The National Disaster Management Authority’s recent high-level session on ‘Earthquake Risk Reduction’ featured PK Mishra, the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, and his book on lessons from the 2001 Kutch earthquake. Excerpts from the 2005 book documenting the impact of the earthquake on information flow, the problems of restoring infrastructure, and the shortage of trained engineers and masons have all been noted as pertinent concerns to date.
Charging Opponent Repeatedly With Sorcery
Just days before Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in, then-chief minister Eknath Shinde, who was ‘sick’, travelled to his hometown of Daregaon, Satara. While there was talk that Shinde was upset and headed back to his hometown. The Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray faction of Sena said there was another reason. Aaditya Thackeray and other UBT leaders said that Shinde has been known to visit Daregaon during Amavasya. Their insinuation was that Shinde was engaging in sorcery to secure his position as chief minister. Shinde has been the target of UBT accusations of black magic in the past.
MP’s Working, You Heard it Right
Thoothukudi is home to the first-ever Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Programme in India, thanks to DMK MP Kanimozhi. This program will provide the area’s youngest residents the chance to hear at birth, guaranteeing them a future free of hearing loss. Government hospitals in Thoothukudi, Tiruchendur, and Kovilpatti are launching the trial programme.
