Crass Canada; Libyan Lessons; Salt Strokes
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau; City of Derna; WHO
Opinion Watch
Crass Canada
India has shown that the cost to shelter terrorists is indeed high with a slew of fast-paced actions in the aftermath of the outlandish claim of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and dailies continue to scorch Canada for moral lapses. The Tribune in its Editorial has hailed Chandra Arya, and Indo-Canadian lawmaker, who slammed his government for glorification of terrorism and hate crime in the name of freedom of speech. The Chandigarh-based daily also spotlighted that “Gurpatwant Singh Pannu, a designated terrorist, brazenly threatens Indo-Canadian Hindus”.
Evidences are aplenty that Canada is mortgaged to terrorism, and Justin Trudeau’s place is surely not in the comity of leaders of responsible nations, and rather he should be slotted in the league of rogue leaders who have blood on their hands.
Libyan Lessons
A full neighbourhood in the city centre of coastal city of Derna in Libya was washed away, leaving a deathly toll of over 11000 people. The Economic Times in its Editorial has underlined the Libyan lessons for India, for not caring for the old dams, as there are 204 functional damn here with age of over 100 years. The daily argued that the Mediterranean storm Daniel wasn’t the sole cause for devastations, for Libya failed to address structural flaws in dams, which failed to withstand the challenge. It also reminded the Chamoli mishap to underline seriousness of not safeguarding dams.
Governments all around the world are blinded to the challenges posed by the climate change, and Himachal Pradesh floods only reminded that we are very much in the midst of a crisis. Yet, the public discourse is more rooted to irrelevant issues.
Salt Strokes
Heart attack is the biggest killer in India, and The Hindu, basing its Editorial on the report of the WHO, pressed for an urgency for moderation of salt and sugar intake, specifically in the packaged food. The Chennai-based daily quoted the WHO saying that 188 million people in India are suffering from hypertension, while the stroke incidence was found to be 108-172 per lakh population, underlining that excess salt intake accounted for 17-30 per cent of hyper tension cases.
It must now be evidently clear that enforcement of norms is a tall order in matters of food, and it will be more incumbent for the stakeholders to bank on sensitization, beginning from the school, to change the food habits.
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