-The Times of India BONN (Germany): India is the sixth most vulnerable country in the world in terms of facing extreme weather events with Haiti, Zimbabwe, Fiji, Sri Lanka and Vietnam taking top five positions in the fresh list of nations facing climate risk. The ranking was released here by the Germanwatch, an independent Berlin-based development and environmental organisation, on Thursday in its latest global climate risk index (CRI). The Index put...
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'Workers get more pay, fewer days off in Delhi than Mumbai' -Sidhartha
-The Times of India Working in Delhi is more remunerative than Mumbai but you may have to do with fewer days off than in the country's financial capital. But if you are an employer, you may prefer to be in Mumbai, not because of lower wages, but due to value added by workers being higher than the wage. The World Bank's Ease of Doing Business report released on Tuesday shows that a...
More »A 'women-centric' approach for gains in nutrition -Malancha Chakrabarty
-The Asian Age On the one hand, there are states like Kerala and Goa which have a low burden of undernutrition. India has won significant battles against malnutrition. Unlike a few decades ago, instances of severe malnutrition such as kwashiorkor and marasmus are now rare. Latest figures from the National Family Health Survey revealed that there has been a ten percentage point decline in stunting from about 48 per cent in 2005-06...
More »Why the cow has gone from mata to menace -Alok Sharma
-The Times of India Farmers can't keep them, traders don't want to buy them, and gaushalas are full. The result: Havoc on farms and roads. Sunday Times travels across the country to find out how the population of stray bovines is becoming a ticking time bomb. The problem of stray cattle is not new in India, but in the last few months, it has reached alarming proportions. According to 2012 data from...
More »Indian monsoon could spill over into Oct, say global forecasts -Vinson Kurian
-The Hindu Business line THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A US Climate Prediction Centre forecast suggests that the moderate to heavy monsoon conditions would prevail over most parts of the country until the month-end. The latest spell, now almost a week old, is being mainly attributed to the influence of erstwhile typhoon Doksuri that rammed into the Vietnamese coast the other day. TYPHOON REMNANT Westward tracking storms or typhoons in the North-West Pacific/South China Sea have always had...
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