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New Delhi, Apr 26 () Undeterred by the fear of death, 57-year-old Asif Khan has kept his nose to the grindstone to dig out coal so that the country's power plants can keep running at a time when people have been forced to stay indoors due to the COVID-19 crisis. With the country confronted with an unprecedented situation, Khan, who works in the Kamptee open cast mine of Coal India arm WCL, said it was time to serve the nation "the way a soldier fearlessly keeps his life at stake to guard his country against the enemies." Khan considers the COVID-19 crisis as a "once in a lifetime" opportunity to serve the country by reporting to work amid all the risks. "If me and many like me don't go to work, who would produce coal," he asked. "I don't want that a situation arises when in the absence of coal, the country's power houses come to a standstill, and in the absence of electricity, the hospitals which are treating corona virus patients collapse," Khan told over phone. There are many more mine workers like Khan who have braved the risks associated with the pandemic to fulfil their professional duties. Shiv Kumar Yadav is one such worker. He has been at the frontline since the beginning of crisis, producing coal so that Coal India Ltd (CIL) is able to meet its output target and keep electricity generators well-supplied during summers when the fuel demand shoots up drastically. Yadav was haunted by the fear of COVID-19 when the countrywide lockdown began. "My son said 'papa please don't go. God forbid, if you get infected so would we'," Yadav reminisces. However, Yadav says he did not succumb to the pressure of his family, adding that a sense of duty and urge to serve the nation makes him and his colleagues report to work even in these trying times. Another coal miner Ranjeet Singh said, "We all are putting our best so that Coal India does not die." Gopal Singh owes a lot to the Coal India management, particularly his immediate boss Diwakar Gokhale, who is Area General Manager (Nagpur Area) of Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL), for his "never-say-die" spirit. To motivate the workers, the company undertakes various initiatives. Recently, under the leadership of Gokhale, the workers were given floral tributes and applauded heartily when they came out of the mine after completing their shift. A special team of four-five members was flown from Nagpur to the mines, some 40 kms away, for the initiative. All social distancing norms were followed, Gokhale said, adding that miners have to be motivated in such challenging times. The company has also taken several steps to ensure safety of its workers. Beside providing masks, foot-operated wash basins have been installed at vulnerable places in all the mines of the Nagpur area, with the city reporting many coronavirus cases. Sanitation of all heavy earth moving machines takes place in all the three working shifts on a daily basis, he added. SID SID BAL ABMABM

COVID-19: Unsung mining heroes brave odds to produce coal, keep power plants running

<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/47329907.cms" /> India’s <keyword id="71" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Prime-Minister">prime minister</keyword> <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> might be smiling from ear to ear. His message of Swachh Bharat or Clean India has reached the core of a resident of a remote village in Maharashtra. 
 A bride, <keyword id="2855419" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chaitali-Galakhe">Chaitali Galakhe</keyword> of Andura village in Balapur tehsil of Akola district was getting married on the 15th of this month. And <keyword id="16032" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Guess">guess</keyword> what she demanded as a wedding gift? Well, it’s a toilet. 
 
The guests at her wedding were taken by surprise to find a toilet amongst the other gifts that Chaitali received from her relatives and in laws side. The toilet with a water closet, a wash basin and mirror was the cynosure of all eyes at the event. 
 Chaitali, who got married to <keyword id="2857038" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Devendra-Makode">Devendra Makode</keyword> from a village in Maharashtra's Yavatmal district came to know that there is no toilet at her in laws place. 
 
 
"I told my father and uncle to provide a toilet. They fulfilled my request. I think it is more useful than some of the other items normally given during marriage," she said. 
 
Her father listened to her demand and gifted it to her. Not only did she stand as a unique villager much different from many Indians, she has also bagged an award of Rs 10 lakh from NGO, Sulabh International for having demanded such an unusual gift, which . 
