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Delimitation debate: gender vs regional, caste identities https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/delimitation-debate-gender-vs-regional-caste-identities/article67327620.ece September 20, 2023 The next delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies will involve two shifts — from the southern to northern and eastern States, and from men to women across India   “Northern States like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have decennial growth rates of 12% to 15%, whereas, in the southern States, the decennial growth rates range between 6% and 10%. .. In the process, the serious concerns regarding the diminishing say of States that have stabilised their populations in the affairs of the Union could possibly be overshadowed by the countrywide unanimity on women’s empowerment. 

So the proposed expansion of women’s representation in lawmaking will weaken not only politics around regional identity, but also autonomous OBC politics in the Hindi heartland. The BJP had already subsumed caste identity politics within its Hindutva umbrella to a significant extent in the heartland.

Union Minister RK Singh On How India Plans To Meet Its Rising Power Demand https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-power-demand-add-30-gigawatt-thermal-electricity-generation-capacity-to-meet-rising-demand-rk-singh-4393566
Power Minister RK Singh has said India will soon launch a pilot project for producing 100 MW of round-the-clock power using green hydrogen as storage.
India NewsPress Trust of IndiaUpdated: September 15, 2023

*India to burn 40% more coal with new plans for thermal power*
https://www.financialexpress.com/business/industry-india-to-burn-40-more-coal-with-new-plans-for-thermal-power-3247742/ Comment by Shankar Sharma

If the country continues to increase its coal consumption at such a high rate even in 2023, as against the global need of massively reducing it immediately and making it zero in the near future, the climate change goals can only go for a toss with devastating consequences for our people. The pollution and contamination of air, water and soil are not the only concerns for our people, but the other ecological impacts such as ever depleting forest & vegetative cover and unacceptable increase in GHG emissions are fast escalating to become the existential threats for human kind.

That mushroom cloud Gopalkrishna Gandhi Published 23.07.2 https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/that-mushroom-cloud-some-thoughts-on-the-25th-anniversary-of-pokhran-ii/cid/1953898
Today, one does not hear voices from civil society talking of the nuclear threat or, for that matter, of biological and chemical threats to the world. Disarmament is a piety in conference agendas

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