Why India witnessed extreme weather in 88% of days in the last nine months

By Shankar Sharma*
More and more reports about multiple evidences on the fast escalating consequences of global warming/ climate change are appearing in the global media. A recent report from CSE on India, as in the link below, should be of huge concern to our authorities. If 88% of the days in 9 months have witnessed extreme weather, it should be a matter of great concern for our people. The associated concerns can only escalate massively if the present trend of our authorities to persist with BAU scenario continues.
Few associated news articles/reports, as in the news links below, should be of huge relevance to our authorities, if they really care for the welfare of our people, and if they are also wise enough to learn from the experiences from around the world.
Let us hope that the PM's sermons about the true relevance of roof top solar PV systems, solar villages, solar pump sets, additional revenue to our farmers, VISHWA GURU etc will not be just a part of rhetoric slogans.

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*Power & Climate Policy Analyst

Right to walk, right to livelihood: Clearing footpaths 'can't mean' clearing out the urban poor

By Aseem Mishra* India’s cities are locked in a quiet but intensifying struggle over one of their most contested public spaces: the footpath. For pedestrians, a footpath is basic infrastructure—a strip of ground that should allow people to move safely, independently and with dignity. For millions of informal workers, the same stretch of pavement is a workplace, a source of daily income and often the difference between survival and destitution.

Ample evidence of child labour in South Gujarat's cash rich sugarcane belt: Study

By Rajiv Shah A recent German government-funded study , undertaken jointly by the NGO Prayas Centre for Labour Research and Action and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, which mainly deals examines the working conditions of migrant workers in the cash-rich sugarcane zone of South Gujarat, has gone a long way to suggest large scale prevalence of child labour during the harvesting season.

Women lawyers petition Supreme Court, seek reconsideration of Aug 4 order on bar council co-option

By A Representative A group of women advocates who stood sixth and seventh among female candidates in the recent Bar Council elections have filed a petition before the Supreme Court, seeking a recall and reconsideration of the Court’s August 4 order determining the mechanism for co-opting women into State Bar Councils.

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