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Wayanad landslides: how operators of earth movers have become good Samaritans at disaster zone

From coal mines in Chattisgarh to granite quarries in Malappuram, K. Raja has operated earth-moving equipment in different kinds of terrain and environment in many parts of the country, but nothing had prepared him for the heart-wrenching experience ahead when he set out to join the search and rescue operations in Wayanad. “This is the first time I am engaged …

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Opinion: Tiny movers of earth, and also our hearts

Opinion: Tiny movers of earth, and also our hearts Enlarge this image toggle caption Scott Simon/NPR Scott Simon/NPR Important world figures have come and gone all week at the United Nations General Assembly. As Amy Stewart writes her extraordinary 2004 book, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms, the wiggle of worms through the dirt "alter its composition, …

Ooty: Nilgiris Ecology and Animals Protection Samithi has called for action to book the realtors who have now begun to use mini earth-movers, in the guise of farm works, to landscape the tea gardens and other farm lands in Nilgiris to make them real estate hubs. Kumaran, president of the NEAPS, said that while there are strict restrictions on usage …

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Kochi: The Kochi corporation’s Brahmapuram waste treatment plant is stinking with corruption charges as there is no monitoring system to check its daily operation. The private contractor entrusted with shuffling and rearranging the garbage piles in the dumping yard using earth movers submits a bill of Rs.35 lakh to Rs.38 lakh every month. “The corporation invites tenders every year for …