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RT @NitiCentral: #Yamuna water crosses danger mark, flood threat over #Delhi niticentral.com/2013/06/19/yam…
Yamuna water crosses danger mark, flood threat over Delhi
niticentral.com — Incessant rains over the last few days in the national capital has raised the water level in Yamuna above the danger mark. The Haryana State alone released over nine lakh cusecs of water as a result of the heavy shower in the last couple of days.
Must read: Grim stats show gross exploitation of brick makers fuels construction boom. - thehindu.com/opinion/lead/b…
Building blocks of servitude
thehindu.com — Urban growth has been central to the remarkable growth rates that we have achieved over the last three decades. Especially since the 1990s, when structural adjustment policies were introduced, markets and private capitalist ventures have significantly driven our urban growth process.
I like HT's Campus Journalists feature, but it highlights the need for student-run campus dailies. Best way to learn the trade.
China's urbanization plan could cause permanent underclass in big cities. Follow the leader? - nytimes.com/2013/06/16/wor…
China’s Great Uprooting - Moving 250 Million Into Cities - NYTimes.com
nytimes.com — BEIJING - China is pushing ahead with a sweeping plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and cities over the next dozen years - a transformative event that could set off a new wave of growth or saddle the country with problems for generations to come.
@GlobalPost they found Nirmal Ghosh.
Best description of Star Wars ever. youtube.com/watch?v=Cg-pnG…
Star Wars Described by a Non Fan
youtube.com — The Thick of It's Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) trying to describe Star Wars in series 4 episode 2.
@gk003e Nothing against cows, just against them eating a steady diet of plastic bags.
Tuborg: It's a bad idea to make Strong the same color as Mild. Though you make the only relatively palatable Strong Beer.
@gk003e The Himalayas are most definitely world class. So is Hampi.
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