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British-Era secret tunnel found inside Delhi Legislative Assembly, connects to Red Fort

  A tunnel-like structure was discovered at the Delhi Legislative Assembly on Thursday. Speaking to ANI, Delhi Legislative Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said that the tunnel connects the legislative assembly to Red Fort and was used by the Britishers to avoid reprisal while moving freedom fighters.  Goel further informed that the Delhi Legislative Assembly, which was used as Central Legislative Assembly after shifting of capital from Kolkata to Delhi in 1912, was turned into a court in 1926 and Britishers used this tunnel to bring freedom fighters to the court.  "When I became an MLA in 1993, there was hearsay about a tunnel present here that goes till Red Fort and I tried to search for its history. But there was no clarity over it," he stated.  "Now we have got the mouth of the tunnel but we are not digging it further as all the paths of the tunnel have been destroyed due to metro projects and sewer installations," he added.  The assembly speaker added that i...
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India's Air pollution likely to reduce upto 9 years in life expectancy of Indians

 Air pollution is likely to reduce the life expectancy of about 40% of Indians across North and South India by more than 9 years, according to a report released by a U.S. research group on Wednesday.



The worst in India is the capital region of Delhi, where residents could live about 10 years longer if pollution levels met the WHO guidelines and seven years if it met India’s own national standard, the report said.

New Delhi was the world’s most polluted capital for the third straight year in 2020, according to IQAir, a Swiss group that measures air quality levels based on the concentration of lung-damaging airborne particles known as PM2.5.

Last year, New Delhi’s 20 million residents, who breathed some of the cleanest air on record in the summer because of coronavirus lockdown curbs, battled toxic air in winter following a sharp increase in farm residue burning in the nearby states of Punjab and Haryana.

More than 480 million people living in the vast swathes of central, eastern and northern India, including the capital, New Delhi, endure significantly high pollution levels, said the report prepared by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC).

"Alarmingly, India's high levels of air pollution have expanded geographically over time," said the report.

For example, air quality has significantly worsened in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, Reuters quoted the report's statement.

Residents of Allahabad and Lucknow cities in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where the annual average concentration of particulate matter was 12 times the WHO average, may lose as much as 11 years of life expectancy, the report said.

The report also lauded India's National Clean Air Program (NCAP) and said, "achieving and sustaining" the NCAP goals would raise the country's overall life expectancy by 1.7 years and that of Delhi 3.1 years."

The report says that Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, which together account for nearly a quarter of the global population, consistently figure in the top five most polluted countries on earth.

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