 Earlier, Sulabh International has awarded 6 such <keyword id="624" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Women">women</keyword> who have raised their voice for toilet in different parts of India.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52582953ecad04360a57f2e8-1200-924/chinas-water-shortage-no-swimming.jpg?maxX=480" border="0" alt="China's water shortage no swimming " width="480" /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/remkotanis/">Flickr/Remko Tanis </a></div></div>Northern <keyword id="1334" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="China">China</keyword> is running out of <keyword id="15300" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Water">water</keyword>, but the government's remedies are potentially disastrous
CHINA endures choking smog, mass destruction of habitats and food poisoned with heavy metals. But ask an environmentalist what is the country's biggest problem, and the answer is always the same. "Water is the worst," says Wang Tao, of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Centre in Beijing, "because of its scarcity, and because of its <keyword id="13001" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="pollution">pollution</keyword>." "Water," agrees Pan Jiahua, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. "People can't survive in a desert." Wang Shucheng, a former water minister, once said: "To fight for every drop of water or die: that is the challenge facing China."
He was not exaggerating. A stock image of China is a fisherman and his cormorant on a placid lake. The reality is different. The country uses 600 billion cubic metres (21,200 billion cubic feet) of water a year, or about 400 cubic metres a person--one-quarter of what the average American uses and less than half the international definition of water stress.
The national average hides an even more alarming regional disparity. Four-fifths of China's water is in the south, notably the Yangzi river basin. Half the people and two-thirds of the farmland are in the north, including the Yellow River basin. Beijing has the sort of water scarcity usually associated with Saudi Arabia: just 100 cubic metres per person a year. The water table under the capital has dropped by 300 metres (nearly 1,000 feet) since the 1970s.
China is using up water at an unsustainable rate. Thanks to overuse, rivers simply disappear. The number of rivers with significant catchment areas has fallen from more than 50,000 in the 1950s to 23,000 now. As if that were not bad enough, China is polluting what little water it has left. The Yellow River is often called the cradle of Chinese civilisation. In 2007 the Yellow River Conservancy Commission, a government agency, surveyed 13,000 kilometres (8,000 miles) of the river and its tributaries and concluded that a third of the water is unfit even for agriculture. Four thousand petrochemical plants are built on its banks.
The water available for use is thus atrocious. Song Lanhe, chief engineer for urban water-quality monitoring at the housing ministry, says only half the water sources in cities are safe to drink. More than half the groundwater in the north China plain, according to the land ministry, cannot be used for industry, while seven-tenths is unfit for human contact, ie, even for washing. In late 2012 the Chinese media claimed that 300 corpses were found floating in the Yellow River near Lanzhou, the latest of roughly 10,000 victims--most of them (according to the local police) suicides--whose bodies have been washing downstream since the 1960s.
In 2009 the World Bank put the overall cost of China's water crisis at 2.3% of GDP, mostly reflecting damage to health. Water shortages also imperil plans to expand energy production, threatening economic growth. China is hoping to follow America into a shale-gas revolution. But each shale-gas well needs 15,000 tonnes of water a year to run. China is also planning to build around 450 new coal-fired power stations, burning 1.2 billion tonnes of coal a year. The stations have to be cooled by water and the coal has to be washed. The grand total is 9 billion tonnes of water. China does not have that much available. According to the World Resources Institute, a think-tank in Washington, DC, half the new coal-fired plants are to be built in areas of high or extremely high water stress.
<h3>Every drop is precious</h3>
The best answer would be to improve the efficiency with which water is used. Only about 40% of water used in industry is recycled, half as much as in Europe. The rest is dumped in rivers and lakes. Wang Zhansheng of Tsinghua University argues that China is neglecting its urban water infrastructure (sewerage, pipes and water-treatment plants), leading to more waste. Water prices in most cities are only about a tenth of the level in big European cities, yet the government is reluctant to raise them, for fear of a popular backlash.
The result is that China's "water productivity" is low. For each cubic metre of water used, China gets $8-worth of output. The average for European countries is $58 per cubic metre. Of course, these countries are richer--but they are not seven times richer.
