Lucknow, June 28 (IANS) Amid the challenges posed by heatwave and fluctuating climate, the Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday readied an ‘action plan’ to help students deal with the vagaries of weather or rather get the better of extreme heat by adopting the ‘right practices’. It has issued special guidelines for the teachers to help safeguard students from extreme heat, exhaustion as well as heatstroke.The Basic Education Department has released ‘Guideline for Teachers on Sensitising Students t…
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Paris, June 19 (IANS) A leading international human rights organisation strongly condemned the incident in which more than one hundred workers reportedly fell ill after consuming water supplied by a garment factory in Bangladesh’s Gazipur district, warning that such an incident reflects serious failures in workplace health and safety measures.The remarks came after over 100 workers at the Dressman Limited garment factory in the Chandra area of Kaliakoir upazila in Gazipur fell ill on Thursday …
Agartala, May 10 (IANS) Tripura Power Minister Ratan Lal Nath on Sunday said that the Power Department, in collaboration with Tripura Renewable Energy Development Agency (TREDA), is working extensively to provide electricity and clean drinking water through solar microgrids in remote hilly areas of Tripura where conventional electricity supply through poles and transmission lines is not feasible. The minister made the remarks while inaugurating a solar microgrid project and a community-based sol…