Sachin batted more mins in his career than Truss stayed PM, Indian journo trolls England Barmy Army
London: Liz Truss, the English Prime Minister who had taken charge of the country’s premiere office recently, resigned from the post on Thursday sending shockwaves in the international political circle.
The news of Truss resigning only 45 days after taking charge also caused an uproar across social media platforms including Twitter where several renowned figures took to the micro-blogging site to express their opinion on the matter.
Journalists, politicians, sportspersons, activists, and others were among the people who voiced their opinions about Truss’ resignation. The trolls nevertheless, also had a field day and within minutes of Truss’ resignation, the internet was flooded with memes and posts mocking the UK’s economy and Truss.
The Barmy Army the official Twitter handle of England Cricket fans also posted a tweet in this regard asking users to describe the current political situation in cricket terms.
Several users came up with creative replies to the tweet and tried to describe the political turmoil in the language of the sport. However, one reply that caught the eye of many and was appreciated by the users was that of an Indian sports journalist Himanshu Pareek.
Himanshu replied to The Barmy Army’s tweet with “Indian team captaincy”, he further posted another tweet adding Sachin Tendulkar, the Indian legend batted more minutes in his career than Liz Truss stayed as Prime Minister of the UK.
He added Tendulkar batter for 70,211 minutes across his career that spanned for over 24 years while Liz Truss stayed PM for only 64,800 minutes.
“Minutes Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar batted in his career-: 70,211 mins Minutes Liz Truss stayed as Prime Minister-: 64,800 mins” (SIC) he added.
The reply was liked by over a thousand people at the time of the posting of this report and it was liked by over a hundred people at the same time, the numbers were comparatively much higher than it was on the other replies.
Describe the current political situation in cricket terms 👇
— England's Barmy Army (@TheBarmyArmy) October 20, 2022
Indian team captaincy
— Himanshu Pareek (@Sports_Himanshu) October 20, 2022
Minutes Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar batted in his career-: 70,211 mins
— Himanshu Pareek (@Sports_Himanshu) October 20, 2022
Minutes Liz Truss stayed as Prime Minister-: 64,800 mins#LizTrussPM #LizTruss
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More than 50 lakh large farmland trees vanished between 2018 and 2022 in India: Study
New Delhi (PTI): More than 50 lakh large farmland trees vanished between 2018 and 2022 in India, partly due to altered cultivation practices, revealing a "concerning trajectory," new research published in the journal Nature Sustainability has found.
Researchers said that "an observable trend was emerging" wherein agroforestry systems are being replaced with paddy rice fields, even as a certain loss rate could be found to be natural.
Large and mature trees within these agroforestry fields are removed, and trees are now being cultivated within separate block plantations typically with lower ecological value, they said.
Block plantations, usually involving fewer species of trees, were found to have increased in numbers which some villagers from Telangana, Haryana, Maharashtra and other states confirmed via interviews.
The team, including researchers from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, explained that the decision to remove trees is often driven by perceived low benefits of the trees, coupled with concerns that their shading effect, including that of Neem trees, may adversely affect crop yields.
Boosting crop yields also contributed to the expansion of paddy rice fields, further facilitated by water supply which was augmented by the establishment of new boreholes, the authors said.
"This finding is particularly unsettling given the current emphasis on agroforestry as an essential natural climate solution, playing a crucial role in both climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, as well as for livelihoods and biodiversity," the authors wrote.
Agroforestry trees are a vital part of India's landscapes as they generate socio-ecological benefits, along with being a natural climate solution owing to their ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the air.
However, despite their importance, the lack of robust monitoring mechanisms has contributed to an insufficient grasp of their distribution in relation to management practices, as well as their vulnerability to climate change and diseases, the researchers said.
For the study, the team used AI-based deep learning models for detecting individual non-forest trees for each year. By tracking the tree crown over the years, they then analysed the changes. Crowns of multiple trees together form a canopy.
The researchers mapped about 60 crore farmland trees, excluding block plantations, and tracked them over the past decade.
They found that around 11 percent of the large trees, each having a crown size of 96 square metres and mapped in 2010/2011, had disappeared by 2018.
"Moreover, during the period 2018–2022, more than 5 million large farmland trees (about 67 square metres crown size) have vanished, due partly to altered cultivation practices, where trees within fields are perceived as detrimental to crop yields," the authors wrote.
The researchers clarified that while the findings may appear to contradict official reports and studies showing that tree cover has increased in recent years, they reported only gross losses and did not look at tree gains as a separate class.
