-TheWire.in The city needs granular administrative and PLAnning responses to help identify the poor who are forced to live in flood prone areas out of sheer necessity. They cannot be evicted and thrown to the streets. When I was a kid, I remember my home in Bengaluru flooding repeatedly, especially during the monsoons. This was strange as we were in Chamarajpet, a well-PLAnned neighbourhood developed by the visionary Dewan Sheshadri Iyer, along with...
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TN: Stalin Launches Free Breakfast PLAn for Govt Primary Students
-PTI/ Newsclick.in The scheme, with an allocation of Rs 33.56 crore, will be implemented in 1,545 schools benefitting 1,14,095 students across the state. Madurai: The breakfast scheme for government school students from class 1 to 5 was launched here on Thursday by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin and he served and had food with children. Inaugurating the programme, Stalin said the scheme would bring beneficial change in the lives of the...
More »Women fail to get due recognition as farmers -Pillalamarri Srinivas
-Deccan Chronicle Adilabad: When the founding fathers of the Indian republic sat down to write the Constitution, the feature that they gave utmost importance was equality. It was the cornerstone on which the Constitution stands. They wanted each individual to enjoy equality in opportunity as well as treatment. But even 75 years after independence, successive governments failed to make good this constitutional pledge to several sections of people. Women are one of...
More »The future of old times in India -Jean Drèze and Esther Duflo
-The Hindu Near-universal social security pensions would be a good start to a radical expansion of public support for the elderly Life expectancy in India has more than doubled since Independence — from around 32 years in the late 1940s to 70 years or so today. Many countries have done even better, but this is still a historical achievement. Over the same period, the fertility rate has crashed from about six children...
More »India among countries responsible for global increase in carbon emissions in 2022, says study
-Scroll.in Carbon emissions in India increased by 7.5% from January to May 2022 as compared to the same period last year, the study said. India was among the countries that led the global increase in carbon dioxide emissions in the first five months of 2022, according to a multi-agency report coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization released on Tuesday. Carbon emissions in India increased by 7.5% from January to May 2022 as compared...
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