Surveying 400 houses, meeting Covid cases up close — a day in the life of a Delhi ASHA worker
For 42-year-old Rekha Balhara, an Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) worker in Delhi’s Neb Sarai area, the day begins at 4:30 am. After her morning chores, she leaves her small house in the area — where she resides with her family of seven — and begins her...
NHPC challenges additional tax on hydel projects in Uttarakhand in HC
NHPC, the largest hydropower generator in India, has filed a special appeal in the Uttarakhand high court (HC), challenging the judgment issued by a single bench judge in February, which upheld the state’s right to levy additional tax on hydropower projects. After...
NGT directs Jindal Saw to Pay Rs 4 cr compensation for damaging houses
The National Green Tribunal has directed Jindal Saw Ltd to deposit Rs 4 crore as compensation because illegal blasting by it had caused damage to a number of houses in Pur village in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district. A bench headed by the tribunal's chairperson, Justice...
Couple dead while collecting coal in Ramgarh
A couple lost their lives as they came in contact with poisonous gas coming out from an open coal mine at the rajrappa project of the central coalfields limited. The deceased have been identified as Kameshwar Mahto (40) and his wife Chinta Devi (30).Police said that...
मध्य प्रदेश: मनरेगा श्रमिकों की 65 करोड़ 86 लाख रुपए की मजदूरी बकाया, योजना से दूर हो रहे ग्रामीण
कोरोना महामारी के इस दौर में गरीबों के सामने सबसे बड़ा संकट आजीविका का है। ग्रामीण इलाकों के मजदूरों को रोजगार की गारंटी देने वाली योजना मनरेगा से भी मजदूरों राहत नहीं मिल पा रही है। समय पर मजदूरी न मिलने के कारण, कई इलाकों में मजदूर नया काम खोजने और पलायन को मजबूर हो...
Indian Students Create Soil-Less Farming Technique That Uses 95% Less Water
India is a nation of farmers, where nearly 60 percent of people in India earn their living through farming. However, what many miss out on is also how India has the world’s largest livestock population. Despite this, many farmers focus on crops as they cannot afford...
Why Bangladesh has been ignoring India’s warnings about the Chinese ‘debt trap’
China’s Belt and Road Initiative has become almost synonymous with debt trap diplomacy. It’s a half-baked idea that created grounds for unfounded speculation. Many in South Asia view major foreign powers (like China) and changes in status quo (like new economic...
As temperatures soar across the world, a new approach is needed to talk about climate change
In recent days, as Western Canada and the United States have been broiling under a climate-fuelled heat crisis, all sorts of superlatives have been used to describe never-before-seen temperatures: the British Columbia community of Lytton hit a mind-boggling 49.5...
Five Asian countries to face tremendous losses if insistent on coal plants: report
The latest report from Carbon Tracker reveals a future in which the investment in coal power plants is deemed economically and environmentally unviable, and five Asian countries are poised to suffer great economic losses with their plans to hang on to dirty energy....
Row erupts at Green Climate Fund over who defines climate adaptation
The UN’s flagship climate finance initiative was gripped by a dispute this week over what a project to cope with the impacts of climate change looks like – and who gets to decide. Tensions rose during the online board meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) after only...