#Exclusive: || #Kejriwal claims 10 lakh jobs given, but only 12,588 as per govt. data || * AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and other party leaders have been claiming for the past many months that the #Delhi govt has given – 10 lakh jobs – in the private sector to Delhiites (1/n)

All Delhi's Staps failed to meet the prescribed standard report by CPCB

Sounds like damage as the Art of Living Foundation 2016 World cultural festival which was taken up in #NGT!!!! @vimlendu @Indian_Rivers @we4earth @Earthworri1 @GargiRawat @Sonal_MK @CNNnews18 @kartikeya_1975

I report. Read the full story: https://t.co/fvY6KInMFP #environment #rivers #Flood #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

▶️ At ghats near both the DND and the ORB, uprooted small trees over six feet tall were seen on the temporary road leading to the ghat.

▶️ At a ghat on the eastern bank at ITO, a ramp was made over a water filled marshy ditch, using plastic bags filled with sand by an earthmover. A temporary bridge sort of structure was also visible, connecting two parts of the floodplains, with the river flowing between them.

the ghats. Also, excavating, levelling, and compacting of the floodplains were happening at all of them. ▶️ In a ghat near the Old Railway Bridge (ORB), an at least 500-metre road is being made using a bulldozer by filling up the floodplains using gravel and rocks.

directions, as the government is digging, levelling, and compacting the floodplains using bulldozers. ▶️ The Hindu visited six of the ghats and noticed that tall grass, shrubs, and other vegetation have been completely removed from the fragile ecosystem of floodplains in all

|| Delhi govt. fills up floodplains, builds road, removes vegetation to make Chhath ghats 'violating' NGT directions || ▶️ Several of the 17 ghats the Delhi government is creating along Yamuna for Chhath Puja seems to be in violation of the National Green Tribunal (NGT)

This is a must read! Brilliant reporting by @NidhiSuresh_. "Against God’s men: A nun, a bishop, and the trial of India’s Catholic Church" https://t.co/fTMq1y6CEK

DJB invites bids for 13 decentralised STPs to clean up Yamuna I report. #Yamuna #river #pollution #environment #Delhi #ChhathPuja https://t.co/uON8FP8hws

Allowing only green firecrackers was a decision which was bound to fail. And thanks to people who are intelligent enough to burst crackers in Delhi — despite already worsening air quality — everyone has to now suffer "very poor" level pollution & most likely "severe" tomorrow.

Left: 9:40 AM today Right: 9:40 PM today PM2.5: 160 To 249 µg/m³ GRAP II invoked:( This is what “green” looks like. Every burst called celebration is another breath lost. @gupta_rekha @mssirsa @CAQM_Official #RightToBreathe #IsGreyTheNewGreen #DelhiAirCrisis

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Global brands, Hindutva journals, non-existent magazine: Inside Dhami govt’s print ad spree @Basantrajsonu reports.

In push for Swadeshi, Over the past one-year, all 12 lakh e-mail addresses of Central government employees, including those of the PMO have migrated from NIC, a govt entity to a platform developed by Zoho, a private company. @AroonDeep and I report.

Punjab’s farmers struggle to reclaim flood-hit land amid ‘official apathy’ ✍️@ikasnik https://t.co/b6FRco0OeU

▶️ The farmers also complain about not receiving any help from the government till now, as people help each other. I report. Edited by @suhasmunshi Read the full story: https://t.co/1ofzNLPVd8 #Punjab #punjabfloods #Flood #PunjabNews

▶️ In many villages close to the Ravi river in Amritsar and Gurdaspur of north-western Punjab, which were flooded, the situation is similar. Acres of farmlands are still flooded or the standing crop is affected by the floodwaters, and at some places buried under tons of silt.

The rest of my field was covered under over five feet of silt and we have been working to clear it for the past two weeks." ▶️ The farmer pegs his losses at over Rs. 50 lakhs. "I have no idea how to pay back my loans amounting to Rs. 10 lakhs," he said.

filled with floodwater & the rest is covered with silt. ▶️ Standing next to a broken embankment & his silt-covered fields, near the Indo-Pak border, Mr. Singh said, "The bandh broke at night and the force with which water kept falling created this pit, which is 30-40 feet deep.