-Hindustan Times The National Remote Sensing Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation has released satellite images of Joshimath, the Uttarakhand town gradually sinking because of land subsidence. It has revealed that a rapid subsidence of 5.4 centimeters has been recorded in 12 Days between December 27, 2022 and January 8, 2023. The 12-Day period of subsidence has been rapid, because between April 2022 and November 2022, Joshimath saw a slow...
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The Centre has not paid MGNREGA wages in Bengal for a year - Nachiket Deuskar
- Scroll.in The right to work has been suspended in the state as a result of a political battle over upcoming elections. People working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in West Bengal have not been paid their wages for more than a year now with the Union government stopping the payment of funds. Bengal is the only state impacted by this stoppage, Scroll.in reports. MGNREGA is a national...
More »Hemant Soren urged to provide eggs in midDay meals five Days a week -Achintya Ganguly
-The Telegraph According to national family health survey, 67.5 per cent of children in state below the age of 5 years are anaemic while 39.4 per cent are underweight Ranchi: About 200 concerned citizens wrote an open letter to Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on SaturDay, urging him to provide eggs in midDay meals for schoolchildren five Days a week. “We are dismayed to note that the Jharkhand government’s long-standing promise to include...
More »Global Economy: In 2023, Central Banks Will Have to Battle Inflation Amid Political Obstacles -Steve Schifferes
-TheConversation.com/TheWire.in With the cost-of-living crisis now at the top of the public’s agenda in many developed countries, the setting of interest rates has ceased to be just a technical matter and has instead become highly political. Where is the global economy heading in 2023? After all the challenges of last year, it’s a question we ask with trepidation. Just as the economy was dealing with the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
More »A data person to a data journalist -Vignesh Radhakrishnan
-The Hindu Data stories broke long-held assumptions and hard facts led to cold truths as data knew no bias When Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman rises to present the 2024 Budget on February 1, 2023, I will have spent six years as a data journalist at The Hindu. In my early Days, when I was learning the tricks of the trade, data was used very differently in print newsrooms across India from how...
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