-The Hindu Kerala needs to adopt watershed-based master planning and review building byelaws The unique geography of Kerala, with its steep climbdown from 900m high elevations of the Western Ghats to the coast of Malabar, has resulted in a land with a vast riverine network. There are no less than 44 fast flowing rivers that drain the rainwater Kerala is blessed with into the Arabian Sea. It is a lifeline that supports...
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15 ways to define India's slowdown -Vivek Kaul
-Livemint.com * An analysis of indicators that make up India's GDP reveals the extent to which the economy has slowed down * How does one explain the fact that home loans are growing and so is the number of unsold homes? It may be that people are buying homes from investors, not builders The rain has stopped. You step out of home to run a few errands. On the way, you find ?500...
More »Under Rs 3.5L cr scheme, all rural homes to get piped water by 2024
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: PRIme Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced the launch of Jal Jeevan Mission, which will PRImarily focus on providing piped water supply to all rural households by 2024. He said over Rs 3.5 lakh crore will be spent under the mission. Modi highlighted how for seven decades a large section of the rural populace had to wait for getting safe drinking water and needed to cover...
More »'Population explosion a worry', govt schemes needed to control it: PM
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: PRIme Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday placed the issue of “population explosion” on the national front-burner, calling it a challenge and exhorting the Centre and states to devise schemes to tackle it. In his Independence Day speech from the Red Fort, Modi said the rising population was a cause for worry and posed new challenges for the present and the future. He said citizens with small...
More »The very idea of the NRC is wrong -Prabhat Patnaik
-The Telegraph Its only usefulness could be to determine how Assam might be recompensed for coping with the magnitude of immigration Boris Johnson is no vaishnavite saint; nor is he a leftist internationalist. According to Donald Trump people see him as the “British Trump” and, judging by the cabinet he has picked as PRIme minister, with a hard-Right home secretary, and the company he kept during the Brexit referendum which included Nigel...
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