Tents have been set up for families displaced by the swollen Yamuna near Mayur Vihar. Delhi govt supplies essential items, as women & children gather in queues for food outside the camps.
Until we find the answers to climate change that can ease flooding, a nation-wide implementation of state-of-the-art flood forecasting systems is the only way to go.
Thousands of residents are awaiting flood relief even after a month of the CM’s promise of Rs 10,000 aid. Govt claims over Rs 650 crore has been disbursed.
On the journey, ThePrint meets an expat nurse-turned-relief worker, NDRF personnel, as well as some who have lost everything but want to get on with life.
IAS officer Prasanth Nair is the inspiration behind an international effort to collate genuine distress calls and route them to the relevant officials.
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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