-TheWire.in More than a month after this incident, Assam’s chief minister called the flooding in Silchar a “man-made” disaster. Several media outlets then added an anti-Muslim spin. While reporting on the Assam floods in June, the Indian Express stated that Silchar &NDAsh; southern Assam’s biggest town and the gateway to the three districts on the bank of the Barak river &NDAsh; had submerged in water unlike “ever before in its history.” By...
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How communal rumours hid the truth about the deluge in Assam’s Silchar -Rokibuz Zaman
-Scroll.in Days after the town was submerged, social media accounts started posting about ‘flood jihad’. Last month’s deluge in Silchar, in Assam’s Cachar district, was followed by a dangerous rumour. This was no natural flood, the rumour claimed &NDAsh; it was deliberately caused. Several social media accounts suggested it was “flood jihad”, in a not-so-veiled reference to the Muslim community. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma himself repeatedly suggested the flood was no...
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-The Hindu Business Line Stagnation in the area under cultivation and marginal growth in yields have capped domestic output growth, says a report Mangaluru: Even while the import-dependent edible oils market in India has been affected by geopolitical factors, the domestic production of oilseeds remains below the global average. The compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of oilseeds production in India has remained at 1.94 per cent between 2011-12 and 2020-21, as against global...
More »Retail inflation eases in June to 7.01%, but still above RBI’s upper limit -Zia Haq
-Hindustan Times Food price index leapt 7.75% in June on the back of a global spiral in commodity prices, slightly lower than 7.97% in May India’s retail inflation marginally eased for the second month in a row to 7.01% in June from a year ago, official data on Tuesday showed, but consumer prices, which rose 7.04% in May, continued to breach the Reserve Bank of India’s upper limit of 6% for the...
More »Greening of barren lands – the traditional way -Basant Yadav, Nitesh Patidar, Anupma Sharma, Niranjan Panigrahi, Rakesh K Sharma, V. Loganathan, Gopal Krishan, Jaswant Singh, Suraj Kumar and Alison Parker
-IndiaWaterPortal.org The Chauka system, the traditional water harvesting system of Rajasthan can not only provide a sustainable way to manage water resources in water stressed regions, but also support livelihoods through development of pastures. Over 55 percent of India’s population relies on groundwater for irrigation, water for cattle, domestic consumption, and industrial use making India the world’s greatest groundwater extractor, surpassing the USA and China combined. This paper titled 'Assessment of traditional rainwater...
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