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Per the Report, India witnessed extreme weather events on 255 of the 274 days of the first nine months of 2024, and these killed more than 3,200 people.
Though the union government has pumped in almost Rs 40,000 crore into the flagship Namami Gange programme since 2014, several concerns – including dysfunctional sewage treatment plants and bad governance – abound.
Along with eating into the riverine vegetation along the Mula-Mutha river, the riverfront development project that aims to address flooding and make the river more ‘accessible’ to people will not really do so, say activists.
New analysis says that particulate pollution is the greatest threat to human health in India.
This year, India has been ranked lowest – 180 – in the Environment Performance Index. While the Union environment ministry has raised objections to the rankings, the lead scientist of the EPI stated that the EPI has always ranked countries on the current state of environmental conditions.
Heatwaves in the waters are reducing monsoonal rains over central India, while the rapid warming of the ocean’s northern portions is intensifying cyclones.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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