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Air pollution at record levels as firecracker ban on Diwali fails across north India
November 5, 2021
The biggest Indian festival of the year, Diwali, known in some places as Deepavali, is celebrated twenty days after Dussehra, and symbolises the spiritual victory of light over darkness and good over evil. During the festival, devotees usually pray to beautiful murtis of Lakshmi,...
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COP26 headed to failure despite carbon to coal commitments
November 4, 2021
Even before the latest climate change summit, COP26, began at Glasgow earlier this year, there were more than enough warnings and definitely more than adequate evidence that the world had already turn out of time in meeting the climate change threat head on and that the Glasgow s...
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Ghazipur flower market blooms again
November 3, 2021
As one enters the Ghazipur flower market one can only see heaps of colourful flowers spread across the entire market, sprawled on over 15 acres of land and considered to be the biggest flower market in India. Rose, lily, mogra, marigold, orchid, chrysanthemum, rajnigandha — you...
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Festival season brings cheer to theatre owners as screenings resume
November 3, 2021
When the Covid-19 pandemic struck India in early 2020, the cinema industry was the first to feel the heat as theatres were ordered closed all over the country even before the lockdown was announced on March 25, 2020. After a closure of eight months, last year they reopened briefl...
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Parumala Perunnal: Homage to India’s first canonised saint
November 2, 2021
Parumala is a hamlet and island on the Pampa River in Thiruvalla, Pathanamthitta district in Kerala. The grand annual Parumala Perunnal festival takes places at Parumala St Peter’s & St Paul’s Orthodox Church. Geevargese Mar Gregorios established the church and he...
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Unique cycle rally to rebuild bridges with Bangladesh
November 1, 2021
As Bangladesh celebrates the 50th anniversary of its independence, and its unique friendship with India, which helped the country obtain the independence, it would have been normal to expect a series of news reports about the celebrations marking the Indo-Bangladesh friendship an...
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Skateboarding: India’s rare rural skate park
October 31, 2021
Skateboard is a sport that originated in California, United States, in the late 1940s. It is primarily a city sport which is played in skate parks and the bumps are the important accessories to allow the skateboarders show off their skills. In a country like India, especially in ...
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Fatal floods, the new normal as India ignores global warming signs
October 31, 2021
In 2017, a study led by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) reported that from 1950 to 2015, there has been a three-fold increase in widespread extreme precipitation events in India, with extreme flooding affecting about 825 million people, leaving 17 million home...
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World Thrift Day: Global savings surge in pandemic
October 30, 2021
The United States, the country that invented credit cards and is famous for practically everyone living off credit and out-of-pocket, has seen a record jump in its personal savings rate during the pandemic, which raced ahead to 13.7 pc in 2020 from 7.6 pc in the preceding year. N...
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High energy prices could derail COP26
October 29, 2021
A report by the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, released barely a week before the opening of COP26, the global climate change summit in Glasgow that begins tomorrow, says that the commitments made so far by different countries to cut carbon emissions by 2030 are far s...
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After Dabur, Sabyasachi receives flak from rightwing troll police
October 28, 2021
Designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s latest ad campaign to promote his luxury mangalsutra collection has triggered a social media turmoil as the ad features heterosexual and same-sex couples posing for pictures wearing his newly launched ‘Royal Bengal Mangalsutra’. T...
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Shekhawati: World’s largest open air art gallery
October 27, 2021
Shekhawati, around 100 km from Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, is one of the lesser explored regions of the state even though the region boasts of numerous majestic havelis (mansions) and is widely appreciated for its numerous murals that adorn on havelis. With towns like Sikar...
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