-NDTV In a few days, on the 29th of November, a group of four safai karmacharis (sweepers) and three beldars (diggers) along with three more senior persons, all working for the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), will be returning from a week-long official trip to Japan and South Korea where they are learning first-hand about sanitation, cleanliness, waste disposal as well as the maintenance of urban colonies, markets etc. The NDMC...
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Madras high court stays cancellation of Greenpeace India’s registRATion
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Madras high court on Friday stayed the government order cancelling Greenpeace India's registRATion, observing that the Tamil Nadu Registrar of Societies (RoS) had not followed principles of natural justice. The Tamil Nadu RoS had cancelled the registRATion of Greenpeace India -- the environmental NGO that has been campaigning against air pollution and the unsustainable use of natural resources in India -- earlier this month. After getting...
More »Tamil Nadu deluge climate change trailer, matches global warming signs -Zia Haq
-Hindustan Times Heavy rains and deadly flooding in south India, a region that saw a killer heat wave this summer, are weather patterns that appear to fit the scenarios of climate change in India, IMD chief Laxman Singh RAThore has said. “They (emerging weather patterns) fit the larger picture of climate change predicted by Indian scientists as well as global reports,” RAThore told HT. Episodes of excessive rainfall are increasing while the...
More »‘NE monsoon a blessing for farmers’ -PRATiksha Ramkumar
-The Times of India COIMBATORE: Farmers across the district are a happy lot this time, as no crops were damaged in the northeast monsoon showers. They also expect a good harvest this season, thanks to the right amount of rainfall. The district had received almost 250mm of in a span of two weeks. Even as widespread flooding was reported in paddy fields across the Cauvery delta and southern parts of the state, farms...
More »Children’s deaths from pneumonia, diarrhoea bring India shame -Ramya Kannan
-The Hindu India has the highest number of pneumonia and diarrhoea deaths among children globally, reports the International Vaccine Access Centre (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The 2015 annual report of the IVAC reads like a repeat of last year’s report card, despite the progress the country is making to acceleRATe immunisation. With 2,97,114 deaths, India is once again at the top of the list of countries with...
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