-The Times of India LUCKNOW: A pan-India survey is under way since January 2019, the first of its kind in India, to measure an individual’s use of his/ her time, evident in the very term Time User Survey. Conducted by the National Sample Survey Office, it is being carried out in four legs from January to December. Talking about the survey, chief statistician Pravin Srivastava on Saturday, while inaugurating a seminar on...
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Bengal port records country's highest sea level rise in 50 years -Shiv Sahay Singh
-The Hindu Four ports in India recorded a higher sea-level rise than the global average Kolkata: Of the major ports in India, Diamond Harbour in West Bengal located at the mouth of river Hooghly has recorded the maximum sea level increase, according to data tabled in the Lok Sabha by the Ministry of Earth Sciences. While recent studies reveal that sea level rise in the country has been estimated to be 1.3 mm/year...
More »88 manual scavenging deaths in 3 years -Damini Nath
-The Hindu T.N., Gujarat lead list; toll could be higher as many States do not report incidents The number of deaths of sanitation workers while cleaning septic tanks and sewers has risen, despite a ban on manual scavenging, with 620 cases reported since 1993, of which 88 occurred in the past three years, according to the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry. To a question by MPs Asaduddin Owaisi and Syed Imtiaz Jaleel...
More »Gujarat: Journalist, his family 'attacked' over critical report on govt project
-The Indian Express Harshad Ahir (34), city bureau chief of Gujarat Mitra, his wife Ketna (30) and their child stay in an apartment at Bhagdawada in Valsad. Ahmedabad, Surat: A bureau chief of a Gujarati daily in Valsad, his wife and one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, were allegedly assaulted by a former sarpanch and his two accomplices on Saturday night, days after the journalist’s report, critical of a government project undertaken by the accused,...
More »CBI court convicts former Gujarat BJP MP in RTI activist's murder
-IANS Former Gujarat BJP MP Dinu Bogha Solanki has been convicted in the murder of RTI activist Amit Jethva. The CBI judge had to twice seek security for self and family while hearing the case A Special Court of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) here on Saturday convicted former Gujarat BJP MP Dinu Bogha Solanki in the murder of RTI activist Amit Jethva. The court also convicted six others in the...
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