-The Hindu Slowdown in consumer durables hits August manufacturing ; retail inflation rises to 3.77% in Sept. New Delhi: Industrial production slowed to a 10-month low of 4.3% in August, due in large part to a drastic deceleration in the manufacturing, mining, and consumer durables sectors, according to official data released on Friday. The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) slowed in August from its growth rate of 6.61% in July. Within the index,...
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Blown off by the Titli winds: Hundreds of birds die in Odisha -Sib Kumar Das
-The Hindu Over 5,000 open-billed storks and other birds killed by the gusts BERHAMPUR: Among the casualties of cyclone Titli are hundreds of open-billed storks which were killed and many injured near the Jagannathpur railway station on the city’s outskirts here. The dead birds were seen scattered all around the railway station and adjoining fields. The injured appear to have taken shelter under the railway wagons and nearby shady places. Some of these...
More »Drought: Govt. asks farmers to go for short duration crops -GVR Subba Rao
-The Hindu Contingency plan focusing on alternative crops drawn up VIJAYAWADA (Andhra Pradesh): After declaring 296 mandals as drought affected, the State government has suggested the farmers to cultivate short duration varieties like jowar, horsegram, cowpea, korra, red , green and black gram. Seed distribution The Agriculture department has prepared a contingency plan to handle the situation focusing on alternative crops, supply of sufficient quantities of seed and employment generation work. As part of...
More »UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning
-The Hindu “Global warming is likely to reach 1.5°C between 2030 and 2052 if it continues to increase at the current rate” New Delhi: “Limiting global warming to 1.5ºCelcius would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in a new assessment made public on Monday. The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC was approved by the IPCC on Saturday in...
More »These superwomen from Himachal Pradesh show why empowered women make for an empowered country -Raksha Kumar
-The Hindu Bhuira's women are coping with the higher workload by creating vastly more flexible family and community structures. And they are simultaneously pushing towards modernity much faster than their neighbours. Everyone in the village sneaks a glance when Upasana Kumari drives her White Maruti 800 to work. “Driving a car is intoxicating,” says Kumari. A winding, muddy, single lane road that starts from the edge of the hillock where Kumari’s house...
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