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Narendra Modi Prime Minister @PMOIndia
COVID-19 has interrupted immunization services, health systems have been overwhelmed, and we are now seeing a resurgence of deadly diseases including measles. For many other diseases, the impact of these disruptions to immunization services will be felt for decades to come
Jamnagar’s contributions towards wellness will get a global identity with @WHO’s Global Centre for Traditional Medicine
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director-General, World Health Organization Hardeep Singh Puri Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs @HardeepSPuri
In nuclear law, the way people are introduced to the subject - whether they are introduced at all - will determine its future shape
Rafael Mariano Grossi Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency
Even as we expect 80 crore people to live in our urban areas by 2050, as PM Modi Ji says, this has to be viewed as an opportunity - not a problem. India has unleashed the world’s largest urban rejuvenation programme & the most comprehensive agenda for planned urbanisation ever
Brian Schatz
United States Senator
@brianschatz
Heat, temperature, and moisture combined will be the killers in South Asia. If there is anything that will genuinely force people to respond to the climate crisis, it is frequent heat waves, because unlike other episodic extreme events, it is widespread and will impact everyone Ajay Dixit Executive Director, Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, Nepal
Urban TRIVIA 6
May 2022 | www.urbanupdate.in
The environmental movement of the last generation was partly organized around stopping things. But to save the planet we are going to have to build things at an unprecedented speed and scale. We need to make it easier, not harder, to build big, planet saving projects
Trams came to India in the late 19th century. Kolkata, then capital of India, got horse-drawn trams in February 1873. Later, tram trains were introduced in 8 more cities including Mumbai, Nashik, Chennai, Kanpur, Kochi, Delhi, Patna, and Bhavnagar. Trams in Kanpur and Nashik closed down their operations in 1933 while other trams services were closed between 1950 and 1964 except in Kolkata that is still in operation.
