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Ecostani: Solely blaming stubble burning for Delhi’s pollution is incorrect

Delhi’s air quality has turned extremely bad again with the Air Quality Index hovering between severe and very severe category. The year-wise data shows that stubble fire incidents increased during Covid-19 pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 even though the air pollution level in Delhi did not spike as it happened in 2023 and 2024: This clearly indicates a delink …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Ecostani: Why the landmark RTI act is moribund and who is to blame

Hindustan Times

The only law in India that authorises people to question those in power, the Right To Information Act, has been weakened in several states including those ruled by the Congress, the party that introduced the landmark transparency law in 2005. In many states, state information commissions have been defunct for several years as the information commissioners, who hear the RTI …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Ecostani | Discord during festivities and over hyper-local issues, an emerging communal module

Hindustan Times

In the capital Shimla, protests broke out over a mosque in the Sanjauli area of the city while in Mandi, the ongoing controversy is about an illegally built wall of a mosque, built on government land. In Congress-ruled Karnataka’s Nagamangla in Mandya district, Hindu groups alleged that stones were pelted at a Ganesh procession while it was passing by a …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Only free-ranging cheetah found dead in MP’s Kuno; drowning suspected

Hindustan Times

The only cheetah from Namibia, to survive wilderness in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park was found dead on Tuesday morning with officials suspected drowning as the cause of death. Further details will be provided once the post-mortem report is received,” said Uttam Sharma, field director Kuno National Park. A senior forest officer, who was associated with Cheetah Project, said, “Pawan …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Ecostani | Unified Pension Scheme, a moral victory for the Opposition

Hindustan Times

The Unified Pension Scheme approved by the Union government on Saturday — a mix of contribution and assured pension, to replace the New Pension Scheme, a wholly contributory mechanism — will provide some social security to government employees after retirement. The scheme, which is virtually akin to the Old Pension Scheme that NPS replaced in 2004, assures government employees 50% …

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4 months ago

Ecostani | Two years of Project Cheetah: More pitfalls than success

Hindustan Times

On September 17, 2024, it will be two years since the first batch of eight Cheetahs arrived in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park from Namibia, in what was the world’s first attempt to re-wild the big cats in a totally different climatic zone. As per the Project Cheetah action plan, all the adult big cats in Kuno should have been …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Ecostani | Cabinet resolution against creamy layer is against the spirit of reservation

Hindustan Times

Last Friday, the Union cabinet passed a resolution saying there would be no “creamy layer” for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe categories, days after the Supreme Court called for the exclusion of the creamy layer from the ambit of SC /ST reservation. Over the years, the argument for introducing a creamy layer for SC/ST has gained ground but there is …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Ecostani | Rahul Gandhi tastes electoral success but the journey ahead is arduous

Hindustan Times

In politics, the perception of failure is more intense than success. Congress leader and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi should know: He has experienced it the most than any other political leader in India in the past 10 years. The Yatra also laid the foundation for the 2024 Lok Sabha electoral performance, in which Congress won 99 …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Ecostani | Climate change and tourist rush pose challenges to pristine glacial-clad Kinnaur

Hindustan Times

An old monk in Nako village in Himachal’s Kinnaur district, Wanktoo Lama, wearing a traditional Buddhist robe and a green Himachali cap, is exasperated with the rise in temperature in this lake village in the upper Himalayas. “When I was a young boy,” Wanktoo said, pointing at a young tourist at the newly built monastery with tin pent roof, “there …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Ecostani | Why Modi may find it difficult to accept Andhra and Bihar’s special status demand

Hindustan Times

For the first time since 2014, Narendra Modi is dependent on the Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu Desam Party and the Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal to serve as prime minister of the country for the third term. Granting special category status to Andhra Pradesh can open a pandora’s box of similar demands from other states. Andhra’s human development score for 2011-12 is …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Ecostani | Exit polls indicate Modi’s popularity is unmatched, difficult to dent

Hindustan Times

The exit polls on Saturday gave the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party a thumping majority with three exit polls predicting more than 400 seats for the National Democratic Alliance. The exit polls showed that the BJP was not losing anywhere in the country and pollsters claimed a definite “under current” for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. No opposition leader can match Modi’s …

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7 months ago

Ecostani | In the Swati Maliwal case, AAP gets a taste of its street politics

Hindustan Times

On Saturday, May 18, Delhi police arrested Bibhav Kumar, personal assistant to Delhi chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, in a case of assault registered by the party’s Rajya Sabha member and former Delhi Commission for Women chairperson, Swati Maliwal. Kejriwal made Maliwal, the Delhi Commission for Women chairperson in 2015, which also made her the youngest chairperson of a woman’s commission; …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Ecostani | Why the Congress may not go for the kill in Haryana

Hindustan Times

The state assembly elections in Haryana are slated for December 2024. A senior Congress leader said they were also apprehensive about whether all 10 JJP MLAs would support the Congress or not. The Congress and the Jannayak Janata Party on Thursday asked Haryana governor Bandaru Dattatreya for a floor test in the state assembly after three independent MLAs withdrew support …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Ecostani | Why the Congress may not go for the kill in Haryana

Hindustan Times

The Congress and the Jannayak Janata Party on Thursday asked Haryana governor Bandaru Dattatreya for a floor test in the state assembly after three independent MLAs withdrew support to the Nayab Singh Saini-led Bharatiya Janta Party government. The JJP, which has 10 MLAs in the 90 member-Haryana assembly, has also announced support to the Congress, if it stakes claim to …

Support Trust Assembly Congress Haryana Party Lok Sabha

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Ecostani | The silence of the Muslim voter could be real and strategic

Hindustan Times

There was silence outside Darul Uloom in Uttar Pradesh’s Deoband town, as students walked into India’s biggest Muslim seminary dressed in spotless white kurta-pyjamas and wearing a ‘taqiyah’, the round skull cap, on April 17, two days before polling was to be held for the first phase. “We will talk after June 4,” was his polite refusal, summing up the …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Ecostani | What’s on the mind of Indian voters as we go in for general elections in a week?

