OUR ENVIRONMENT ‘For every kilo of petha produced, 400 grams of waste adds to Agra’s pollution woes’ As per the findings of a recent study, Agra’s famous petha industry generates 17,800 kilograms of solid waste per day....
NEWS ETC Rising heat causing labour losses; 162 lost hours per person per year in India, finds a study A new study shows India is amongst the most affected countries showing the largest heat exposure impacts on heavy labour,...
NEWS ETC ‘Immediately sack MoS Ajay Kumar Mishra’: Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha over Lakhimpur Kheri incident Rahul Gandhi, while talking to reporters outside the Parliament stated that he demands an immediate resignation of Minister of State...
NEWS ETC Omicron outbreak unprecedented, vaccines alone won’t help in controlling it: WHO Amidst rising Omicron cases, there has been a demand to roll out booster doses, especially for those vaccinated early such...
NEWS ETC COVID 19 vaccines may not work against new variants: Covid Task Force chief VK Paul, the chief of India’s COVID Task Force, has stated that the COVID19 vaccines used in India’s vaccination exercise...
NEWS ETC Lakhimpur Kheri a ‘planned conspiracy’, says SIT; Court orders adding of murder charges against the accused The Special Investigation Team of the UP police probing the Lakhimpur Kheri violence incident of October 3, which killed eight...
NEWS ETC Omicron’s impact expected to be less severe due to rising COVID19 vaccination: Finance Ministry In its monthly report on economy, the Finance Ministry mentioned that the Omicron variant of COVID19 poses a risk to...
NEWS ETC Citing security concerns, SC approves double lane for Char Dham road project in Uttarakhand The acceptance came almost a month after Attorney General K K Venugopal, while representing the Union government, urged the apex...
NEWS ETC Parliament Winter Session: CBSE drops passage from question paper after Sonia Gandhi flags sexist undertone A reading comprehension passage in the CBSE’s class 10 question paper was criticised for its sexist content by Congress leader...
NEWS ETC Ambient air pollution aside, PM2.5 levels in Delhi’s households are up to 29 times beyond WHO’s safe limit EPIC-India’s new study has found that the indoor air pollution (PM2.5) levels in low and high income households in Delhi...
