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TopicRamsar Sites

Topic: Ramsar Sites

Vijay govt halts Rs 2,000-crore housing project in Chennai after environment clearance revoked

Brigade Morgan Heights was planned as a high-rise residential development, comprising 3 residential towers reaching up to 18 floors, with 2, 3 and 4 BHK luxury units.

Shekha Jheel Bird Sanctuary in Aligarh becomes India’s 99th Ramsar site

A freshwater lake situated 17 kms from Aligarh, the Shekha Jheel has recorded the presence of 249 bird species in its vicinity, out of which 62 are specifically dependent on the wetland.

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Pakistan’s paradox under Asim Munir: A broker for the world, a bruised state for citizens

Pakistan is busy monetising on geopolitical disorder even as disorder consumes its own peripheries.

Despite PM Modi’s appeal to cut fertiliser use, farmers show no sign of scaling back—Parliament data

Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange

Gen VN Sharma, who led Army in the turbulent late eighties, dies at 97

Hailing from an illustrious military family, he was son of Maj Gen Amar Nath Sharma. His eldest brother Maj Som Nath Sharma is the first recipient of the posthumous Param Vir Chakra.

India’s Gen Z has opened a breach, for BJP to fill or Opposition to widen

The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.