-Down to Earth Wildfires have been reported from the buffer zone of Silent Valley National Park apart from Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, Attappadi Reserve Forest and Walayar Reserve Forest Kerala has witnessed raging wildfires in the last four days as an unusually early summer has raised temperatures by two to three degrees Celsius above average. The state’s flora and fauna have suffered as a result of the climate change-induced extreme weather events. Wildfires have...
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Provide Universal Access to Food Security, Says Rights Group to Modi
-TheWire.in "With the additional grains under PMGKAY also set to stop after March 2022, the hunger crisis is likely to exacerbate in the country," the Right to Food Campaign said. New Delhi: The Right to Food Campaign has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the “crisis” in income decline and severe food insecurity, especially among the economically weaker and marginalised sections of society due to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the Pradhan...
More »Haryana: Midday meal workers in wage cry, Centre blames state -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph According to a proposal approved by the cabinet, the central government’s share of the honorarium will remain unchanged till 2025 For 50-year-old Saroj, supporting her four-member family with a paltry honorarium of Rs 3,500 a month she gets for cooking food at a government primary school in Haryana is a daily struggle. “I have two daughters and a son. All of them are studying in government schools. Neither can I provide...
More »Congress and CPI(M) spar in Lok Sabha over Kerala’s Silverline project
-The Hindu Congress urges Centre to review high-speed rail project, CPI(M) wants it pushed through The K-Rail Silverline project in Kerala became the subject of sparring between Congress and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) members from the State in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, prompting Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to comment that the two parties were in dosti (friendship) in Delhi and kusti (wrestling) in Kerala. “Politics of Kerala is unique. Delhi main...
More »Raising capital the biggest challenge for women-led MSMEs in India: Indifi
-Business Standard The survey discovered that securing capital remains the biggest challenge The number of women-led MSMEs in India has jumped from 2.15 lakh to 1.23 crore in just a decade. However, they face a finance gap of $158 billion and largely rely on informal sources, said a survey by Indifi Technologies, a lending platform for MSMEs, titled ‘Understanding what women-led MSMEs want’. The survey was launched to understand needs and challenges of...
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