PRAGATIVADI:LEADING ODIA DAILY

-The Sikh population in India is 1.9 %. In Canada it is 1.4%.

-Justice Leila Seth was the first woman to top the London Bar examination. She was referred to as ‘Mother-in-Law’ by a London newspaper. The paper carried a photograph of the woman with her infant son, born only a few months before the exams.

-The Punjab Remote Sensing Centre recorded 43800 stubble burning incidents after the paddy harvesting season in the state last year, the highest till date.

-According to UN World Water Development Report low income countries treat only 8 % of domestic and industrial waste water compared to 70 % in high income countries.

-Delhi has a population density of 20000 per sq.km and car ownership of 131 cars per 1000 people,42 % of all daily trips are made by public transport.

-According to Tajmul Haque,Chairman of Social Cell of Niti Ayog average monthly income of a farmer’s family stood at Rs. 6427/- in India.But,it is less than Rs. 5000/- in Bihar,Jharkhand and Odisha.In Punjab it is Rs. 18000 cr.