-IANS/ NationalHeraldIndia.com The climate emergency will have a catastrophic human and economic impact in India The climate emergency will have a catastrophic human and economic impact in India. Different threats will interact to devastating effect, as exemplified by cyclones Tauktae and Yaas during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. A new review by the global think tank, ODI, The costs of climate change in India, released on Tuesday, laid out how rising...
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History shows India did not lack access to vaccines as claimed by PM Modi -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu India, even before Independence, was among the countries that indigenously manufactured vaccines almost years within they were discovered, historical records suggest. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on Friday presented a view of India’s vaccination history that is at odds with the facts. “If you look at the history of vaccinations in India, whether it was a vaccine for smallpox, hepatitis B or polio, you will see that India would have...
More »No Internet, Mizoram Students Climb Hill To Catch Signal For Online Test -Ratnadip Choudhury
-NDTV.com A makeshift bamboo hut with banana leaves on top provides them protection from inclement weather. Aizawl: A bunch of college students in a remote village in Mizoram are trekking up and down a hill daily. Reason: they have to take their online semester exams and the Internet reception is either non-existent or poor. The lack of Internet connectivity in the remote Mawhrei village in Saiha district, about 400 kilometres from Aizawl, has...
More »Covid-19 made poor more vulnerable to child trafficking, say NGOs -Sushmita Ghosh
-IndiaToday.com Activists say that despite the Covid-19 restrictions in places, cases of child trafficking continue to rise unabated. On June 4, Pooja (name changed) was rescued from her employer’s house in Patna. At 10, Pooja had been working as a domestic help for about a year. She was taken by child traffickers in June 2020, when the country was exiting from a nationwide coronavirus lockdown. After a year of child labour, she was...
More »Every second COVID case and death reported in May 2021 was from rural India -Nidhi Jamwal
-GaonConnection.com Last month, 53% of new cases and 52% of deaths due to the coronavirus were from rural districts of India, finds the ‘State of India’s Environment 2021’ report. What makes the situation more worrisome is the acute shortage of healthcare staff in rural India — a 76.1% shortfall of specialists at the CHC level. Rural India, where two-thirds of Indians live, did not escape the fury of the second wave of...
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