Rather than making sensible and eminently doable reforms in pricing and water conservation, China is focusing on increasing supplies. For decades the country has been ruled by engineers, many of them hydraulic engineers (including the previous president, Hu Jintao). Partly as a result, Communist leaders have reacted to water problems by building engineering projects on a mind-boggling scale.
The best known such project is the Three Gorges dam on the Yangzi. But this year an even vaster project is due to start. Called the South-North Water Diversion Project, it will link the Yangzi with the Yellow River, taking water from the humid south to the parched north. When finished, 3,000km of tunnels and canals will have been drilled through mountains, across plains and under rivers. Its hydrologic and environmental consequences could be enormously harmful.
The project links China's two great rivers through three new channels. The eastern, or downstream one is due to open by the end of this year (see map on previous page). It would pump 14.8 billion cubic metres along 1,160km of canals, using in part a 1,500-year-old waterway, the Grand Canal. The water pumped so far has been so polluted that a third of the cost has gone on water treatment. A midstream link, with 1,300km of new canals, is supposed to open by October 2014. That is also when work on the most ambitious and controversial link, the upstream one across the fragile Himalayan plateau, is due to begin. Eventually the South-North project is intended to deliver 45 billion cubic metres of water a year and to cost a total of 486 billion yuan ($79.4 billion). It would be cheaper to desalinate the equivalent amount of seawater.
The environmental damage could be immense. The Yangzi river is already seriously polluted. Chen Jiyu of the Chinese Academy of Engineering told South Weekly, a magazine, in 2012 that the project so far has reduced the quantity of plankton in the Yangzi by over two-thirds and the number of benthic organisms (those living on the river bottom) by half. And that was before it even opened. Ma Jun, China's best known environmental activist, says the government's predilection for giant engineering projects only makes matters worse, "causing us to hit the limits of our water resources".
But the biggest damage could be political. Proposed dams on the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra, Mekong and other rivers are bound to have an impact on downstream countries, including India, Bangladesh and Vietnam. The Chinese say they would take only 1% of the run-off from the giant Brahmaputra. But if all these projects were operational--and the engineering challenges of one or two of them are so daunting that even the Chinese might balk at them--they would affect the flow of rivers on which a billion people depend. Hence the worries for regional stability. And all this would increase China's water supplies by a mere 7%. The water crisis is driving China to desperate but ultimately unhelpful measures.
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As usual, the books span genres, from military crime thrillers to a poignant story of two teens with cancer falling in love. There's truly something for everyone on this list.
You won't be able to put these books down.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-Fall-Down-Jennifer-Weiner/dp/145161778X/ref=lp_9214785011_1_6?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401294365&amp;sr=1-6" target="_blank">"All Fall Down: A Novel" by Jennifer Weiner</a>: A poignant story that follows an ordinary woman who sinks into addiction, Allison struggles to be a wife, mother, and daughter while her dependence on prescription pills worsens beyond her control.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mountains-Echoed-Khaled-Hosseini/dp/1594632383/ref=lp_9214785011_1_11?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401294365&amp;sr=1-11" target="_blank">"And the Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini</a>: From the author of "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns" comes the tale of an Afghanistan family torn apart. After a father sells his daughter, she and her brother struggle for half a century to reunite across Kabul, Paris, San Francisco, and Greece.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Am-Pilgrim-Thriller-Terry-Hayes/dp/1439177724/ref=lp_9214785011_1_10?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401294365&amp;sr=1-10" target="_blank">"I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller" by Terry Hayes</a>: This book tells the story of a former head of a secret U.S. government organization trying to stop a terrorist attack that is only all-too-believable in this day in age. It races across Paris, Switzerland, Afghanistan, Syria, and Turkey for a twisting, smart, and nail-biting chase.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Girls-Unsolved-American-Mystery/dp/0062183656/ref=sr_1_17?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401298738&amp;sr=1-17" target="_blank">"Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery" by Robert Kolker</a>: The true-life search for a serial killer that targeted call girls on Long Island, this book explores the unsolved murders, the underbelly of the Internet, and gives empathetic and detailed portraits of the victims based on hundreds of hours of interviews with their family and friends. 
