The Central Water Commission (CWC) has released the state-wise and national-level annual data on human and economic costs associated with floods or excessive rainfall for the last 64 years at a time when the North East is devastated by nature's fury. That data indicates that on an average 3.2 crore Indians were affected by floods or excessive rainfall every year between 1953 and 2016. Floods or downpours took a heavy toll...
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India's forex reserves are falling $2 billion per week as RBI fights to save sliding rupee -Mahua Venkatesh
-ThePrint.in The dip in forex reserves has been due to the intervention of the central bank to arrest the slide in the rupee. New Delhi: India’s foreign exchange reserves have fallen by about $2 billion per week for seven weeks now but top government officials said they were monitoring the trend and there is no cause for alarm. Economic affairs secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said funds would be raised through foreign currency non-repatriable...
More »Deliver PDS grains at doorstep to check starvation death, Centre tells states
-PTI New Delhi: The Centre today asked state governments to provide home delivery of highly subsidised foodgrains to the PDS beneficiaries to avoid instances of starvation death. These were among other reforms the state governments have been asked to pursue urgently in order to strengthen the public distribution system (PDS) — also called ration shops. The matter was discussed in detail with state food ministers meeting here in the national capital. “We...
More »Gang producing fake Aadhaar cards busted
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A gang producing fake Aadhaar cards has been busted. Two men, who have been arrested, were former employees of a firm authorised to prepare Aadhaar cards at an SBI branch in Green Park. After losing their job early this year, Vikash Kumar and Sushil Kumar managed to slip out with the required equipment and started the fake operation in north Delhi’s Shastri Nagar. They were caught...
More »Changing rainfall patterns cause for worry in India -Nidhi Jamwal
-India Climate Dialogue The meteorological department’s analysis of annual rainfall for the past 50 years has found significant increasing or decreasing trends in districts that could put a spanner into India’s food security scenario. Since June 13, there has been a hiatus in the advance of southwest monsoon in the country due to the weakening of its circulation pattern. This dry spell is expected to soon change as the monsoon is likely...
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