-Hindustan Times The Indo-Tibetan border police (ITBP) said that the incident occurred at around 12:45pm on the Reckong Peo-Shimla highway in the Kinnaur district. A major landslide was reported from the Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday. The incident is feared to have buried more than 40 people under the debris, according to news agencies. Citing deputy commissioner Abid Hussain Sadiq, PTI reported that several vehicles, including a Himachal Road Transport...
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Flash floods triggered by heavy rains hit Himachal; 1 killed, 10 missing
-PTI/ The Hindu A search operation is being carried out by the police and fire brigade teams. Shimla: At least one person was killed while 10 have gone missing as flash floods triggered by incessant rains lashed Himachal Pradesh, a senior disaster management official said on Wednesday. State disaster management director Sudesh Kumar Mokhta said that one person was killed and nine went missing in flash floods triggered by a cloudburst in the...
More »India learns a bitter lesson for disregarding crucial warnings and recommendations on Covid-19
In the month of April this year, there has been an unprecedented upsurge in daily new cases and daily new deaths in the country due to Covid-19. States, which reported large increases in daily new cases and daily new deaths, are Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, to name but a few. Data accessed from https://www.covid19india.org/, which is a crowdsourced platform and an independent aggregator of daily Covid-19 figures and...
More »Only 59 patients undergoing treatment at world's largest 10,000-bed Covid centre
-ANI/ Livemint.com Officials also claimed that this is the first time since its opening that the number of patients has reached close to 50. As the total number of COVID-19 patients has crossed the 1 crore-mark, the world's largest 10,000-bed Sardar Patel COVID centre in Delhi's Chhatarpur area has just 59 patients currently undergoing treatment. According to the data compiled by Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), which is operating the centre, said that this...
More »A case for whistle-blower anonymity -Suhrith Parthasarathy
-The Hindu Business Line Anonymity can protect unpopular individuals from retaliation - and their ideas from suppression - at the hand of an intolerant society The Supreme Court of India has, thankfully, decided to reconsider an earlier order calling for revealing the identity of the whistle-blower while hearing a petition alleging gross misconduct against the Director of the country's foremost police agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). On September 15, a...
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