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Maneka contradicts Modi, says Chennai flood is because ‘India is destroying climate’
Posted by First Post: None Given on December 3rd, 2015
First Post: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the ‘not our fault’ high ground when the world’s top three carbon culprits met in Paris but back home his own party’s top minister is taking a different line.
Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi, well known for her commitment to the green cause, said today in an interview to NDTV that India is a major culprit whose actions on climate have led to the Chennai floods
Within one week of the Parliament’s winter session starting in New Delhi,...
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India: How climate change worries have affected mental health of Sunderbans residents
Posted by First Post: None Given on August 25th, 2013
First Post: A number of environmental threats including that of climate change and man-animal conflict are driving villagers in Sunderbans islands towards madness and even suicide. Putting stress on the mental health of the villagers, the ill-effects of abject poverty and deprivation in the remote islands of the UNESCO World Heritage site are compounded by acute struggle against ecological hazards, experts say. Psychiatrist Arabinda N Chowdhury, who worked with the Institute of Psychiatry in Kolkata, studied...