Ranjit Devraj
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Celebrating anyone’s death , that too by an armed force of India, is shameful & morally reprehensible. Will their seniors take action & counsel their men ? Will the govt condemn such disgraceful conduct? @indianarmy
RAHUL@RahulSeeker
22nd Nov, 2024 Dist Reserve Guards, Sukma, Chattisgarh dancing, celebrating after the killing of 10 Maoists (3 women). During the Kargil War Indian Army was praised across the world for the utmost level of discipline giving due respect to the corpses of Pak soldiers. And Here Today's India. Do such Celebration of death by any State force is a sign of virtue? It is not that today's world is unaware of this decaying state immortality, inhumanity taking control over every institution. After death an enemy also deserves respect and these deads were Indians too. Not denying They went on the wrong path but perhaps they also could be return back if the state had any intention to work on it.
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@CBhattacharji @SFC_India @doctorsoumya @CSTEP_India @vismitag @DrMariaNeira @ravishndtv @SnehaMKoshy But, they will never shut down the WtEs. Winter even include them in the GRAP regime.
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Forget AQI. Monitoring PM2.5 is vital to protect your health.
Here’s what 500-600-700 micrograms of PM2.5 #AirPollution just now looks like
Day’s avg is 15 as per WHO’s guidelines. So Delhi’s pollution ~40 times above safe limits.
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@UnamPillai @Mint_Lounge Monitor lizards were used to scale sheer fortress walls. Apparently the animals had a powerful grip that could support the weight of a soldier. ( udumbu in Malayalam)
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On the place of animals--as deliverers of death, war machines, and often life savers--in human history, featuring horses, bullocks, dogs, elephants, and one rather tragic goat in Vijayanagara. My latest column for @Mint_Lounge livemint.com/mint-lounge/id…
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@JasjeevGandhiok @DelhiPolice City of self-destructive people
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It's 2 am and I can still hear firecrackers going off. Like clockwork, Delhi flouts the ban year-on-year, knowing fully well the repercussions. Knowing fully well air quality will spiral. The @DelhiPolice doing ever so well to make sure not a single soul gets penalised either.
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Dr. Manju Sharma’s passing is a big loss for the life sciences and biotechnology community. When at the Department of Science and Technology, she drove the creation of the National Biotechnology Board, which then became the Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
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@UnamPillai @PenguinIndia Congratulations -- looking forward to reading it.
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Good morning. Happy to announce my new book.
Will release in a few weeks with Allen Lane @PenguinIndia
More details here: amazon.in/Gods-Guns-Miss…
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@LouDelBello @Indiametdept Buildings don't get a chance to cool down at night and get progressively hotter, turning into ovens.
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Imagine +35C being the coolest you'll be today.
In a heatwave, it's not the maximum temperature that should worry you, but the lowest, usually recorded at night.
That is hitting sinister new highs in India - with today's highest minimum reported by @Indiametdept touching 35.4C
Rituparna Chatterjee@MasalaBai
I don't think people elsewhere fully grasp what's happening in NCR and just how hot it is. At 7am, the tap water is boiling hot. The sun hurts the eye. There's no night time anymore. For 24 hours the temperature feels above 40C. Which means during night the water is as hot
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@SumanSahai This will lead to a change in the legal codes and processes and weaken the rule of law.
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However heinous the crime and cover up attempts of the family of the Porsche murderer, the law must be followed in punishing these people. India cannot be bulldozer happy, it is not a banana republic
MUMBAI NEWS@Mumbaikhabar9
MPG Club in Hill station Mahabaleshwar owned by Vivek Agrawal raised to ground by bulldozer on Saturday. Vivek is the father of underaged boy, who had mowed to death 2 youngsters to death under his Porsche Car in Pune on 16th May.
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@RemaNagarajan No clue as to number of internal migrants in India when Supreme Court asked. CITU said 200 million
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A terrible anniversary that must never be forgotten
When a govt out of touch with the lived reality of three quarters of its urban population shut down an entire country and forced millions of poor people to trudge 100s/1000s of kilometres to get home
So many died of exhaustion😱
mridulachakraborty.🇮🇳@mridula2c
Lest we forget- the exodus had begun - Nobody walked, nobody died, no data.
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@RemaNagarajan The concept of 'regulation' does not exist in any field. Where it does exist it is open to manipulation and subversion -- starting with the Constitution
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Even the existing medical colleges are plagued with substandard regulation, severe faculty shortage and inadequate patient load, and talking about setting up more medical colleges as if they are the answer to all problems plaguing the health sector🙄🙄
Teena Thacker@Teensthack
“Our government plans to set up more medical colleges by utilizing the existing hospital infrastructure, under various departments. A committee for this purpose will be set up to examine the issues and make relevant recommendations” @nsitharaman @EconomicTimes #Budget2024
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@UnamPillai @EeAnjana The Nawab of Arcot continues to receive a pension of 1.5 lakhs per annum from the government of India plus use of the HH title. Abolition of privy purse does not apply to him.
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@EeAnjana She annulled arrangements arrived at by the independent Indian govt in 1949 and after. Legal obligations inherited from the earlier Company regime etc are still maintained, and the Zamorins fall in this category.
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The Zamorin is one of those rare entities in modern India who--with his family--receives even now a political pension, settled when their territories were taken by the British. 800+ members meant that junior individuals got 12 rupees or so each until a few years ago. Now raised.
William Dalrymple@DalrympleWill
With the 98 year old Zamorin of Calicut whose family, bombarded by Vasco da Gama in May 1498, were some of the first victims of European colonialism... @EmpirePodUK
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@AnumitaRoychowd Municipal Solid Waste continues to be burned in four WtE plants at the rate of 7,000 tonnes per day using mass burn technology in 'moving grate' boilers which need close real time monitoring.
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@CBhattacharji @JasjeevGandhiok If you incinerate 7,000 tonnes of unsegregated municipal solid waste daily and ignore that as a source of pollution there is obviously a problem. IIT studies have already shown 30 percent of pollution to be chlorine compounds from the burning of plastic.
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Ranjit Devraj retweetledi
Why is the government funding air polluters of Delhi? Power Finance Corporation of India, an Indian financial institution under the ownership of the Government of India, lent Rs. 135 crores to the Okhla WTE in 2019. #CannotBreatheInDelhi #StopFundingWTE
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With the approaching winter season, the national capital gets engulfed in dense fog that negatively impacts the air and surface transport resulting in huge financial losses and jeopardises human lives. Waste burning adds significantly to this. #CantBreatheInDelhi #NoBurn
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IIT Madras confirms waste burning is the single biggest contributor to smog, haze etc in Delhi. #CannotBreatheInDelhi #12YearsLost #NoBurn ndtv.com/education/delh…
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Delhi is generating 14,100 metric tonnes of mixed waste every day, and improper management of the waste by dumping in landfills or burning in incinerators have had a huge toll on Delhi's air pollution. #CannotBreatheInDelhi #NoBurn
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@Empress_Nandini Rewarding the polluter rather than making him pay
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Welcome To India!
For causing air pollution, the National Green Tribunal slapped a fine of Rs. 25 lakhs on the Okhla Waste to energy plant in Delhi in 2017 for releasing 800-900% more dioxins and furans, and other emissions. #CannotBreatheInDelhi #BreathlessInDelhi #NoBurn
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