-The Telegraph Over 1,703 hectares of land of 84 revenue villages in Shikaripara and Kathitund blocks of Dumka district were allotted to the Eastern Coalfields LIMited Jamshedpur: Over 200 tribals in Dumka district of Jharkhand have taken a pledge not to give up an inch of their “ancestral” land for coal mining. Over 1,703 hectares of land of 84 revenue villages in Shikaripara and Kathitund blocks of Dumka district were allotted to the...
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"Full Of Faff": Derek O'Brien's 8-Question Rebuttal To 8-Minister Presser -Sunil Prabhu
-NDTV.com Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien said the ministers had dodged the real issues in their press conference. New Delhi: A special press conference by eight Union Ministers was little more than "faff", Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien said on Thursday, countering accusations that the opposition had forced the monsoon session of parliament to end two days prematurely. Brushing away their allegations as bluster, Mr O'Brien pitched eight questions to the ministers ranging...
More »"Within 48 Hours Of...": A Supreme Court Move To Decriminalise Politics -Deepshikha Ghosh
-NDTV.com Petitions have asked for contempt against political parties for not obeying the February 2020 orders of the Supreme Court. New Delhi: Political parties must make criminal records of their poll candidates public within 48 hours of their selection, the Supreme Court said today, in a big step towards decriminalising politics. In an earlier ruling in February last year linked to the Bihar election in November, the Supreme Court had said candidates must...
More »IPCC report forecasts a future of severe weather -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu Global warming to trigger extreme rain in South India, it says The current global warming trends overall are likely to lead an increase in annual mean precipitation over India, with more severe rains expected over southern India in the coming decades, says the Intergovernmental Panel on CLIMate Change (IPCC)’s Sixth Assessment Report, public on Monday. The planet was irrevocably headed towards warming by 1.5° Celsius over pre-industrial times in the next...
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-Press release by Intergovernmental Panel on CLIMate Change (IPCC) dated 9th August, 2021 Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s cLIMate in every region and across the whole cLIMate system, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on CLIMate Change (IPCC) Report, released today. Many of the changes observed in the cLIMate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years, and some of the changes already set in motion—such as...
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