mumbai Mangrove Conservation Unit, a body constituted by the Bombay High Court that works under the state mangrove...

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Demonetisation: Micro-ATMs, Point of Sale asked to guard against cyber attacks

-PTI NEW DELHI: With the usage of micro-ATMs and POS counters witnessing a sharp surge post demonetisation, the country's premier cyber security agency CERT-In has cautioned customers, bankers and traders against skimming and malware attacks on these systems and asked them to adopt high-end encryption to plug possible breaches. The CERT-In, nodal agency to combat Hacking, phishing attacks and to fortify security-related defences of the Indian Internet domain, has issued two specific...

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Out of breath: How air pollution fuels viral infections, fever -Sanchita Sharma

-Hindustan Times Each year, an adult on average catches viral infections two to three times a year. Young children get them more often, falling ill between four and six times a year, with symptoms in both young and old ranging widely from mild sniffles and a sore throat to a Hacking cough, high fever and acute diarrhoea, all of which appear to be leading to more and more hospitalisations each year. Over...

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IT firms misuse social media for polls: Cobrapost

-PTI Investigative website Cobrapost on Friday alleged that IT companies are misusing social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to artificially boost politicians popularity and malign their rivals, with many firms claiming to be working for BJP and Narendra Modi. The sting, Operation Blue Virus, claims to have exposed about two dozen little known IT firms across the country, which in the garb of providing reputation management services on social...

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Muzaffarnagar 2013 – Violence by Political Design: Centre for Policy Analysis

-Kafila.org This fact-finding exercise was coordinated by the CENTRE FOR POLICY ANALYSIS. Team members were the human rights activist and former civil servant Harsh Mander; former Director-General of the Border Security Force, E N Rammohan; Professor Kamal Mitra Chenoy of Jawaharlal Nehru University; National Integration Council member John Dayal; senior journalist Sukumar Muralidharan and CPA Director and senior editor Seema Mustafa. Introduction and Overview The first impression of the Muzaffarnagar countryside, now green...

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