#Muslim voters in #India feel targeted more and more by the ruling party and Prime Minister #Modi with hate speeches. There have been reports of Muslim voters' names being removed from the voting list and in one village in #UttarPradesh, they were even beaten up. But no action has been taken by the #Election Commission of India against these complaints prompting activists to launch a campaign against it. Navodita Kumari reports.
@mastodonindians - Shiva Sena has been an important factor in NDA's rise in MMR. But BJP seem to have narrowed its gap with Sena since 2012.
If NDA gets even 40% of Sena-NCP votes, it is likely to win 7 seats. For MVA, even getting 70% of Sena-NCP votes is likely to only bring 3 MMR seats. (3/4)
@mastodonindians *Note: ENOP is the reciprocal of the sum of squares of vote share of candidates in a constituency, and a higher number suggests that more candidates are in the fray. The median PC-wise ENOP in MMR stood at 3.4, 2.6, and 2.2 in 2009, 2014 and 2019 respectively. (4/4)
"A brutal #heatwave swept swathes of northwest #India on Friday, with maximum temperatures soaring to a scorching 47.4 degrees Celsius in southwest #Delhi's Najafgarh, making it the warmest place in the country."
"According to a recent survey by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and CVoter International, a staggering 91% of Indians are worried about #GlobalWarming, and an impressive 86% support the government’s ‘Net Zero’ commitment to reduce #India’s carbon pollution to nearly zero by 2070."
Election season is underway in scorching temperatures but in spite of repeated extreme climate scenes, voters still don't demand climate accountability
#Heatwaves have long been known to impact children's learning. But the intensity & duration with which they strike now are leading to much greater cumulative impacts
#ClimateChange is directly causing educational gaps worth years across the world
For policy makers who care about GDP than #education, what happens to the economy when your workforce cant keep up?
This is as true in the west as in the #GlobalSouth
"As the county on Friday experienced searing temperatures, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) #Punjab issued an alert for #heatwave, #rains, and #storms expected this month."
Yup, thats THREE 'natural disasters' expected in the province this month.
Let that not distract you from the main headline - #schools will be closed because of them.
This is an interesting chart and show how abysmally low the healthcare spending in #India is. Compare it with an equally populous state like #China and one can clearly see how the political systems and ideology impacts the #healthcare spending.
From an article in #TheHindu
Central to this verdict was the Court’s decision to lift a ban on overhead power lines spanning 99,000 square kilometres in parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan. The ban aimed to protect these endangered birds but was deemed counterproductive to India’s transition to clean energy, particularly wind and solar power, which is crucial for global climate action and fulfilling the energy needs of Indian citizens