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In his prime, he was one of the first few actors in India to charge over a crore of rupees as his remuneration in a film. But at the same, he would do a film for free if he liked the script and the director.

Since 2019, Indian cities have become an integral part of the air quality management strategy in the country. The National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) and the Fifteenth Finance Commission (FC) brought policy attention, performance-linked funding, and a new expectation: that urban local governments (ULGs) would lead the fight against pollution. This shift has undoubtedly spurred action and created momentum, but as with all programmes, it has also revealed where the next set of challenges lie.

The catastrophic disaster in Nepal on 26 August has now acquired another, deeply worrying dimension. A rapid attribution analysis by World Weather Attribution, involving researchers from Imperial College London and institutions across several countries, describes the Langtang Lirungcollapse as a complex cascade of geological and climate-related processes.

We sing for Krishna while Yamuna dies at 70 BOD and 8.4 million fecal coliforms. It’s time to give his river the legal rights we already give corporations. On Janmashtami night, we will place a tiny Krishna in a tiny cradle. We will bathe him in milk, honey and Yamuna water brought in a can from a tanker because no one would dare dip that idol in the actual Yamuna at ITO. That is our hypocrisy in one image. We celebrate the river’s God and abandon the God’s river. Krishna was born on Yamuna’s bank.

“Sometimes the footpath is broken, sometimes vehicles come on it. We have to move between road and footpath. By the time I reach work, I am already exhausted” This is not just an isolated personal anecdote. This and the experiences of many other women is symptomatic of a systemic failure in the design, implementation, and governance of urban mobility, a failure that actively constrains women’s workforce participation in India’s cities.

Mr. Ranjan Panda, an internationally reputed water and climate expert, founded and mentors the Youth4Water campaign. Since March 2019, the campaign has connected young people to nature through unique initiatives driving grassroots climate action. Now, Mr. Panda has conceptualized a fresh campaign focusing exclusively on urban sustainability. The Big Wire caught up with “Odisha’s Water Man” to discuss the upcoming launch of the “My 500-Meter City” initiative.

When the first reports emerged of Indian men being lured into Russia’s war in Ukraine, they were treated as isolated incidents. A few job seekers had allegedly been cheated, a handful of families misled, and some unscrupulous agents had exploited desperate young men searching for work abroad. Two years later, that explanation no longer holds. The problem has not disappeared.

For more than a century, the architecture of the United States financial system rested upon a simple principle: access to the FederalReserve belonged primarily to banks. Every payment, settlement, and liquidity transaction ultimately flowed through commercial banking institutions acting as intermediaries between the public and the central bank.

Eavesdropping; a bad manner, known to every individual since their childhood, but on some occasions, the situation compels the person to behave like a nosy! On that morning, as I started walking from my home, two individuals just crossed me and started walking in front of me in my morning walk route.

Eavesdropping is a bad manner, known to every individual since their childhood, but on some occasions, the situation compels the person to behave like a nosy! On that morning, as I started walking from my home, two individuals just crossed me and started walking in front of me in my morning walk route.