1. Will Probe Demonetisation When We Win: P Chidambaram
Calling demonetisation a “scandal”, senior Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram on Saturday declared they will investigate the Central government’s November 8, 2016, move after wresting power from the Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance in the Lok Sabha election.
“Demonetisation was an ingenious device used by the BJP to help its friends to convert black money to white money. Unaccounted money has become accounted. Post demonetisation, all the money has come back to banks. It is a scam which will be investigated when there is a change in government,” Chidambaram said.
Source: Hindustan Times
2. BMC Finishes Only 20 per Cent Pre-Monsoon Drain Clean-Up, Deadline 15 May
WITH barely a month left to finish its pre-monsoon nullah cleaning exercise across the city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is running behind on its May 15 deadline to complete the work. To date, the BMC has been able to finish only 20 per cent of the work in the island city and its suburbs.
Officials from the storm water drain (SWD) department said they had managed to finish 20 per cent of the desilting. The BMC is facing an uphill task of finishing the remaining pre-monsoon preparation work, an official said.
Source: Indian Express
3. T1 Killing: State, NTCA, Hunters Get HC Notices
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court (HC) on Thursday issued notices to hunters Asghar Ali Khan, his father Shafath, the Maharashtra government, the forest department, National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the Yavatmal district administration regarding the killing of tigress T1 or Avni in November 2018.
The respondents have to submit their reply within eight weeks of the order date.
Source: Hindustan Times
4. Navi Mumbai Society Switches to Solar to Reduce CO2 Emissions
Residents of a Navi Mumbai-based cooperative housing society recently installed a 31 kilowatt-power (kWp) rooftop solar power system in a bid to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) by one tonne every month.
According to the society members, the reduction in their annual carbon footprints is equivalent to planting 500 trees.
Residents of Alaknanda Cooperative Housing Society (CHS), which has 183 flats in nine buildings, installed the rooftop system — spread across 10,000 sqft area, having 100 panels — at a cost of ₹20 lakh in March, to power its water pump, four lifts, gardens, parking spaces and staircases.
Source: Hindustan Times
5. 20-Year-Old Goes Into Labour on Train, Delivers Baby in ₹1 Clinic at Thane Station
A 20-year-old woman from Ratnagiri, who was travelling to Mumbai by train, delivered a baby girl in the ₹1 clinic at Thane railway station on Saturday morning.
Pooja Chauhan, who was in her ninth month of pregnancy, was on board the Konkan Kanya Express with her husband and relatives, when she began experiencing labour pain.
Around 5.40am, the train reached Thane station, following which, Chauhan’s relatives informed the station master’s office of the situation. The station master’s office then contacted the staff of the ₹1 clinic at the station.
Source: Hindustan Times
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