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Sunday, April 28, 2024
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Topic: floods

Maharashtra parties promise not to politicise floods, then do just that a week later

From distributing relief packages with leaders’ photos on them to talking up their own relief work, all Maharashtra parties have politicised the flood crisis.

Amit Shah to conduct aerial survey as death toll in Karnataka floods rises to 31

An official release said the death toll has risen to 31, with four more deaths Saturday night, while 14 people were missing.

12 dead, thousands more stranded as Karnataka struggles with floods and rain

Chief Minister B.S.Yediyurappa announced Rs 5 lakh ex-gratia for families of people killed in the flood, to be given in 24 hours.

Rains continue to batter Kerala, claims 22 lives & displaces more than 20,000 in 3 days

A red alert has been issued in nine districts with the worst affected being Wayanad, Malappuram, Kannur and Idukki, as landslides and floods ravage the southern state.

How to tame swollen Ghaggar? Flood fear looms but consensus eludes Punjab, Haryana

Ghaggar river, which is already flowing above the danger mark, is expected to swell further with the forecast of more showers in the coming days.

China says its given satellite data on flood-hit regions to India

China's Ambassador to India Sun Weidong said it had provided the data on ISRO's request.

Kaziranga needs to flood to survive, real problem is roads & hotels in animal escape path

During floods, wild animals migrate towards Karbi-Anglong hills — an act of survival embedded in their DNA. But the animal corridors are now cramped.

Freak weather events pose new risk to India’s renewable energy goals

Extreme weather events have become latest risk to PM Modi’s renewable energy goal to quadruple solar power generation to 100 gigawatts by 2022.

In Uttam Kumar & Sharmila Tagore’s film ‘Amanush’, floods restore faith in human spirit

Directed and produced by Shakti Samanta in both Bengali and Hindi, Amanush is a classic and a lesson in the complexity of human emotions.

Not water, Chennai has a governance crisis. This ex-IAS officer has the solution

Chennai has lost several water bodies and more than one-fifth of its greenery in the last 20 years.

On Camera

America’s out-of-control militarised police forces are a threat to democracy

The world watched aghast as police armed with tasers, tear-gas masks—and in one case backed up by snipers—arrested hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at universities across the United States.

Government allows export of onions to six countries, sets buffer stock target

The government had imposed an export prohibition in order to ensure adequate domestic availability of onions in the country.

Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.