While preparations for Durga Puja 2024 are underway in Kolkata, the usual excitement in people seems subdued amid 'We Want Justice' slogans resonating across the city, questioning the relevance of worshipping the maternal energy where women in real life have no safety.
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An editorial hand ardently interested in covering a wide array of national and international news. Apart from covering daily news, writing comprehensive articles on important events is my strong suit. Besides regular news coverage, I particularly take interest in developments in the fields of climate change and sustainability studies.
About The Author
An editorial hand ardently interested in covering a wide array of national and international news. Apart from covering daily news, writing comprehensive articles on important events is my strong suit. Besides regular news coverage, I particularly take interest in developments in the fields of climate change and sustainability studies.
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From scorching heatwaves during summer to extended monsoons, the weather patterns of the Indian subcontinent have been largely affected by the shifts in climate scenario. La Nina and El Nino, the intensity of the two opposite weather conditions are visibly increasing due to anthropogenic or man-made climate change events.
BY Jheelum Basu 24 September 2024
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Coming up with the clearest picture of the transitioning Thwaites glacier in Antarctica, scientists in the latest report said the situation is "grim", as they found the glacial retreat has accelerated considerably over the past 30 years and rapid ice loss is expected to speed up this century.
BY Jheelum Basu 20 September 2024
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From plant life growing in the arid region to catastrophic flooding in several other places in the continent- Africa's weather landscape is facing a major transition following an unusual shift of a storm zone.
BY Jheelum Basu 19 September 2024
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The new Covid-19 variant XEC, a sublineage of the Omicron variant, is a recombinant strain derived from the sub-variants KS.1.1 and KP.3.3. According to the experts, the variant carries genetic mutations responsible for enhanced transmissibility.
BY Jheelum Basu 18 September 2024
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From Cyanide Mallika to Jolly Joseph- in the past, bone-chilling crimes committed by women serial killers in India have sent us into a state of shock many times. The heinous, gruesome nature of the notorious crimes that emerged in India left the world petrified.
BY Jheelum Basu 7 September 2024
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Extended Monsoon: A Bane For Kharif Crops; Climate Change Behind Elongated Period Of Rains This Year
This year's extended monsoon brings trouble for the Kharif crops, also known as the monsoon crops, as a good yield of these crops depends on a well-timed retreat of the monsoon. An overhaul of agricultural planning is becoming extremely relevant with the exacerbating effects of climate change.
BY Jheelum Basu 6 September 2024
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The European Union donated the 1,00,000 doses of the JYNNEOS vaccine, manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic. While adequate mpox vaccine doses are available, high costs and regulatory hurdles according to experts have prevented the jabs from reaching the countries in central Africa.
BY Jheelum Basu 6 September 2024
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Bangladesh and India share the world's fifth-longest international border spanning across a stretch of 4,096-kilometer. Despite the friendly political and cultural relations between the two neighbouring countries, the border area for decades has been fraught with tension and violence.
BY Jheelum Basu 6 September 2024
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The December 24, 1999 incident brought the nation to a standstill as five masked terrorists hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC 814, en route to Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI), for a week following its departure from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport.
BY Jheelum Basu 29 August 2024
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