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<title>Has Gaza sucked the oxygen out of the human rights debate?</title>
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<title>ഭൂമിയെ പ്രകാശിപ്പിക്കുന്ന മുത്തശ്ശി പത്രം: കാരൂർ സോമൻ, (ചാരുംമൂടൻ)</title>
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<title>India’s electoral rolls crisis: is democracy out of breath?</title>
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<title>ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ വേണം, മാധ്യമവിചാരണ വേണ്ട; ജെയിംസ് കൂടൽ</title>
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<title>Operation Toofan: Kerala police struggle to deal with addicts</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Why Kerala is facing power cuts, and why the crisis has become a political fight</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Follow TNM’s WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.Kerala&#039;s power crisis has now moved beyond an inconvenience for households and businesses to a political fight over a more fundamental question: why does the state repeatedly find itself short of electricity when demand rises or hydel generation falls?Partial power cuts have continued for nearly two weeks, with outages being imposed during evening peak hours and reports from several parts of the state of multiple cuts extending into the night. The disruption has hit students, families with young children, and people working from home, while the lack of advance information about some outages has added to public anger. The government has now said it will put in place a system to alert consumers about planned restrictions at the feeder level. The crisis has also exposed Kerala’s dependence on electricity purchased from outside the state. Electricity Minister Sunny Joseph has said Kerala can generate only around 25% of the electricity it consumes, with the rest coming from the central grid and power purchase agreements with generators outside the state. Its dependence becomes particularly acute when domestic hydel generation falls and electricity is not readily available through the power markets.The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) government has blamed a combination of sharply increased demand, unusually high temperatures, inadequate rainfall, reduced inflows into reservoirs, and a shortage of power available nationally. Sunny Joseph has said peak demand, which was around 4,000 MW during the same period last year, has risen to about 5,200 MW. The peak period has also stretched beyond the traditional 7 pm to 10 pm window, with demand remaining high beyond 11 pm.Chief Minister V D Satheesan has also pointed to reduced inflow into reservoirs and the rise in peak-hour consumption, and said on September 9 that the government was working to bring in additional power and resolve the immediate shortage by around September 15. But that target has since been thrown into question, after KSEB chairman MG Rajamanickam indicated that restrictions could continue until the end of September, with sufficient additional power expected to become available from October 1 through short-term arrangements.At the same time, the government’s explanation has triggered a political counterattack from the Opposition, with former Chief Minister and Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] leader Pinarayi Vijayan arguing that the present shortage is as much a failure of planning and power procurement as it is a supply problem.Pinarayi challenges UDF’s 465 MW argumentThe most contentious issue in the political battle is a set of long-term power purchase agreements under which Kerala was to procure 465 MW of electricity at around Rs 4.29 per unit.The UDF government has alleged that the previous CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government had cancelled the said agreement, leaving Kerala without a relatively cheaper long-term source of electricity. Satheesan said that if the 25-year agreement had continued, Kerala would have had access to 465 MW at a much lower rate than the prices it is currently having to consider in the market.Pinarayi has rejected that explanation and questioned whether the cancellation can be blamed on the LDF government at all. He argued that the government cannot present the issue as a straightforward decision by his administration to cancel a valid 25-year contract.He said the agreement signed in 2015 during the UDF government&#039;s tenure did not have prior approval from the Union government, state government, or the Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission. The commission refused to approve the power purchase agreements in 2023, finding that the tariff determination had not followed a transparent process and that there had been deviations from standard bidding guidelines.“The legal problems in the agreement unilaterally entered into by KSEB led the regulatory commission to cancel it,” Pinarayi said. He also argued that the regulatory commission itself had been appointed during the UDF government’s tenure, and that the LDF government had instead tried to retain the power available under the agreement.Pinarayi said the LDF government even approached the Supreme Court seeking restoration of the agreement after it was struck down following the Appellate Tribunal’s verdict.His argument is that the present government cannot portray the agreement as a power source simply lost because of an LDF policy decision.“If the UDF government had entered into the long-term agreement while properly following the required norms, this crisis would not even have arisen,” he said.The dispute over the agreement is still before the Supreme Court, according to Pinarayi.Why is Kerala short of power?The immediate crisis is being driven by several factors.Kerala&#039;s peak demand has risen sharply, with higher temperatures increasing the use of fans, air conditioners, ]]></description>
