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From cyclones to floods, 2019 was a year of record extreme weather events As this year draws to a close, we take a look at the extreme weather events that hit India in 2019 and their impacts. Current Affairs :The year 2019 saw record extraordinary climate occasions activated by environmental change- – this July was the most sizzling July at any point recorded, the late spring storm saw 74% increasingly outrageous precipitation occasions, woodland fires were 113% progressively various year-on-year and seven typhoons hit the nation. These extraordinary climate occasions dislodged about 2.17 million individuals in the initial a half year of 2019. These figures will undoubtedly ascend as the relocations from tornados and floods in the later 50% of the year are incorporated. With generally number of passings because of extraordinary climate occasions, India was additionally viewed as the fifth generally helpless of 181 nations with the impacts of environmental change, IndiaSp...

Kerala floods: Rahul writes to RBI Governor Das, seeks relief for farmers Kerala has witnessed the worst floods in over a century C urrent Affairs :- Congress pioneer Rahul Gandhi has kept in touch with RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, asking that the ban on reimbursement of harvest credits be stretched out to December 31 for ranchers in Kerala in the wake of floods in the state. The loss of life in the Kerala floods is 95, according to government figures, and over 1.89 lakh individuals uprooted by the storm since August 8 have taken asylum in 1,118 camps, some of which were visited by Gandhi, the Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad, on Monday. In a letter to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) representative, Gandhi said Kerala has seen the most noticeably terrible floods in over a century and the staggering effect of the storm is additionally intensified by the powerlessness of ranchers to reimburse farming credits by virtue of across the board crop misfortune, and broad harm to other ...

Melting Himalayan glaciers: What’s at stake and how it will impact us Global warming is reducing our resources, and making life more perilous along the way. The rivers of the Himalayas are just one more example. Another report has cautioned that regardless of whether an unnatural weather change is held at 1.5 degrees Celsius, we will, in any case, lose 33% of the ice sheets in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) area. I don’t get that’s meaning for waterways that stream down these mountains, and the general population who rely upon them? The HKH district is home to the tallest mountains on Earth, and furthermore to the wellspring of streams that continue near 2 billion individuals. These waterways supply farming with water and with dregs that prepare soils in valleys and the floodplain. A portion of these streams are gigantically socially noteworthy. The Ganges (or Ganga), for example, which streams for more than 2,525km from the western  Himalayas  into the Bay of B...