794 bodies recovered. Thousands still unaccounted for. Tell us, what was their crime?
I am writing this from the Himalayas from a country responsible for only around 0.1% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. Nearly 46% of our land is covered by forests. Around 94% of our installed electricity capacity comes from hydropower. We are rapidly moving away from fossil-fuel vehicles too: EVs accounted for about 74% of Nepal’s four-wheeled passenger vehicle imports in 2025/26. We protect forests. We generate electricity from our rivers. We are embracing electric mobility at a pace few countries in the world have matched. Yet today, our people are digging through mud, searching rivers and waiting beside phones for the names of their loved ones.
The Bhote Koshi flash flood has shown us what it means to live beneath a rapidly changing cryosphere. Our glaciers are retreating, our frozen mountains are becoming increasingly unstable, and the rivers that generate our clean electricity can also carry destruction into communities below. We did not build our prosperity by burning generations of coal and oil. We contributed almost nothing to creating the climate crisis at this scale. But we are being forced to survive its consequences. The people whose bodies are being pulled from rivers did not cause this crisis. The families still waiting for thousands of missing people did not cause it. The children, farmers, workers and mountain communities who lost everything did not cause it.
So from the Himalayas, we ask the industrialised world: how many Himalayan bodies will be enough? How many mothers must wait for children who never return? How many villages must disappear before “climate justice” becomes more than a speech at another conference? Do not come to us only with sympathy after the bodies have been counted. Come with responsibility. Come with climate finance, adaptation, loss-and-damage support and the courage to cut emissions at the scale this emergency demands. We want climate justice. We want the right to survive in our own mountains. We want a world where being born in the Himalayas is not a death sentence for a crisis we did not create.
World’s oldest civilization, the only one to survive unbroken since Bronze Age, shone in full glory last night.
A testament to over four millennia of resilience against invasions, suppression, and the tides of history, while retaining its sacred wisdom, rituals, and traditions.
We Have Won! No one can use ‘ORS’ on their label unless it’s a WHO-recommended formula.
This is the story of Dr. Sivaranjani Santosh, a braveheart paediatrician from Hyderabad, who fought for 8 years against sugar-rich drinks falsely marketed as ORS.
Her persistence led to FSSAI’s landmark order, protecting children and patients from misleading claims.
“These drinks had 10x the sugar WHO recommends, worsening diarrhoea and complications in millions of kids,” she explains.
This victory is not just hers, but belongs to everyone who stood with her — doctors, advocates, parents, and citizens demanding truth in labeling.
Scroll down to see how her 8-year battle changed the game for public health and children across India.
Credits : drsivaranjanionline on IG
#HealthVictory #PublicHealthIndia #ChildSafety #TruthInLabelling #FSSAI #DoctorsForChange #IndiaFightsBack
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Dr. Sivaranjani Santoshh has been fighting for 8 years against sugar-rich drinks falsely marketed as ORS.
We’ve been consuming sugary drinks when our body actually needs ORS.
Yet it took FSSAI 8 damn years to take a call.
Most Corrupt and Inefficient. That’s FSSAI.
Dr Sivaranjani Santosh fought constantly against the false marketing of ORS label on sugar laden drinks. Yesterday FSSAI published a circular that no one can use ORS word on their packets until and unless it is WHO approved ors formula.
WHAT A WIN. !!
She fought for 8 years against sugar rich drinks falsely marketed as ORS!
Kudos to Dr. Sivaranjani Santosh, a braveheart paediatrician from Hyderabad.👏🫡
నేను చూసిన మొదటి హీరో మా మామయ్య…
ఆయన జీవితం నాకు ఆదర్శం..
మామ చేతి నడకే ఈ రోజు నా పయనం..
ఆయన నేర్పిన నడవడికే ఓ జీవిత పాఠం..
మామయ్యే నా సర్వస్వం…
కష్టమైనా, సుఖమైనా.. ఆయన తోడుంటే అదే కొండంత ధైర్యం..
మామయ్య మాటే నాకు శాసనం.. ఎప్పటికీ ఆయనే నా బలం..
���ీ మెగాస్టార్.. మన మెగాస్టార్.. నా ముద్దుల మామయ్య చిరంజీవి గారికి జన్మదిన శుభాకాంక్షలు..
మీ మేనల్లుడు తేజూ
#HBDMegaStarChiranjeevi mama❤️
Does the Supreme Court know that the rabies vaccination needs an annual booster because the immunity a vaccine provides to a dog gradually wanes over time, making booster shots necessary? Who is going to keep the records of the annual vaccinations of the street dogs and ensure that they are taken for follow up at the correct time? #JustAsking
HEY DOG LOVERS
All you Dog lovers are shouting hoarse about injustice to dogs regarding the Supreme Court’s order. But where were they when a four-year-old child was brutally killed in broad daylight on the streets ..Likewise thousands get attacked every year
Where was your compassion then? Or is compassion reserved only for those with wagging tails while dead children don’t count?
And yes, there is nothing wrong with loving dogs. I love them too. But love your dogs in your own homes, in your luxury bungalows , in your manicured lawns. Love your imported Labradors, your pedigreed Huskies, your high-breed pets bought from breeders and hire staff to look after them
But the truth is this: the dog menace does not exist in your lavish villas. It prowls in the streets and slums. It stalks the alleys where the poor live, where children play barefoot, where no gates or fences protect them. While the privileged stroke their glossy pets, the powerless are left to tend to the wounded and bury their loved ones .
You talk about dog rights. Fine. But what about the child’s rights? The right to live. The right of his parents to see him grow. Do those rights vanish because you love dogs ? Do those rights matter less than your Instagram photos of you cuddling your own pedigreed pets?
Here is the truth you don’t want to hear: compassion without balance is injustice . If you truly love dogs, then adopt them, feed them, and protect them in your secure homes. Or force the government to come up with solutions . But don’t burden the streets with your love , where it turns into the death of someone else’s child.
The poor should not pay with their blood for the sentimental indulgence of the rich.
And realise this truth that a society that values the life of a stray dog over the life of a child has already lost its humanity.
No outrage for Taxes, rents, road deaths,corruption, housing crisis but rallies for animals over people.
Show me bigger gawar than Delhi wale.
#straydogs
The ones who step out of their posh flats straight into luxury cars, chauffeured from film sets to bars, discos, clubs or their husband’s cricket matches, have no business preaching about street dogs to the people who actually face them.
Your staged, PR-friendly photos with a stray are worth nothing. You’ll never be bitten because you’ll never set foot alone in the streets. You’ll never watch your child get mauled. You’ll never die of rabies.
So keep your hollow morality to yourself and stop lecturing those who live with the threat every single day.
After the SC, the Rajasthan HC has also ordered the launch of a special campaign to clear stray dogs and other animals from city streets.
The Court empowered municipal officials to file FIRs against anyone who hinders their duties.
The judiciary seems to have made up its mind, and soon we’re likely to see more state High Courts issuing similar rulings.
This is the only way this could have happened, the judiciary. For decades, govt and irresponsible dog feeders have ignored the plight of common people and allowed the problem to grow this large. Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan, what you guys did is not easy. Thank you if you are reading this.