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1 month ago | 
citizenmatters.in | Laasya Shekhar |Shobana Radhakrishnan |Harshitha Padmavinod
Chennai witnessed an unprecedented environmental disaster this year, as more than 1,000 dead Olive Ridley turtles washed ashore in January. The mass mortality event has put the Forest and Fisheries Departments, along with voluntary organisations, on high alert, prompting collaborative efforts to strengthen Olive Ridley turtle conservation.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
citizenmatters.in | Shruti Gokarn |Prachi Pinglay-Plumber |Harshitha Padmavinod
One of the most important goals under NEP 2020 is to achieve universal foundational literacy and numeracy in primary schools by the year 2025. The Ministry of Education started the National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN) Bharat in July 2021. The goal is to enable children to attain basic foundational skills by the time they reach Class III. The Ministry aims to achieve this by 2026-27.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
citizenmatters.in | Shobana Radhakrishnan |Shruti Gokarn |Harshitha Padmavinod |a Bachelors
This year has seen a scorching and extended summer all across the country. Tamil Nadu has been no different with the state capital, Chennai, recording 40.7 degrees Celsius in the peak of summer. As temperatures soared, the Greater Chennai Corporation issued an advisory, asking people not to step out of their homes between noon and 3 pm, and to cover their heads to protect themselves from the unbearable heat.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
citizenmatters.in | Shruti Gokarn |Harshitha Padmavinod
Both the Thane and Kalyan constituencies have been bagged by the Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde led faction) in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The two MPs who have been elected from Thane and Kalyan are Naresh Mhaske and Dr. Shrikant Shinde respectively. Here is comprehensive information about them.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
citizenmatters.in | Harshitha Padmavinod |Shruti Gokarn |Shobana Radhakrishnan
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured a victory in all four Parliamentary Constituencies in Bengaluru in the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. PC Mohan, Shobha Karandlaje, Tejasvi Surya and Dr. CN Manjunath are the BJP MPs from Bengaluru. Here is comprehensive information about them:Shobha Kharandlaje (BJP) defeated M V Rajeev Gowda from Indian National Congress (INC) and won the seat by 56.3% of votes.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
citizenmatters.in | Gautam Kumar |Ashutosh Tripathi |Sakthivel Narayanan P |Harshitha Padmavinod
The general election to elect the 18th Lok Sabha has just been concluded in the country. In electoral politics, public speeches, meetings, rallies, road shows and manifestos form an integral part of any political party’s campaign to convince and lure voters to elect them. Over the past few months, too, hundreds and thousands of such activities were organised by all parties in these elections. Sadly, environment got the short shrift in all of this.
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
citizenmatters.in | Harshitha Padmavinod |Shruti Gokarn
(Part 1 of this series summarised the increase in power demand due to soaring temperatures. Part 2 is a round up of power outages across the country and possible solutions to the problem)High demand for power in the Kalwa circuit of Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Co. Ltd. (Mahatransco), primarily due to the scorching heat, led to overloading and a disruption of electricity supply for up to two hours in April.
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May 31, 2024 | 
citizenmatters.in | Shobana Radhakrishnan |Sravasti Datta |Harshitha Padmavinod |a Bachelors
The devastation that hit the coastal parts of Tamil Nadu and Chennai during the December 2023 floods still haunts the people affected here. Just five months later, the city is already staring at a potential water shortage. Reservoirs serve as the main source of water supply to Chennai residents. However, Veeranam Lake reached dead storage on February 28th due to a lack of inflow from the Mettur dam.
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May 28, 2024 | 
citizenmatters.in | Harshitha Padmavinod |Satendra Singh |Gunjit Verma
India has seen the worst of summer this year, with temperatures breaking records in many parts of the country. Among various other impacts, high temperatures have also caused a surge in power demand in cities. This has not only created issues in terms of frequent power outages, but has also increased carbon emissions as the demands are met.
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May 23, 2024 | 
citizenmatters.in | Harshitha Padmavinod |Shruti Gokarn |Ashni Tyagi |Vijaya Pushkarna
Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha constituency is one of the seven Lok Sabha constituencies in the Indian National Capital Territory of Delhi. This constituency came into existence in 1956. It is the smallest constituency of Lok Sabha in terms of area. Since the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies in 2008, it is made up of ten assembly constituencies, which are Adarsh Nagar, Shalimar Bagh, Shakur Basti, Tri Nagar, Wazirpur, Model Town, Sadar Bazar, Chandni Chowk, Matia Mahal and Ballimaran.
