Posts

Showing posts with the label karnataka

SC quashes plea seeking mechanism to deal with misuse of sedition law

Image
SC quashes plea seeking mechanism to deal with misuse of sedition law A bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar dismissed the plea filed by a social activist and said it was open for the petitioner to approach the appropriate authority. SC refuses to entertain plea to deal Current Affairs :The Supreme Court on Friday wouldn’t engage a request looking for confining of an appropriate instrument to manage claimed abuse of the dissidence law by the administration apparatus. A seat headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar expelled the request documented by a social dissident and said it was open for the candidate to move toward the proper power. At the start, the peak court told advocate Utsav Singh Bains, showing up for the applicant, that he was unable to look for subduing of a FIR in a dissidence body of evidence documented against the administration of a Karnataka school for purportedly permitting understudies to organize an enemy of CAA and hostile to NRC dramatization. Bains t...

Monsoon mayhem: Nearly 1,900 dead in rains, floods across the nation

Image
Monsoon mayhem: Nearly 1,900 dead in rains, floods across the nation Twenty-two districts in Gujarat were hit during the monsoon season Current Affairs  :- About 1,900 individuals lost their lives and another 46 were accounted for missing this rainstorm season in downpours and floods which influenced in excess of 25 lakh in 22 states, Union Home Ministry authorities said on Friday. The most noteworthy 382 individuals kicked the bucket in Maharashtra, trailed by 227 passings in West Bengal in downpours, floods and avalanches that hit upwards of 357 locale in the nation. As indicated by the authorities, 738 individuals were harmed and almost 20,000 creatures were lost. The overwhelming downpours and floods completely harmed 1.09 lakh houses, mostly harmed 2.05 lakh houses and annihilated 14.14 lakh hectares of yields. An aggregate of 1,874 individuals kicked the bucket, an authority said. In spite of the fact that storm stays dynamic in a couple of parts of the na...

Cycle of extremes: Erratic monsoon hits crops in Karnataka’s Kaveri basin

Image
Cycle of extremes: Erratic monsoon hits crops in Karnataka’s Kaveri basin The rainfall anomaly in the Kaveri basin is part of a larger trend where climate change results in spells of torrential rain interspersed with unusually dry periods Current Affairs  :- Sporadic precipitation this storm harmed 25 percent of the kharif (summer) crops planted in the regions along the Kaveri stream bowl of southern and inside Karnataka, as per a neighborhood rancher’s system. The ranchers here had deferred the planting of these yields to August since June and July, customary planting months, had detailed inadequate precipitation. Yet, heavy rains in August demolished a fourth of the harvests, both youthful and develop. The southern territories of the Kaveri bowl detailed a 28 percent precipitation inadequacy and focal zones 22 percent, as per the India Meteorological Department (IMD). Be that as it may, August recorded a 102 percent “huge overabundance”. “The measure of precipitat...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah undertook an aerial survey of the flood-affected areas of Karnataka and Maharashtra

Image
Union Home Minister Amit Shah undertook an aerial survey of the flood-affected areas of Karnataka and Maharashtra C urrent Affairs :- The loss of life in Kerala floods mounted to 72 even as downpours decreased on Sunday in the wake of beating the state for a considerable length of time, while the circumstance stayed horrid in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat where 97 individuals have lost their lives so far because of the rainstorm fierceness. All waterways are in spate in Karnataka where the UNESCO world legacy site in Hampi, on the banks of the Tungabhadra River in Ballari area, has been immersed after over 1.70 lakh cusec water was discharged from a store on Sunday morning. Voyagers in Hampi have been moved to more secure spots, authorities said. The uncommon downpour since a week ago has left 31 individuals dead and dislodged four lakh individuals in 80 taluks of 17 locale in Karnataka. Association Home Minister Amit Shah attempted an ethereal overview of the flood-inf...