-The New Indian Express Oxfam India further said that an additional one per cent tax on the richest 10 per cent can provide the country with nearly 17.7 lakh extra oxygen cylinders. NEW DELHI/ DAVOS: Indian billionaires saw their combined fortunes more than double during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their count shot up by 39 per cent to 142, while the wealth of the ten richest is enough to fund school and...
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Virtually Deprived: ‘Online Learning in India is a Sham’ -Medha Ghosh
-TheCitizen.in ‘They take our attendance and dismiss us’ KOLKATA: Joining many other states, the West Bengal government recently announced the imposition of another partial lockdown till January 15. Schools and colleges in the state, which reopened in November for the first time since the pandemic was allowed to run rampage, have been fully closed once again. “It’s unfortunate that the educational institutions have taken 20 months to open. This effort of reopening institutions...
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हाल की मीडिया रिपोर्ट्स यह बताती हैं कि आगामी उत्तर प्रदेश विधानसभा चुनाव से पहले उत्तर प्रदेश के बुंदेलखंड क्षेत्र को लगभग रु. 6,300 करोड़ की परियोजनाओं की घोषणाएं की गई हैं, जिनमें झांसी में टैंक रोधी मिसाइलों के प्रणोदन प्रणाली के लिए 400 करोड़ रुपये का संयंत्र भी शामिल है. 18 नवंबर, 2021 को झांसी नोड (उत्तर प्रदेश रक्षा औद्योगिक गलियारे से संबंधित) में पहली परियोजना के लिए नींव...
More »Forest Survey Report 2021: India’s mountainous states, already facing climate change, lose forest cover -Vivek Mishra
-Down to Earth Jammu and Kashmir has lost very dense forests, while the North East is top in terms of total forest area loss There has been an increase in forest loss in India’s mountainous states along its Himalayan frontier, which are already in the throes of climate change, according to the latest report by the Forest Survey of India (FSI). India’s State of Forest Report is a biennial publication. The report for...
More »In Bihar, women face floods and increasing violence -Shreya Raman
-TheThirdPole.net As climate change increases the incidence of flooding, women in the northeast Indian state of Bihar are becoming more vulnerable to violence and trafficking After devastating floods struck the northeastern Indian state of Bihar in August 2017, the country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, conducted an aerial survey of the affected areas. At the time, nearly 3,000 square kilometres of the state were under water – an area twice the size of...
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