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<title>അധികാരം ഉത്തരവാദിത്വമാണ് അലങ്കാരമല്ല;  കാരൂർ സോമൻ, ചാരുംമൂടൻ</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Why is disaster risk increasing in the Himalayas?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ In a warming world, rising temperatures in high mountain regions are driving glacier retreat and melting, contributing to an increase in the number and area of glacial lakes. As glaciers retreat, they can create new lakes or expand old ones, sometimes contained by natural dams made of ice or moraines — ridges of rock, sediment and debris left behind by glaciers.If these dams fail, glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) can release huge volumes of water and debris, severely flooding downstream communities and infrastructure. In some cases, GLOFs involve rockfalls or the collapse of entire mountain slopes with cascading impacts. Or there can be avalanches — massive, rapid downhill flows of rocks, ice and snow.Scientists have improved glacier and lake monitoring in the Himalayan region, but large gaps remain in data collection, sharing and processing. This affects real-time early warning for river systems that run across international borders. In the aftermath of the recent Nepal flood disaster, this explainer looks at the relevance of these issues.What caused the August 2026 disaster in Nepal?Initial reports suggested that a massive mountain slope failure involving glacier ice in Nepal’s Langtang National Park, close to the Chinese border. The mass of debris and flood waters travelled nearly 100 kilometres, gathering more water and rock as it gushed downhill, swelling and overflowing streams and rivers.In Nepal, scientists at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and their partners investigated whether the event was a high-altitude ice-rock avalanche. Rock-snow-ice avalanches — rapid, massive, downhill movements of detached rock with snow and ice — are expected to become more frequent as glaciers retreat and the permafrost thaws due to global warming.ICIMOD reported that huge masses of ice and rock entered the Lende Khola, a tributary of the Bhote Koshi River. The burst of water downstream had a devastating force and exceptional speed. The waters of the Trishuli River at the riverside town of Galchchi rose by nine metres within 30 minutes, and at Malekhu downstream by seven metres, ICIMOD scientists noted.“Continued inflow from the Mala River and other tributaries may have masked the upstream blockage. The steep gradient and narrow valley further accelerated and concentrated the flood, while the heavy debris load increased its destructive force,” reported Reliefweb, a specialised digital service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA). It caused a massive catastrophe along the Bhotkoshi-Trishuli corridor. People walk past damage in the aftermath of flash floods in Devighat, Nuwakot district, NepalWhat are the emerging scientific findings?Internationally, scientists initially considered an earthquake and a glacial-lake outburst. Seismic analysis, however, showed that the mass movement itself generated energy equivalent to a magnitude-5.2 earthquake, and no earthquake has occurred.Satellite imagery showed that the glacier–rock mass was gaining momentum in the days and weeks leading up to failure, as reported. Citing Manoochehr Shirzaei, a geophysicist at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, USA, Nature added: “(S)atellite images from just days before the disaster suggest that a section of the glacier and the rocks it sat on top of were accelerating in the weeks before the collapse, a concerning sign of an unstable system.” The precise sequence of how this disaster unravelled remained uncertain: it could have been a massive rockslide that pulled a part of the glacier downhill, or the glacier might have failed first, triggering a landslide.​What is a GLOF?A glacial lake outburst flood, or GLOF, is the sudden release of a large volume of water stored in a glacial lake. Glacial lakes can form beside, in front of, within, beneath or on the surface of a glacier. The barriers holding back the water may consist of glacial ice, moraine debris or bedrock.GLOFs can produce exceptionally high peak flows, sometimes far greater than floods caused by heavy rainfall or snowmelt. Their force can erode and transport large amounts of sediment and debris, and in some cases the flood can develop into a fast-moving debris flow.What are the challenges for downstream communities?Himalayan flood risk is changing not only because the climate and cryosphere — frozen water part of the Earth system — are changing, but because the source of a disaster and the people affected by it can increasingly be separated by hundreds of kilometres and one or more international borders, pointed out Vijaykumar P., Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Kerala.Downstream communities — not only in the mountains, but also the plains — demand science-based inputs for disaster risk reduction. Still, hydrological data-sharing mechanisms between China and India are inadequate at present, despite earlier agreements, as government reports suggest.Glacial melt i ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Kerala: A land where humanity has many addresses</title>
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