19 October 2021
The human and economic costs of road accidents: India loses 1.5 lakh lives due to road accidents every year; road accidents are not only a public health issue but an economic one; The country loses $58 billion, or 3 percent of its GDP, every year due to road traffic crashes
Racial profiling in Arunachal Pradesh: The Chakma Development Foundation of India (CDFI) on Monday urged Arunachal Deputy CM’s intervention against racial profiling in Arunachal Pradesh; The organisation reiterated that the Chakmas are citizens of India, although their applications have not been processed in the last 25 years in contempt of Supreme Court judgments
Lack of Dalits in the judiciary: Top upper caste judges in India ‘biased’ against Dalit colleagues; in the 71-year history of the Indian Republic, only six Dalit judges have been appointed to the Supreme Court
Climate change: Cloudburst in Uttarakhand leads to floods; death toll rises to 16; Nainital cut off from state
Coal shortages ease: The coal stock situation at thermal power projects improved as projects having less than four days of coal reduced to 61 on Sunday from 70 a week ago