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2 weeks ago

Income levels of salaried class in India have stagnated in recent years

Last week, Niti Aayog member Arvind Virmani said in an interview that while employment is increasing, real wages for regular salaried jobs have not kept up with inflation over the last seven years. An analysis of the earnings data for salaried workers, casual labourers, and self-employed persons from Periodic Labour Force Survey reports shows that when adjusted for inflation, wages …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Peak winter pollution levels dipping: Report

Hindustan Times

Average pollution levels in the Capital during the winter months are on a rise year-on-year, a study carried out by the Centre for Science and Environment has revealed. CSE in its analysis looked at PM 2.5 data for Delhi shared by the Central Pollution Control Board for the months October to January over the last five years. However, the data …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Teacher, activists prevent child marriage in Kolkata

The Hindu

Sujaya Roychowdhury Pal, a teacher in charge of a State-run girls’ school in Kolkata, could not be any happier on Teachers’ Day when she found that one of her students was participating in the celebrations on Thursday. BITAN is one of the NGOs working across India as part of the Child Marriage Free India campaign. The campaign uses awareness, counselling …

Marriage Kolkata Child Ngo Child Marriage Bitan

1 year, 2 months ago

The peaks and troughs of India's quest for clean air

Hindustan Times

Data and documents tabled in the recently concluded winter session of the Parliament by the ministry of environment, forests and climate change paint a mixed picture of the crucial battle against the climate crisis. The documents also detailed the funds allocated for air pollution control under the National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme and the 15th Finance Commission. Air Quality …

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1 year, 9 months ago

How dancers can avoid injury

Live Mint

Having dancers as friends is to know that they are immensely graceful individuals, but it’s also to know that they are prone to injuries – a result of long, intensive rehearsal sessions, lack of adequate warm up and cooling practices, and just pushing themselves too hard to get their body to move in incredible flips, twists, twirls and jumps. For …

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1 year, 10 months ago

PM Should Answers Issues Raised by Ex-Army Chief Over Pulwama Attack: Cong's Shaktisinh Gohil

News 18

Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should break his silence and answers the issues raised by former Army chief General Shankar Roychowdhury over the 2019 Pulwama terror attack. He said the prime minister’s “silence” despite the reported allegations of former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik over the Pulwama attack and the questions raised by …

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2 years ago

Trump Didn’t Get Arrested (Not Yet, At Least). That Was Just AI.

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING When former President Donald Trump announced in a scathing Truth Social post that he would be arrested on Tuesday, cities prepared for the worst. He did, after all, call on his supporters to “protest, protest, protest” and “Take our nation back.” His looming not-so-guaranteed arrest comes on the heels of a Manhattan district attorney investigation into the …

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2 years, 6 months ago

New global review of regulatory approaches to implement regional action released

India Today

On the occasion of the UN International Day of Clean Air for the blue sky, the Centre for Science and Environment has warned that air has no boundaries - because of this, clean air action plans that draw hard boundaries around cities for the clean-up job are failing to address the major pollution sources in the larger orbit. The National …

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3 years, 4 months ago

While spotlight’s on Delhi, smaller northern towns often fare worse in air quality

The Hindu

An analysis of air quality data by The Hindu shows that Agra, Firozabad, and Vrindavan were more polluted than Delhi during the week after Deepavali. While Delhi was among the top 10 most polluted cities for three out of seven days, Agra, Firozabad, and Vrindavan were part of the list for four days, as per the air quality index data …

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3 years, 11 months ago

West Bengal elections 2021: Vulnerable voters fear political violence, religious persecution

Firstpost

Editor’s Note: The history of political violence and bloodshed in West Bengal is an election tradition since the 40s, peaking during the 60s and 70s and enduring till date. With the growth of the TMC, rise in anti-incumbency factors and an ideological vacuum in the state, the saffron party started to make inroads in Bengal,” said Roychowdhury. The majority of …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Gunning for victory in Bengal

The Hindu

The 2019 Lok Sabha election in West Bengal is a traumatic memory for Ali Hussain Mansuri, a resident of Barrackpore, about 50 km Kolkata. Defections and cases Long before defections became commonplace in West Bengal politics, Barrackpore saw Arjun Singh, a four-term Trinamool Congress MLA, defect to the BJP. Emphasising his century-old family connection to the jute mills, Singh said, …

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4 years, 6 months ago

Back on track with the Metro?

Live Mint

The moment Rashmi S. saw him on Platform No.3 of Delhi’s Rajiv Chowk Metro station, she ran to hug him. “I was a little anxious about whether it was safe but once I was inside, it felt so familiar and normal that I forgot all my worries.” That’s the comfort of Metro, points out sociologist Santosh Desai, who terms the …

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5 years, 4 months ago

Delhi, adjoining areas gasp for breath as Punjab, Haryana govts fail to prevent stubble burning; environmentalists decry apathy

Firstpost

The thick, smoky haze hanging over the National Capital Region has led to a sudden rise in cases of respiratory illness, breathing difficulty, itchy throats and watery eyes. Despite assurances from the government and precautions taken ahead of Diwali, the air quality in Delhi on Wednesday turned out to be in the ‘severe’ category. The failure to strictly implement deadlines …

Delhi Action Quality Pollution Haryana Air Diwali

7 years, 3 months ago

Delhi tests water cannons to combat deadly air pollution

CNN

Story highlights A machine sprays atomized water up to 230 feet into the air It aims to merge with dust particles and replicate effects of rain to lower pollution level New Delhi CNN — As it grapples with toxic smog, the Delhi government has turned to an unusual solution to tackle its air pollution problem. Deputy CM @misodia & Environment …

