4 July 2021
Uttarakhand gets 3rd Chief Minister in 4 months: BJP’s Pushkar Singh Dhami ousts BJP’s Tirath Singh Rawat
The number of deaths due to electrocution in India has nearly doubled from 6,336 in 2003 to 13,432 in 2019
India’s largest coal power generation company NTPC plans Rs 2.5 lakh crore investment on renewable energy; NTPC recently doubled its renewable power capacity addition target from 30 to 60 GW 2032
While 30% of India’s adult population has been vaccinated for Covid once, only 6.7% have both doses; massive discrepancies across states; India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh is at the bottom of the list
Flashback: in Jan 2017, Government of India’s think tank NITI Aayog headed by Prime Minister Modi had said that cards, ATMs, POS will be redundant by 2020 in India