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With a judicial probe indicting the Sonepat police for keeping Kundli-based labour activist Shiv Kumar in illegal custody and torturing him, Shiv Kumar and his family members are now hopeful of justice.
A man was killed and a woman injured in a firing incident at Satnampura in Rama Mandi here on Monday night.
Residents of Nurmahal are peeved over the lack of basic amenities in the town and poor maintenance of public parks. A reply to an RTI application revealed that despite lakhs of rupees had been spent on the development of a park in Ward N0. 7, there is no visible change in the condition of the park.
Without adequate cooling, these conditions undermine countries’ development. When blistering heat strikes South Asia, the poor and most vulnerable, like Ravinder Kumar, suffer the worst impacts. When it is too hot to work, wages are lost, pushing families into cycles of poverty. School hours are cut short, depriving children of education and future opportunities. At home, where many people in South Asia live in inadequately ventilated buildings without access to cooling, extreme heat harms people’s health. Meanwhile, fragmented cold chain infrastructure leads to the loss of food and vaccin...
Governments in South Asia must prioritise accessible, low-impact cooling in their development strategies, write World Bank climate experts