-ANI/ Hindustan Times Dubey said that New Delhi is running the world's largest food-based safety net programme, which has seen a paradigm shift from welfare to a rights-based approach. India will play its due role in advancing global food security, upholding equity, displaying compassion and promoting social justice, said FIRst Secretary Sneha Dubey at the UN Security Council high-level special event on global food security crisis on Monday (local time). Dubey said that...

-Down to Earth Telangana Chief Minister said cloudbursts may be a 'foreign conspiracy' during his visit to flood-hid Bhadrachalam India, especially its Himalayan states Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, are devastated by cloudbursts several times moslty during the monsoon season. Flash floods caused by a cloudburst in Uttarakhand in 2013, killing thousands of people, is one of the worst natural disasters the country recorded since the 2004 tsunami.  Climate change has been making these...

-Hindustan Times The accused were booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for allegedly assisting Maoists in the 2017 Burkapal attack, which killed 25 CRPF personnel. A court in Chhattisgarh on Friday acquitted 121 tribals booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for allegedly assisting Maoists in 2017 Burkapal attack, citing lack of evidence against them. A designated National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Dantewada pronounced the acquittal order on Friday...

-The Hindu Experts question the data gap and the missing decade in Census that remained uninterrupted even during second world war Nearly all COVID-19-related restrictions have been lifted across the world and India, but the Centre has no plans to restart the decennial Census operations which were halted due to the pandemic. While a letter sent by the Registrar General of India (RGI) to States in June cited COVID-19 for the continuing...

-The Telegraph The development, multiple sources said, is vital to initiate the next phase of work to operationalise the coal mine amid protests by a large number of local people Calcutta: The Bengal government on Thursday started exploratory drilling at a stretch of land at a village under the proposed Deocha-Pachami coal mine project in a bid to estimate the layers and quality of coal-reserve with the consent of local people in...