COST OF HUMAN CASUALTIES
Caught in a maize: In India’s ethanol blending ambitions, eggs are an unlikely casualty
The government wants to use maize to cut its fuel import bill. While this has strategic advantages, it puts a question over egg production — a source of nutrition for many Indians.
At collapsed Baltimore bridge, focus shifts to the weighty job of removing the massive structure
Teams work to clear Francis Scott Key Bridge debris, reopening Port of Baltimore. Salvage operation led by Coast Guard and state officials. Workers from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador involved. President Joe Biden and Synergy Marine Group mentioned in aid efforts.
If you want to protect animals, you have to protect humans first: Sumeet Gulati, Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi halted his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra due to protests after three people were killed by wild elephants. The cost of human casualties from encounters with big animals like elephants is far higher than the loss of crops. Developing marginal areas and providing better opportunities and income can mitigate human-wildlife conflict.
Ukraine: Counting the human cost of the war
The war in Ukraine since the Russian invasion in 2022 has resulted in tens of thousands of casualties, including soldiers and civilians. The exact number is hard to determine due to limited information from both sides. The UN's human rights office confirmed over 10,000 civilian deaths, but the actual figure is likely higher. Ukrainian authorities report thousands killed, particularly during the siege of Mariupol. Both Russian and Ukrainian military casualties are kept secretive, with estimates ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands.
How many Russians have died in Ukraine? This data tells what Moscow hides
Nearly 50,000 Russian men have died in the war in Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of Russia's war dead.Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, working with a data scientist from Germany's Tubingen University, used Russian government data to shed light on one of Moscow's closest-held secrets - the true human cost of its invasion of Ukraine.
Cost of Russia's war in Ukraine: Blood, treasure and chaos
Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine has left tens of thousands of dead, displaced millions and sown economic turmoil across the world. The war has caused death on a level not seen in Europe since World War Two. From Feb. 24, 2022 to May 21, 2023, 8,895 civilians have been recorded as killed and 15,117 injured, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), which said it believed the actual figures were considerably higher.
US General Mark Milley claims over 100,000 Russian Military casualties in Ukraine
General Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff said that more than 40,000 civilians have been killed on both sides during the conflict.
Ukraine's leader warns war will cost Russia for generations
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the Kremlin in an overnight video address of deliberately creating "a humanitarian catastrophe " and appealed again for Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet with him to prevent more bloodshed.
The cost of war: How Russia's economy will struggle to pay the price of invading Ukraine
Long-term perspectives are dire. If sanctions are maintained, Russia will be cut off from its main trading partners apart from China and Belarus. Rating agencies now predict Russia will soon be unable to pay back its creditors, again with colossal long-term impacts on the economy.
A father and daughter's grave marks the cost of Yemen's war
Taher Farag and his 2-year-old Liyan were inseparable, their family say. So earlier this month, when Farag drove to the market to buy food for his wife to make lunch, he took Liyan with him.
Step up trials of alleged Syrian war criminals, UN human rights chief says
Pro-democracy protests against President Bashar al-Assad's authoritarian family rule erupted in March 2011 in southern Syria and were met by a crackdown. But they spread quickly across the country and developed into a multi-sided war that in addition to the numerous casualties has forced more than 11 million from their homes, around half the pre-war population.
Inside Sterlite Copper case: People, the big casualty of the transition from profit to planet
The fault lines in this half-transition are exposed in the small city of Thoothukudi, located in south of Tamil Nadu, where the Sterlite copper plant has been closed since 2018. The city has seen its economy wither away despite its geographical importance to trade and industry.
Need a humane solution to this wild problem
Human-wildlife conflict isn’t new, but is on the rise in India. Cutting of forest for farming and industrial activities is bringing humans and wild animals face to face more often. An increasing shift towards cash crops where the stakes are high, meanwhile, is making the farmer protect his fields more fiercely.
Will the Covid-19 crisis redefine the globalised world order?
The COVID-19 crisis and its numerous fallouts can lacerate the already weakened roots of the globalised world order, with dire consequences for all the stakeholders, especially for those at the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid.
In a post Covid-19 world, new norms may emerge
The pandemic has not only caused innumerable casualties and grief, but has sent economies on a downward spiral. The only proverbial light at the end of the tunnel is a collective assumption that ‘this, too, shall pass.’
The human dimension of India’s IT woes
Many of those laid off were mid- or upper-level techies, with low lateral skills for other industries.
Mayday calls from the wild: Why Assam needs to revive elephant habitats
To minimize incidents of human-elephant conflicts, the state needs concerted efforts to create sustainable solutions. They include reviving elephant habitats, removing squatters from forest land, forcing industrial units to vacate land close to elephant habitats, and re-settle tribes that live off forests away from the elephant corridors.
US targeting of Chinese scientists fuels a brain drain
Like tens of thousands of China’s best and brightest, Zhao came to the U.S. to earn his doctorate and settled down as a permanent U.S. resident.
Siachen: Here's why Indian soldiers fight and continue to die in the world's most unforgiving battlefield
MoD data shows that India has lost almost 900 soldiers since 1984 — mostly to natural calamities and illnesses caused by oxygen deprivation.
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