Scientists have often framed climate change in terms of the future; but for many people, that watery future is already here, reports Orb Media In the morning, before she left for work, Ambika Thankappan called her son Arun to tell him their world was about to drown. “It’s already flooded …
Read More »Monthly Archives: October 2018
City ready for Navaratri festivities
Coastal economic hub Mangaluru is spruced up to celebrate Navaratri or Dasara with the main roads and important buildings illuminated with colourful lights even as Mangaladevi Temple and Kudroli Gokarnanatha Temple are gearing up to celebrate the festival. The celebrations at Mangaladevi would commence with prayers to Lord Ganapati and …
Read More »SC refuses urgent listing of Sabarimala review pleas
Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Tuesday rejected an oral plea for urgent listing of review petitions filed against the September 28 judgment allowing women of all ages entry into the famed Sabarimala temple even as Kerala is yet to come to terms with the verdict. The Chief Justice …
Read More »A Lantern Lecture.
Under the auspices of the Madras Publicity Board Mr. Young Necker delivered an interesting lecture on the “War” in the Y.M.C.A. Hall last evening [October 8]. Mr. Justice Kumaraswamy Sastry presided. The lecturer traced the development of the German Empire down to the commencement of the present war and said …
Read More »The Influenza Epidemic.
Influenza appears to have broken out in parts of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. It is much regretted that this should have come when plague is still virulent and more or less widespread. At Bombay, it is hoped that the corner has been turned with the terrible second influenza epidemic that has …
Read More »Estimating India’s population
Researchers find that education levels are an important factor in projecting a country’s population Sometime in 2017, the UN released projections on India’s population. It said that the population would peak at around 1.675 billion people in the 2056-2066 period, and then decline slowly. However, these projections may have been …
Read More »Arise and a-woke
Corporates should be virtue warriors and earn the admiration of customers Though the wheels of justice moved slowly and it took more than 150 years to decriminalise homosexuality in India, the Internet dispenses instant justice, as illustrated by the case of a former employee of IT major Tech Mahindra. That …
Read More »Hard justice
With Brett Kavanaugh confirmed, Republicans enjoy great power to shape the U.S. agenda The U.S. Senate has confirmed the nomination of conservative-leaning judge Brett Kavanaugh, by a vote of 50-48, and he was sworn in as a ninth justice of the Supreme Court (SCOTUS). The narrow victory of the second …
Read More »Five States
This round of polls has more than one thread; using them to spin a forecast for 2019 is risky As five States go to the polls with just months left for the Lok Sabha election, the temptation to read the results as pointers will be great. What makes the contest …
Read More »Time to avoid phrases that mock disabilities
We must stop the casual use of terms like‘turning a blind eye’ and ‘paralysed economy’ In our day-to-day interactions, we come across words and phrases like ‘turning a blind eye’; ‘falling on deaf ears’; ‘a paralysed economy’; ‘institutions running on crutches’; and ‘mute leadership’. What is common among these is …
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