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7 years, 4 months ago

Delhi pollution fuels anger in citizens as toxic air burns eyes, throat

Live Mint

New Delhi: As thick smog crept over India’s capital this week and smudged landmarks from view, Nikunj Pandey could feel his eyes and throat burning. “A basic right of humanity.” Pandey is among many people in New Delhi who have become more aware of the toxic air in recent years and are increasingly frustrated at the lack of meaningful action …

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8 years, 11 months ago

Wait! The Web Isn't Dead After All. Google Made Sure of It

Wired

In 2010, the web died. Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, Google At about the same time, Rahul Roy-Chowdhury took charge of the Google team that oversees Chrome, the company's web browser. "Now people don't have to install an app," says Amar Nagaram, the vice president of mobile engineering at e-commerce site Flipkart, an Indian company that has found enormous success in building a …

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8 years, 11 months ago

Pollution monitoring in Mumbai not up to the mark, says study

Hindustan Times

Even as Mumbaiites have suffered from poor air quality in the past few months, the city along with Pune and Jaipur have minimal air quality monitoring and management. A 10-city rapid assessment by Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment has revealed that Mumbai is among the two cities with the least number of manual and real-time air monitoring stations, the …

Delhi Mumbai Data Quality Pollution Air Stations

10 years, 3 months ago

Delhi’s residents are breathing worse air than previously known

The Hindu

Early on November 13, Bhure Lal, chairperson of Delhi’s Environment Pollution Authority, set off from his residence in Lutyen’s Delhi for his daily walk in Lodhi Gardens, his personal air pollution monitor attached. Earlier this year, the World Health Organisation pegged Delhi’s average annual mean PM 2.5 level at 153 microgrammes per cubic metre compared with 56 microgrammes per cubic …

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10 years, 8 months ago

Prime accused arrested for student's murder at Bamongachi

The Hindu

Shyamal Karmakar, the prime accused in the murder of college student Sourav Chowdhury in Bamongachi in North 24 Parganas district, was arrested on Tuesday night from Rampurhat railway station in Birbhum district, police said on Wednesday. Eight persons had been arrested so far in connection with the murder, said Tanmay Roychowdhury, Superintendent of Police of North 24 Parganas. Chowdhury’s family …

Karmakar Chowdhury

11 years, 5 months ago

‘Cyclists and pedestrians account for over half of all road fatalities’

The Hindu

“Cyclists and pedestrians account for more than half of all road fatalities in the country, but they draw public disdain and policy hostility,” a study by the University of Michigan and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, has observed. The study also indicates that the number of people killed in road accidents in India have increased at eight per cent …

Delhi Road Cse Narain Roychowdhury

11 years, 5 months ago

Environmentalist Sunita Narain injured in a road accident

The Hindu

Centre of Science and Environment director-general Sunita Narain was injured in a road accident while cycling near the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here on Sunday morning. However, minutes after the accident, occupants of another car, which was passing by, spotted an injured Ms. Narain and rushed her to the AIIMS Trauma Centre where she is reported to be …

Speeding Car Narain Roychowdhury

11 years, 5 months ago

Pollution exceeds permissible limit in most Indian cities

India TV News

New Delhi: Nearly three-fourths of Indian cities have particulate pollution levels exceeding permissible standards affecting the health of lakhs of people across the country, according to an analysis released on Thursday. The analysis is part of a book 'Good News Bad News: Clearing the air in Indian cities' by the Centre for Science and Environment which was released on Thursday …

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11 years, 11 months ago

Parking hike has activists happy and traders upset

Hindustan Times

The hike in charges of surface parking lots in its jurisdiction by the New Delhi Municipal council may have made green activists happy, but it has ruffled quite a few feathers in the trader community. HT Image Environment activists said this was a step in the direction to contain the crisis vehicular traffic and lack of parking space were creating. …

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12 years, 11 months ago

Former Army Chiefs Ask Why Govt Took No Action On Bribe Issue

India TV News

New Delhi, Mar 27: Terming Army Chief Gen V K Singh's claims of being offered bribe of Rs 14 crore to swing a ‘sub-standard' defence deal as a “serious matter”, two former Army chiefs on Monday questioned why the government did not take action when it was reported to the Defence Minister. You cannot afford to turn a blind eye …

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Income levels of salaried class in India have stagnated in recent years

Peak winter pollution levels dipping: Report

Teacher, activists prevent child marriage in Kolkata

The peaks and troughs of India's quest for clean air

How dancers can avoid injury

PM Should Answers Issues Raised by Ex-Army Chief Over Pulwama Attack: Cong's Shaktisinh Gohil

Trump Didn’t Get Arrested (Not Yet, At Least). That Was Just AI.

New global review of regulatory approaches to implement regional action released

While spotlight’s on Delhi, smaller northern towns often fare worse in air quality

West Bengal elections 2021: Vulnerable voters fear political violence, religious persecution

Gunning for victory in Bengal

Back on track with the Metro?

Delhi, adjoining areas gasp for breath as Punjab, Haryana govts fail to prevent stubble burning; environmentalists decry apathy

Delhi tests water cannons to combat deadly air pollution

Delhi pollution fuels anger in citizens as toxic air burns eyes, throat

Wait! The Web Isn't Dead After All. Google Made Sure of It

Pollution monitoring in Mumbai not up to the mark, says study

Delhi’s residents are breathing worse air than previously known

Prime accused arrested for student's murder at Bamongachi

‘Cyclists and pedestrians account for over half of all road fatalities’

Environmentalist Sunita Narain injured in a road accident

Pollution exceeds permissible limit in most Indian cities

Parking hike has activists happy and traders upset

Former Army Chiefs Ask Why Govt Took No Action On Bribe Issue