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 Agriculture & Environment

Following the Bharatiya Janata Party's success in the Delhi Assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed deep concern over the deteriorating condition of the Yamuna River. He has decided to prioritize a major river cleaning and purification program. This has sparked new hope among residents of the Braj region, including Agra, Mathura, and Vrindavan. 

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A house’s carbon footprint decreases more than 1kg in carbon dioxide equivalent for every euro invested in sustainable building materials, finds new research from Université Libre de Bruxelles and Corvinus University of Budapest. The largest impact comes from investing in sustainable windows and external walls.

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The Yamuna is now dry, polluted, and diseased. Most city residents are unaware of the significance and contributions of Mother Yamuna. Even Nazir Akbarabadi would be heartbroken to see the Yamuna’s plight. Emperor Shah Jahan would surely be devastated by the river’s current state!

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Hariman Sharma, a visionary farmer from Himachal Pradesh, has been honoured with Padma Shri for his transformative contribution to Indian agriculture.  He developed an innovative, self-pollinating, low-chilling apple variety called HRMN–99, that has revolutionized the apple cultivation landscape in the country and brought a juicy nutritive variety more within reach in terms of geography and affordability. 

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Illegal colonies have encroached on the banks of the Yamuna. Poachers have killed the peacocks, colonisers have chopped trees. Instead of flutes, there are cheap deafening songs, houses coming up on kunds, and luxurious ashrams on forest land. Cement tiles replace sacred Brij soil. The land of Lord Krishna’s Lila is groaning under the burden of modernity.

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Preetam Singh, a farmer from Panipat of Haryana, like many others, had raised concerns about the harmful effects of pesticides.

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