-Scroll.in As the sea ravages coastal settlements, seawalls are springing up. But real solutions lie elsewhere, far away from the coast. Nine-year old Hasain Sina’s T-shirt was about the same shade of blue as the tarpaulin stretched taut across the broken roofs. He picked his way through a narrow rubble-strewn lane lined by the husks of modest homes. They looked as though they had been sliced vertically by some gigantic scalpel, their...
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Day after massive blaze, Delhi’s garbage dump still smouldering -Karn Pratap Singh
-The Hindustan Times Delhi Police registered a first information report in connection with the landfill fire against unknown persons on Tuesday. New Delhi: Over 30 hours after a major fire broke out at east Delhi’s Ghazipur landfill site -- Delhi’s biggest waste dump -- firefighters on Tuesday continued to put out the blaze even as they battled swampy stretches, a hostile terrain which their vehicles could not tread, challenge to reach the...
More »Around 3,400 communal riots took place from 2016-2020: Centre -Malavika Murali
-Hindustan Times MoS home affairs Nityanand Rai said 857 communal or religious riot cases were registered in 2020, 438 in 2019, 512 in 2018, 723 in 2017 and 869 in 2016 NEW DELHI: The central government on Tuesday informed the Parliament that India witnessed 3,399 cases of communal or religious rioting during the period 2016-2020. MoS home affairs Nityanand Rai made the disclosure in response to a question posed by Congress MP Shashi...
More »‘Compromise’ on TRIPS waiver is a sellout -Latha Jishnu
-Down to Earth Tough new conditions emerge in the compromise deal to ease WTO intellectual property barriers to production of COVID-19 medical tools We are back to square one. Back to the beginning after 18 months of a wearying, tortuous series of negotiations that carried on while millions of lives hung in the balance — and still do. The waiver of intellectual property (IP) rights on medicines, vaccines and diagnostics to fight the...
More »Onion output likely to be more than last year in FY22; potato slightly less -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard Total horticulture production pegged at 333.3 million tonnes in 2021-22, outstripping foodgrains output again India’s potato and tomato production could be marginally less in 2021-22 as compared to the previous year while onion output could be almost 17 per cent more than last year, the first advance estimate of horticulture production released today said. The government also said that total horticulture production is estimated to be at 333.3 million tonnes, a...
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