by Pooja | Jul 15, 2021 | News
There has been a 600% increase in urbanisation – increase in concrete cover — in Doon between 1995 and 2015. As a result, the city has lost over 18% of its seasonal streams, which have now converted into ephemeral (rain-dependent) seasonal streams. It has also...
by Pooja | Jul 14, 2021 | News
Indian economy is struggling to come to terms with the unprecedented COVID Crisis. While the government authorities are focusing to bring down its impact on the other hand by safely restarting the activities the bigger challenges of climate change needs to be...
by Pooja | Jul 14, 2021 | News
The recent Joint Communication by both the Secretaries of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Ministry of Tribal Affairs for implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006 dilutes...
by Pooja | Jul 14, 2021 | News
If North America is predominantly made up of new immigrants, India is largely a country of old immigrants, which explains its tremendous diversity. It follows that tolerance and equal respect for all communities and sects are an absolute imperative if we wish to keep...
by Pooja | Jul 14, 2021 | News
On 4 May 2021, Ramjeevan Paswan, a dedicated defender of the rights of Indian indigenous farmers, passed away after contracting the COVID-19 virus. Ramjeevan had campaigned against the proposed Godda coal-power plant, the intended destination for coal from Adani’s...
by Pooja | Jul 13, 2021 | News
Development according to Amartya Sen is a process of expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy. It is the process of enhancing individual capacities to avoid various deprivations such as starvation, malnutrition, morbidity, and mortality. But nowadays the...
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