The coal-belching city of Jharia in Jharkhand is the most polluted in India, while Dhanbad, known for its rich coal reserves and industries, is the second-most polluted city in the country, according to a Greenpeace India report. According to the fourth Airpocalypse report by Greenpeace India, 231 Indian cities out of 287 had air pollution …
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The Supreme Court has indicated that it will uphold a Tamil Nadu government order that notified the Nilgiris Elephant Corridor in 2010. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices S A Nazeer and Sanjiv Khanna also ordered the setting up of a committee headed by a retired judge and comprising experts to consider …
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On October 2 last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gleefully announced that India has become open-defecation free and hyped on the hundreds of thousands of toilets built under his government’s ambitious Swachh Bharat Abhiyan while paying a deaf ear to the feedback from critics, who shunned his announcement saying that India was light years away from achieving the milestone. The …
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Mumbai is reeling under intense cold wave conditions. Well, at least the residents believe so and are quite happy that winter has finally arrived in the city. The temperature dropped to 15.4 degrees Celsius in the suburbs on the intervening light of Wednesday-Thursday, making it the coldest night of the season. The minimum temperature in South Mumbai was 17.6 degree …
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In a shocking statement from a government official, NITI Aayog member VK Saraswat has reportedly said that the internet service in the Jammu and Kashmir region was used to watch ‘gandi filmein’ (dirty films). Since August 5, Jammu and Kashmir has seen unprecedented crackdown and suspension of internet remains in force for many people, though a recent order restored 2G …
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It has been quite some time since the heavy-handedness of the Uttar Pradesh Police has come to the limelight. Peaceful demonstrators against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act have been thrashed, threatened on camera and even warned of disastrous consequences. The entire state has plunged into a dark era of sorts ever since the resistance against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act began to …
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Union Minister of State for MSME Pratap Chandra Sarangi attacked the Congress for spreading misinformation about the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), saying that those who do not accept India’s freedom, unity, and Vande Mataram, have no right to stay in the country. “Those who set the country on fire are not patriots. Those who do not accept India’s freedom, unity, …
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At a time when people around the globe are facing the wrath of plastic waste, more than 300 kg of mixed plastic waste was collected in the clean-up drive, by young climate activists recently with the non-government organisation HOPE: Healing Our Planet Earth. The plastic waste management and up-cycling non-profit organisation is on a mission towards a vision for a …
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The UN aviation watchdog will join the investigation into the crash of the Ukrainian airliner in Iran that killed all the 176 people on board. Minutes after the Ukrainian flight PS752 took off from Tehran last week, it came crashing down killing all the passengers and crew. Among those killed were dozens of Iranians and Canadians. The flight was headed …
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In October last year, a piece of news broke out that swung the personnel of Delhi Police into action instantly. It was a high-profile case involving the niece of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As it happened, PM Modi’s niece Damyanti Ben Modi’s purse containing cash of Rs 56,000 and two mobile phones were wrenched from her grasp by two persons …
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