Hindustan Times

The CSDS-Lokniti pre-poll survey shows that unemployment, price rise, development and corruption were the four biggest issues in voters’ minds. The construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, India’s international standing and Hindutva — the core poll plank of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party — also find resonance among the voters. The survey, conducted through questionnaire-based in-person interviews, happened before …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Ecostani | As ED action continues against opposition leaders during code of conduct, where is the level playing field

Hindustan Times

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on March 21, six days after the Election Commission announced the seven-phase schedule for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Last week, the ED questioned Punjab excise department officials and Aam Aadmi Party’s Goa convener Amit Palekar, as well as three other party leaders. The ED has also registered a …

Kerala Delhi Congress Election Scam Lok Sabha Leaders

9 months, 1 week ago

Ecostani | Notification of CAA rules just days before announcement of national elections is a political signal

Hindustan Times

On March 14, Assam chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Himanta Biswa Sarma, told reporters in Guwahati that in four days since the Citizenship Amendment Act rules providing automatic citizenship to non-Muslims from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, who entered India before December 31, 2014, were notified, not even a single person had applied for citizenship under the rules in …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Ecostani | Himachal imbroglio is a commentary on the Congress high command

Hindustan Times

Sometime in January, rebel Congress legislator Rajinder Rana complained to the Congress high command about the “high handedness” of Himachal chief minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, in the latter’s presence and before other senior party leaders, in New Delhi. In February, with the Rajya Sabha poll around the corner, the party overruled Sukhu’s advice against fielding an outsider and nominated Abhishek …

Party Gandhi Lok Sabha Leaders Bjp Mla Singh

9 months, 4 weeks ago

Ecostani | A call to battle, and fight will be pitched

Hindustan Times

India has a long history of all kinds of mashed-up alliances, sometimes with contrary ideologies, to garner votes. In an election, where the opposition is unlikely to announce a prime ministerial candidate, a senior Congress leader said that the strategy is to put up a combined opposition candidate in most of the Lok Sabha constituencies, especially in the Hindi heartland, …

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10 months ago

Ecostani | Jayant Chaudhary hopes that the NDA will help his party — and the BJP, too

Hindustan Times

Since Jayant Chaudhary, president of the Rashtriya Lok Dal, a party with influence among Jats in western Uttar Pradesh, announced that he would be part of Bharatiya Janata Party -led National Democratic Alliance giving a severe blow to INDIA bloc, the Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has not spoken a word against him. The RLD had failed to win even …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Ecostani | Why EU’s carbon tax puts a spanner in climate change mitigation

Hindustan Times

India is likely to take the European Union to the World Trade Organisation over its proposed “restrictive” carbon tax on imports for six emission-intensive sectors on grounds that it is an “ill-conceived” idea, and has threatened to impose its own carbon tax on imports from the EU. In October 2023, the EU proposed a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, under which …

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Ecostani: Solely blaming stubble burning for Delhi’s pollution is incorrect

Ecostani: Why the landmark RTI act is moribund and who is to blame

Ecostani | Discord during festivities and over hyper-local issues, an emerging communal module

Only free-ranging cheetah found dead in MP’s Kuno; drowning suspected

Ecostani | Unified Pension Scheme, a moral victory for the Opposition

Ecostani | Two years of Project Cheetah: More pitfalls than success

Ecostani | Cabinet resolution against creamy layer is against the spirit of reservation

Ecostani | Rahul Gandhi tastes electoral success but the journey ahead is arduous

Ecostani | Climate change and tourist rush pose challenges to pristine glacial-clad Kinnaur

Ecostani | Why Modi may find it difficult to accept Andhra and Bihar’s special status demand

Ecostani | Exit polls indicate Modi’s popularity is unmatched, difficult to dent

Ecostani | In the Swati Maliwal case, AAP gets a taste of its street politics

Ecostani | Why the Congress may not go for the kill in Haryana

Ecostani | Why the Congress may not go for the kill in Haryana

Ecostani | The silence of the Muslim voter could be real and strategic

Ecostani | What’s on the mind of Indian voters as we go in for general elections in a week?

Ecostani | As ED action continues against opposition leaders during code of conduct, where is the level playing field

Ecostani | Notification of CAA rules just days before announcement of national elections is a political signal

Ecostani | Himachal imbroglio is a commentary on the Congress high command

Ecostani | A call to battle, and fight will be pitched

Ecostani | Jayant Chaudhary hopes that the NDA will help his party — and the BJP, too

Ecostani | Why EU’s carbon tax puts a spanner in climate change mitigation