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2 months ago | newslaundry.com | Anant Prakash |India Spend

As Punjab reaps financial gains, it also drains its aquifers. In Sangrur, Barnala, and Patiala, the water table has been dropping by a metre a year since 1998. Harwant Singh Aulakh, a farmer in his late sixties, grows basmati rice near Amritsar, just as his father and grandfather did before him. Amir Ghafourimanesh, a commodities importer in Tehran, Iran eats basmati rice leisurely as his father and grandfather do. One produces, the other consumes - both connected by a grain that thrives on water.

Feb 16, 2025 | newslaundry.com | Manu Moudgil |India Spend

Studies show that extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent due to changing climate, increase durations of power outage. A power line with lightning flashing behind it. Raghunadh was 15 when Cyclone Hudhud struck the coastline near his home at Bheemunipatnam, around 30 km from Visakhapatnam in coastal Andhra Pradesh on October 12, 2014.

Feb 9, 2025 | newslaundry.com | Prachi Salve |India Spend

Despite steady growth in women's enrollment in higher education in India, a disparity persists between engineering and technology-related courses and other disciplines. Between 2013-14 and 2021-22, female enrolment in undergraduate courses has increased by 46 percent, and by 55.5 percent in postgraduate courses. But enrolment in engineering degrees has fallen by 1.35 percent for undergraduate courses and by 43 percent for postgraduate courses, government data shows.

Jan 11, 2025 | eastmojo.com | India Spend

Australia's 2019-20 bushfires produced recommendations on how to reduce riskCSIROCredits CC 3.0 (File photo) Mount Abu, Rajasthan: Bhagetu, a tiny village in Hamirpur district, Himachal Pradesh, saw one death during the summer of 2024, the season when forests in India are most vulnerable to fires. A 75-year-old woman was caught in a blaze while tending to her fields. The district as a whole reported 239 outbreaks of fire in 2024.