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/My-Salinger-Year-Joanna-Rakoff/dp/0307958000/ref=sr_1_19?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401298738&amp;sr=1-19" target="_blank">"My Salinger Year" by Joanna Rakoff</a>: Rakoff's beautifully written memoir recounts her post-graduate year in the late '90s working at a literary agency in New York that represented J.D. Salinger. After she starts responding to the author's fan mail, she finds herself being drawn more into their devotion and discovers her own artistic voice by acting as Salinger's.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/One-Plus-Novel-Jojo-Moyes/dp/0525426582/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401298738&amp;sr=1-14" target="_blank">"One Plus One: A Novel" by Jojo Moyes</a>: Jess is a single parent struggling to take care of her 10-year-old daughter and her teenage stepson. But on their way to a Math Olympiad that could change her daughter's future, Jess's car breaks down. After a chance meeting, she is forced to rely on Ed, an ex-software engineer who has been accused of insider trading, to take them the rest of the way.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/One-Summer-America-Bill-Bryson/dp/0767919416/ref=lp_9214785011_1_12?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401294365&amp;sr=1-12" target="_blank">"One Summer: America, 1927" by Bill Bryson</a>: 1927 was the year of Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic, the beginnings of Babe Ruth's home run record, a sensational murder trial, a massive flood, and Al Capone tightening his grip on the illegal booze trade. This book captures the personalities and events of 1927. 
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blessings-Elise-Juska/dp/1455574031/ref=sr_1_13?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401298738&amp;sr=1-13" target="_blank">"The Blessings" by Elise Juska</a>: The Blessings are a close-knit Irish Catholic family living in Philadelphia. Told from the perspectives of multiple family members, readers jump back and forth through the four generations of the extended family after the tragic death of one of its members rocks the large clan to its core.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fault-Our-Stars-John-Green/dp/014242417X/ref=lp_9214785011_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401294365&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank">"The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green</a>: 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster is a three-year stage IV-cancer survivor. When she meets Augustus Waters in a cancer survivor support group, her perspective on life and all that she can accomplish changes dramatically. Prepare to laugh and cry as you read this bittersweet novel about their falling in love.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lowland-Vintage-Contemporaries-Jhumpa-Lahiri/dp/0307278263/ref=sr_1_15?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401298738&amp;sr=1-15" target="_blank">"The Lowland (Vintage Contemporaries)" by Jhumpa Lahiri</a>: Two brothers living in Calcutta could not be more different: Udayan is idealistic and involved in India's 1960s rebellion, whereas Subhash is cautious, reliable, and serious. But when Udayan dies due to political violence, Subhash steps in and marries his dead brother's pregnant wife - an act that will reverberate through the family for the next 70 years.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Matchmaker-Free-Preview-First-Chapters-ebook/dp/B00IWZJ3BW/ref=lp_9214785011_1_8?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401294365&amp;sr=1-8" target="_blank">"The Matchmaker" by Elin Hilderbrand</a>: 48-year-old Dabney Kimball Beech is a matchmaker who has never been wrong about romance, except when it comes to herself. When reporter Clendenin Hughes returns to Nantucket after 27 years away, Dabney is forced to share some painful secrets with her husband and daughter, and try to find the perfect match for the ones she loves.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/One-Only-Novel-Emily-Giffin/dp/0345546881/ref=lp_9214785011_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401294365&amp;sr=1-3" target="_blank">"The One &amp; Only: A Novel" by Emily Giffin</a>: Shea Rigsby loves football, and her career at a sports writer. But after the unexpected death of someone close to her, she starts questioning everything about her job, boyfriend, and friendships - even falling for an unexpected father figure in the process.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Tearling-Novel/dp/0062290363/ref=sr_1_20?