Oct 29, 2024 · Conflicting priorities. Historically, widespread hunting for sport and food precipitated the GIB’s decline, accelerated by vehicular access to remote areas, as IndiaSpend reported in May 2023. But today, the continued decline in the GIB population has been triggered by loss and degradation of grasslands which are their habitat.

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Jan 21, 2023 · In late November 2022, IndiaSpend met injured workers and relatives of workers who have died in accidents in factories and construction sites in Delhi and Ahmedabad, to understand the barriers to recovery and redress. Safety at factories is often lax, support after an accident is inadequate, and financial and job insecurity and government apathy make pursuing a case against owners and/or ...

Jul 3, 2023 · Hyderabad: Swanky offices and workspaces greet commuters as they cross K.R. Puram and enter Mahadevpura in India’s IT capital, Bengaluru.On one side are the offices of all the tech giants such as Samsung, Amazon and Deloitte, and on the other are restaurants ranging from fine dining to dhabas catering to the tastes of a diverse set of migrants who reside in Bengaluru’s IT belt.

Nov 23, 2024 · Further, the global fashion industry is also the second-biggest consumer of water, we had reported. It takes 3,781 litres of water--equivalent to the amount of water a person drinks over a period of three years--to make a pair of jeans, starting from the production of cotton to the retail delivery of the final product.. Textile waste is divided into three categories: pre-consumer waste, which ...

Mar 20, 2024 · Various factors have contributed to this crisis in the city. The Urban Water Balance Report for Bengaluru, released by WELL Labs, a city-based research organisation, highlights some of these concerns.Key aspects include reliance on over-exploited groundwater, limited access to BWSSB pipelines, neglected lake maintenance, and …

Nov 23, 2022 · Over 70% of Odisha's population is engaged in agriculture and allied sectors, making it primarily an agrarian economy.Organic farming in the state first got a push through the Odisha Organic Policy 2018.Now the aim of the state government's Odisha Agriculture Policy 2020, named Samrudhi (which means progress) is to increase organic farmland in the state from 20,800 hectares in 2020 to 200,000 ...

Sep 27, 2021 · In India, the central government and several states are launching programmes to support the production and use of green hydrogen. In September 2021, Kerala initiated talks with energy companies to make green hydrogen from a solar power facility at Cochin Airport. In August, the prime minister announced the National Hydrogen Mission to support India's energy transition goals.

Apr 4, 2024 · New Delhi: Homeless persons in Delhi are concentrated in the city’s central parts, which have a relatively lower land surface temperature overall, compared to the industrial zones on its peripheries, but include several secondary heat islands exacerbating the experience of summers for those living on the streets of the national capital. As the country braces for yet another intense summer ...

1 Enquiry Report on Elephant Electrocution Incidences in East Singhbhum and Giridih Districts of Jharkhand During November 2023 Background The State of Jharkhand, located in the East-Central landscape of India