-PTI/ The Telegraph Altogether 3658 persons were evacuated with the help of 276 boats across the state by NDRF, SDRF and other agencies. The flood situation in Assam remained grim on Thursday with over 54.5 lakh people still affected and 12 fresh deaths reported, officials said. The toll due to the flood since mid-May is now 101, they said. Brahmaputra and Barak rivers along with its tributaries are in spate in most of the...
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Monsoon has turned normal, IMD says. But it really hasn’t if you see regional variations -Simrin Sirur
-ThePrint.in While heavy rains have lashed parts of Assam and Meghalaya in the northeast, planting of rain-fed kharif crops has been delayed in Odisha, where the rain deficit is 39%. New Delhi: After a slow start, the four-month-long Southwest monsoon has finally turned normal, data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) shows. Compared to a 42 per cent deficit in rainfall recorded on 8 June, the monsoon entered normal territory Tuesday at 98...
More »Fresh Landslides In Assam, Heavy Rains In Guwahati
-PTI/ NDTV.com According to officials, embankments, roads, bridges and other infrastructure have been damaged by flood waters in parts of Assam. Guwahati: Fresh landslides were reported from various parts of Guwahati for the second consecutive day on Wednesday amid incessant rainfall, which also led to heavy waterlogging in most parts of the city, officials said. There was no report of any fresh casualty during the day. The state has registered 42 deaths due to...
More »Study Finds Severe Malnutrition Spiked in Half of India in 5 Years -Priyanka Ishwari
-Newsclick.in Acute malnutrition in preschool children increased in 341 out of 707 districts across 36 states and UTs between 2016 and 2021. An analysis of district-level data published in a reputed health journal shows a worrying rise in severe wasting in almost half of Indian districts even as the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-5 showed only an overall marginal increase in levels of severe acute malnutrition among children in the country. According to...
More »Forget minimum wages, MGNREGA workers not even receiving notified wages in many states
Every year in the month of either February or March, the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) announces the notified MGNREGA wage rates (i.e., notified daily wage rates for MGNREGA workers) for various states and Union Territories (UTs) for the upcoming financial year. The MGNREGA rates are notified every year based on the increase in Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labourers (CPI-AL). Like the previous years, in 2021 too, experts and civil...
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