Joshimath: SC declines urgent hearing, says institutions working on it
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to give an urgent hearing to a petition highlighting the land subsidence issue in Joshimath town of Uttarakhand, saying "everything important need not come to us". "There are democratically elected institutions working on it," the court said. The bench, comprising Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha, said it would hear the matter on January 16. The court's reaction came after the petitioner, Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, urged the court to hear the matter on Wednesday.
Loan fraud case: CBI asked to file affidavit on Dhoot's plea against arrest
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to file by Friday its affidavit in response to a petition of Videocon Group founder Venugopal Dhoot, seeking to quash an FIR registered in a bank loan fraud case, to declare his arrest as "arbitrary and illegal" and to be released on bail.
Pakistan flour crisis worsens; prices skyrocket amidst wheat shortage
Pakistan is facing its worst-ever flour crisis with parts of the country reporting shortage of wheat and stampedes. Several areas in Khyber Panhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan provinces are severaly hit. Tens of thousands of peopel are spending hours daily to get subsidised bags of flour that are already short in supply in the market, according to a report in the The Express Tribune.
South Asians '15 times more likely die from climate change impact': Guterres
South Asia is the hotspot of the climate crisis with the people there most prone to die from its impact, according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. "South Asia is one of the world's global climate crisis hotspots -- in which people are 15 times more likely to die from climate impacts than elsewhere. As always, those developing countries least responsible (for climate change) are the first to suffer" because of it," he added at a UN-sponsored fund-raising conference in Geneva.
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