-NDTV.com Delhi Air Pollution: To bring down pollution, the central government suggested three steps to the Supreme Court which include the introduction of an odd-even vehicle scheme, a ban on trucks' entry in Delhi, and the severest - lockdown. New Delhi: The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that stubble burning is not the major cause of worsening air quality in Delhi and northern states, as it contributes to only 10...
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CoP26 a missed opportunity: Graduate from kindergarten diplomacy -Sunita Narain
-Down to Earth The much-delayed climate summit in Glasgow did little to acknowledge that combatting climate change requires cooperation at a scale never seen before The 26th Conference of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — CoP26) is done and dusted, and the world has signed on to the Glasgow Climate Pact. The question now is whether this pact will go far enough to keep the world at a...
More »Nearly 51 million internally displaced in 33 countries in first half of 2021: UN -Madhumita Paul
-Down to Earth The lethal mix of conflict, COVID-19, poverty, food insecurity and climate emergency has compounded humanitarian plight of the displaced, flags report &NBSp; As many as 50.9 people were internally displaced across 33 countries due to conflict and violence in the first six months of 2021, according to a report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The number is nearly five per cent more than the 48.6 million...
More »Burnt body of Bihar missing journalist writing on ‘fake’ clinics found on highway: Report -Sohini Goswami
-Hindustan Times Two days before he disappeared, the Right to Information (RTI) activist had written a post on Facebook in which he mentioned such clinics. A 23-year-old journalist working on a scam involving medical clinics in Bihar’s Madhubani district was found dead days after he went missing. His burnt body was reportedly found tossed by the roadside near a village in the district. An NDTV article said Buddhinath Jha or Avinash Jha was...
More »Govt. Squeezes Spending, Even Though Tax Collections Have Increased -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in Modi government has restrained spending of various ministries including education, social justice, environment and others. Continuing with its policy of cutting down spending, the central government has spent only 47% of the budgeted amount by the end of September 2021. That’s half of the financial year 2021-22 gone. This is a new low (see graph below), and bizarrely, it comes at a time when tax revenues have picked up. As can be...
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