| No Images? Click here  The Shiv Sena has long opposed the plan to clear Mumbai's Aarey forest to make way for a Metro car shed. But heir apparent Aaditya Thackeray, instead of taking to the streets with protesters, wrote a long blog post about it. Huffpost India's Pavan Dahat writes why this was a big opportunity that the youth wing leader lost. Meanwhile, Akshita Jain spoke to Alan Robock, co-author of a study on the impact of a potential India-Pakistan nuclear war, on the ongoing arms race between the two countries. And while Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2019, Reuters reports not everyone in Ethiopia is a fan of his unpredictable style.Also, we’re currently updating our email newsletter system. Over the next few weeks you might run into some problems receiving our newsletters. Check your spam or junk mail folders, or email us at newsroom@huffpost.in if your newsletters are missing. Thanks, and we apologise for any inconvenience. Rather than hit the streets with his youth army, Aaditya Thackeray tweeted his support, even as the police roughed up and detained social activists and protestors. Opposition politicians like Prakash Ambedkar, the chief of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi, the Nationalist Congress Party’s Member of Legislative Assembly Jitendra Avhad and several Shiv Sena activists were detained by the police, but Aadtiya Thackeray stayed home.On social media, the blowback was vicious.  Alan Robock said that a potential war between India and China “could produce more smoke than the India-Pakistan case we studied”.The report had noted that both India and Pakistan may have 400-500 nuclear weapons by 2025 and that nuclear-ignited fires could release 16-36 million tonnes of soot.  New to this email? You can sign up here.You can also follow HuffPost India on Flipboard.©2019 HuffPost India | Worldmark 3, FL 3, Aerocity, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi 110037 |
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