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A World Bank report that documents, road accidents have claimed 1.3 million Indians and injured more than five million in the last decade. By Akash V Basu & Sarika Panda Bhatt
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“If you can learn to drive in India, you can drive pretty much anywhere in the world.” That statement is commonly used to describe just how skilled a person needs to be to drive in this country & reflects just how dangerous Indian roads are perceived to be
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With the high number of accidents, drunk-driving and wrong side driving incidents, motorists risk their lives unless they drive with complete focus. scroll.in/a/1021173
Now, imagine being a pedestrian on such roads.
By Akash V Basu & Sarika Panda Bhatt
Now, imagine being a pedestrian on such roads.
By Akash V Basu & Sarika Panda Bhatt
Ukraine, state taxes and electric vehicles: How BJP is defending sky-high fuel prices
Critics, though, point to Central taxes being the major factor behind the #FuelPriceHike
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By @UmangPod
Critics, though, point to Central taxes being the major factor behind the #FuelPriceHike
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By @UmangPod
Critics often complain that the Centre only increases and never reduces domestic prices based on international prices.
For instance, while Int'l oil prices plummeted during the pandemic, oil prices in India remained the same as the govt increased excise. scroll.in/article/1020972
For instance, while Int'l oil prices plummeted during the pandemic, oil prices in India remained the same as the govt increased excise. scroll.in/article/1020972
The BJP and its supporters have attempted to manage the political fallout of this steep rise by offering a host of excuses for why #FuelPrices are shooting up.
@UmangPod looks into some of those excuses and what experts and opposition have to say. scroll.in/article/1020972
@UmangPod looks into some of those excuses and what experts and opposition have to say. scroll.in/article/1020972
Scroll.in’s @AarefaJohari wins Chameli Devi Jain Award
Since 1981, the award has been recognising women journalists who have upheld standards of excellence in journalism through a sustained body of work.
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Since 1981, the award has been recognising women journalists who have upheld standards of excellence in journalism through a sustained body of work.
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@AarefaJohari .@AarefaJohari's work “shone through with its combination of meticulous reportage, humanism and empathy, all reflecting a high order of journalistic excellence”, a three-member jury in a statement said scroll.in/latest/1021054
Harish Khare, chair of the Media Foundation, said that @AarefaJohari's reportage is an “outstanding example of a journalist’s everyday privilege to help society demand fairness and justness”.
If you wish to read the author's work, visit scroll.in/author/352
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With relatively little research available on the impact of #AirPollution on women’s reproductive health, or the different ways in which men and women are exposed, the issue has mostly slipped under their radar.
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By @dishashetty20
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By @dishashetty20
#AirPollution | Evidence is clear that air pollution is linked to higher rates of miscarriages, pregnancy complications and stillbirths, affecting women’s reproductive health. scroll.in/article/1020952
By @dishashetty20
By @dishashetty20
#Pollution levels are significantly higher in much of the developing world. scroll.in/article/1020952
It is worst in South Asia, where in 2021, 18 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities were spread across the Indo-Gangetic plain in India and Pakistan.
By @dishashetty20
It is worst in South Asia, where in 2021, 18 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities were spread across the Indo-Gangetic plain in India and Pakistan.
By @dishashetty20
#AssemblyElections2022 | India's employment rate is so bad, it is even lower than Pakistan's. Yet paradoxically elections are being fought on identity, not jobs.scroll.in/article/101627…
#TheIndiaFix by @ShoaibDaniyal
#TheIndiaFix by @ShoaibDaniyal
This week on #TheIndiaFix - A newsletter on Indian politics by @ShoaibDaniyal
Job riots in UP, Bihar bring home the urgency of India’s unemployment crisis scroll.in/article/101627…
Job riots in UP, Bihar bring home the urgency of India’s unemployment crisis scroll.in/article/101627…
#TheIndiaFix | Violence over identity and religion is something Indians are (unfortunately) used to. But on Tuesday, the country saw something rarer: riots over jobs.
This week, @ShoaibDaniyal writes on the unemployment crisis in India scroll.in/article/101627…
This week, @ShoaibDaniyal writes on the unemployment crisis in India scroll.in/article/101627…
Why is it that in 2022, plans are afoot to undo five decades of work protecting elephants by legitimising illegal networks of elephant trade?
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By Alok Hisarwala
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By Alok Hisarwala
Joymala is among the more than 320 such elephants on record – the actual number is much higher – who have been illegally traded through leases from Assam to South Indian temples, with no plans for their return.
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On December 17, the Wildlife Protection Amendment Bill, 2021, was tabled in Parliament. Clause 27 of the Bill proposes to permit the commercial trade of elephants. This would legalise it for the first time in 50 years. scroll.in/article/1016272