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401298738&amp;sr=1-20" target="_blank">"The Queen of the Tearling: A Novel" by Erika Johansen</a>: 19-year-old Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn sets out with her Queen's Guard back to the castle of her birth to ascend the throne with the Tearling sapphire - a jewel of magical power. Though she is not alone in vying for the throne of Tearling, she must reclaim the kingdom to bring an end to the Red Queen's dark magic and a vicious slave trade.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Romanov-Sisters-Daughters-Nicholas-Alexandra/dp/1250020204/ref=lp_9214785011_1_9?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401294365&amp;sr=1-9" target="_blank">"The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra" by Helen Rappaport</a>: Perhaps the most photographed and talked about young royals of the 20th century, the Romanov sisters - Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia - had a tragic end in a basement at Ekaterinburg in 1918. This book looks at their diaries and letters to capture their young lives against the backdrop of Imperial Russia.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Harry-Quebert-Affair/dp/0143126687/ref=lp_9214785011_1_7?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401294365&amp;sr=1-7" target="_blank">"The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair: A Novel" by Joël Dicker</a>: Trying to save his career as an author, Marcus Goldman visits his literary hero Harry Quebert. But when the corpse of a girl who disappeared 33 years ago is discovered on Quebert's property, he becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Goldman tasks himself with discovering what really happened that fateful summer of 1975.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vacationers-Novel-Emma-Straub/dp/1594631573/ref=lp_9214785011_1_5?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401294365&amp;sr=1-5" target="_blank">"The Vacationers: A Novel" by Emma Straub</a>: A two-week family vacation to Mallorca, Spain promises tapas and relaxation. Instead, the dysfunctional Post family and their friends bring along their secrets - all of which come to a head over the course of 14 days.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Top-Secret-Twenty-One-Stephanie-Novel/dp/0385363222/ref=sr_1_16?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401298738&amp;sr=1-16" target="_blank">"Top Secret Twenty-One: A Stephanie Plum Novel" by Janet Evanovich</a>: The next installment of the Stephanie Plum series, Plum is struggling to bring in a used-car dealer after he jumps bail, but bodies are mysteriously piling up in his wake. To make matters worse, her friend (sometimes with benefits) Ranger is the target of an assassination plot. 
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/War-Whales-Story-Joshua-Horwitz/dp/1451645015/ref=sr_1_18?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401298738&amp;sr=1-18" target="_blank">"War of the Whales: A True Story" by J. Horwitz</a>: A real-life thriller, this is the story of the legal drama that waged between the U.S. military and two activists who stood up to the U.S. Navy's use of a submarine detection system that flooded the ocean basins with high-intensity sound, driving whales in masses onto beaches. It's a gripping story of the struggle between American national security and safeguarding our environment.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/We-Were-Liars-E-Lockhart/dp/038574126X/ref=lp_9214785011_1_4?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401294365&amp;sr=1-4" target="_blank">"We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart</a>: Cadence Sinclair Easton is a part of an old-money family that spends every summer on a private island off of Cape Cod. But after Cadence mysteriously washes up on shore with amnesia, she spends the next two years and the course of the book trying to piece together what happened to her, her cousins, and her family. Even the most jaded readers will be shocked by the ending.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Written-Own-Hearts-Blood-Outlander/dp/0385344430/ref=lp_9214785011_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401294365&amp;sr=1-2" target="_blank">"Written in My Own Heart's Blood: A Novel" by Diana Gabaldon</a>: A new installment in the Outlander series, the novel jumps back and forth between 1778 and twentieth-century Scotland. Kidnappings, war, and family secrets rage on as the Fraser family struggles to pull itself back together.
To see additional Amazon picks for summer reading, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/9164523011" target="_blank">click here</a>.Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his personal investment company Bezos Expeditions.

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