-The Hindu IMD issues red, orange alerts for November 10, 11; Extremely heavy rains possible in Chennai and neighbourhood For the second day, many parts of Chennai were inundated as intermittent showers continued through Monday. However, the water level had receded at several locations that had reported severe inundation on Sunday. However, the city and its neighbouring districts are likely to face more days of intense rains. With a fresh weather system brewing...
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‘Jai Bhim’ director Tha Se Gnanavel: ‘More brutal than lock-up torture is the silence of society’ -Nandini Ramnath
-Scroll.in The Suriya-led legal drama is based on an actual incident of police brutality in Tamil Nadu. Tha Se Gnanavel’s phone has been ringing non-stop ever since his movie Jai Bhim started streaming on Amazon Prime Video on November 2. “I thought people would say this is a good film, but the response has been far more than expected,” Gnanavel told Scroll.in. “The film has now has led to a discussion. In...
More »No, demonetisation wasn’t a good idea, badly executed – it was a ridiculous idea from the start -Rohit Azad
-Scroll.in The policy, which wreaked havoc on the lives of the poor, mistakenly conflated cash with black money. Was demonetisation a good idea, badly implemented? I have heard this from the supporters of the regime but, to my surprise, even friends who are otherwise critical believe this to be true. The government’s stated aim for denotifying high-value currency notes with a four-hour deadline on November 8, 2016, was to land a body blow...
More »Ayodhya: The poor collect mustard oil from diyas for cooking at homes -Piyush Srivastava
-The Telegraph The state government had organised a Diwali-eve celebration on November 3 and lit 9 lakh lamps, with Adityanath inaugurating the programme Lucknow: On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had praised the way the Uttar Pradesh government had marked Diwali in Ayodhya by lighting hundreds of thousands of diyas, saying “Ayodhya is getting back its glory”. On Saturday, a widely circulating video showed children collecting mustard oil from some of these diyas...
More »Explained: Where does India stand on methane emissions? -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu * Why has it stayed away from both the methane pledge and the forest conservation declaration at Glasgow? The story so far: At the ongoing UN Climate Change Conference (the 26th Conference of Parties-COP26) in Glasgow, the United States and the European Union have jointly pledged to cut emissions of the greenhouse gas methane by 2030. They plan to cut down emissions by 30% compared with the 2020 levels. At...
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