-The Hindu Over the past week, floods in Hyderabad have killed 33 people and destroyed property. Swathi Vadlamudi and Syed Mohammed report on how a burgeoNINg population and rapid infrastructural development have put tremendous pressure on the water bodies of the city, reducing their area, quantity and quality Mohammed Abdul Quddus Qureshi’s body was found at the Nagole sewage treatment plant along the Musi river, 13 km from his home in Alinagar,...
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Socialism has been a handy weapon in successfully fighting COVID-19 pandemic -Shah Alam Khan
-The Indian Express Countries more successful in curbing COVID-19 are welfare states, ruled by left-of-centre parties. There is a lesson here. A plea has been filed before the Supreme Court, seeking to remove the words “socialist” and “secular” from the Preamble of the Constitution. But despite a persistent erosion over the last couple of decades, both principles were central to the type of republic our political forefathers had imagined. With the embrace...
More »9 killed as heavy rains batter Hyderabad; water enters homes, vehicles washed away -Rahul V Pisharody
-The Indian Express Record heavy rains lashed the city as well as the rest of the state under the influence of a deep depression in Bay of Bengal that weakened into a depression as it entered Telangana after covering Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad: NINe persons, including a two-month-old, died and two others sustained injuries late Tuesday night when a boulder crashed over two houses in Hyderabad’s Bandlaguda area, said police. Record heavy rains...
More »NCRB 2019 data shows 165% jump in sedition cases, 33% jump in UAPA cases under Modi govt -Leah Verghese
-ThePrint.in In recent years, sedition and UAPA have been weaponised against critics of the govt. National Crime Records Bureau’s recently-released data confirms this. A journalist from Kerala was accused of sedition and various offences under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, (UAPA) and arrested on the way to Hathras on October 7. In recent years, sedition and UAPA have been weaponised and used routinely against critics of various ruling governments. Data from...
More »Ideal body weight of Indian men now 65 kg, women 55 kg
-The Hindu Decade-old standard of 60 kg and 50 kg revised; adult age put at 19-39 years Hyderabad: ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) has redefined the ideal or reference Indian adult man and woman with regard to age to 19-39 years instead of 20-39 years. The body weight has been put at 65 kg for males and 55 kg for females while earlier, it was 60 kg and 50 kg respectively, which...
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