Environment
KCR may have dissolved Telangana Vidhan Sabha
Former TRS leader and Chevella MP Konda Vishweshwar Reddy Sunday hinted at the possibility of a “tacit understanding” among the ruling party in Telangana and the BJP behind Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s move to dissolve the Vidhan Sabha before completion of its full term. The dissolution of the Assembly in September this year had …
No Indian minister should go for Kartarpur Corridor stone-laying
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Subramanian Swamy on Sunday backed Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh’s decision to deny the invitation to attend the stone-laying ceremony of the Kartarpur Corridor on the Pakistan side. “No Indian minister should go to the other side of the border until Pakistan stops cross-border terrorism,” he said. “I don’t think any …
Narendra Modi in Madhya Pradesh
Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the Congress on Sunday for bringing his parents into a political slugfest, alleging that it was being done at the behest of party chief Rahul Gandhi. He also justified his own tirade against the Nehru-Gandhi family, addressing out that unlike his parents, they occupied top positions in politics and the …
BJP accuses Congress of having ‘feudalistic mindset’
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday stated that the Congress’ remark on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother showed nothing but the party’s “feudalistic mindset.” Labeling a press conference in Bhopal, BJP vice-president Prabhat Jha said the Congress was so perturbed by the persona of the prime minister that they had to resort to attacking …
Congress supports ‘Urban Naxals’ but BJP will put them behind bars
BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday accused the Congress of supporting “Urban Naxals” and said his party will put Maoists in jail if it is voted to power in Telangana. “Urban Naxals” is a word used to describe city-based supporters working in alleged front organizations of proscribed Maoist outfits. Labeling a public meeting in Nirmal …
Maharashtra: Drought, market realities keep Gen Next away from farming
In his over forty years as a farmer, Ramesh Bacchav does not remember anything, neither depressed markets nor burgeoning loans, ever causing him to question his pride in his work. Until three years ago, when the 50-year-old accompanied his younger son for an entrance exam in Vadodara. “At the exam center, other parents seeing off …
Excess rainfall causing Kerala floods a result of climate change
The India Met Department chief KJ Ramesh said Friday that excessive rainfall that led to floods in Kerala was an outcome of climate change. He also stated of a new technology that has been developed to assess the rise of water levels in rivers and reservoirs due to rain which can help state government minutely …
Sikkim increases forest cover by over 4 percent since 1993
A plethora of initiatives for preserving biodiversity in Sikkim such as sprawling mass awareness and adopting an eco-friendly policy have led to an increase of its forest cover by over four percent since 1993, Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling has said. The green cover in the tiny northeastern state has increased to 47.62 percent in …
Africa account for 80 percent of the world’s malaria cases: WHO
India and 15 other countries in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for around 80 percent of the malaria cases reported globally last year, as per the WHO report which notes that a whopping 1.25 billion people in India were at the risk of contracting the mosquito-borne disease. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2018 World malaria survey, however, …
Take the lead in the fight against climate change
The climate output of developing nations are ambitious despite their contribution to climate change is minimal, Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said Tuesday, asking developed nations to fulfill their climate obligations “expeditiously”. Labeling the ministerial meet of BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India, and China) countries hosted by the Union Environment Ministry, Vardhan said developed countries …
Natural gas production to rise by a third if output locked in ONGC
India’s natural gas production will rise by a third provided the result locked in a dozen fields of state-owned ONGC and OIL is opened up by giving remunerative market prices, people with knowledge of the matter said. India Presently produces about 90 million standard cubic meters per day (mmscmd) of natural gas and has ambitious …
CBI DIG corruption charges
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Tuesday commented that CBI DIG’s M K Sinha’s allegations of corruption against senior government officials in his affidavit to the Supreme Court are the newest episode of a crime thriller “Chowkidar is the thief” playing out in Delhi. “Officers are tired, trust is broken and democracy is crying,” Rahul Gandhi said, …