Thousands Now Homeless After Khori Gaon Demolition
Referred to by the Court as an encroachment, the settlement contains over 10,000 homes, with over 1 lakh residents (for scale, this is little under the population of the entire city of Darjeeling in Bengal, according to the 2011 Census). This is a conservative...
Chhattisgarh: Abandoned Durg mine to be site of India’s biggest man-made forest
India's biggest man-made forest will come up on 885 acres of land in a mined out area over the next three years at an estimated cost of Rs 3 crore in Chhattisgarh's Durg district, officials said on Sunday. The project, which will come up at the abandoned Nandini...
‘It Is All Connected’: Extreme Weather in the Age of Climate Change
The images from Germany are startling and horrifying: houses, shops and streets in the picturesque cities and villages along the Ahr and other rivers violently washed away by fast-moving floodwaters. The flooding was caused by a storm that slowed to a crawl over parts...
Narela Tribal Rendered Homeless
Amid the ongoing pandemic, over 40 tribal families belonging to the marginalised Bhil and Barela adivasi community in Madhya Pradesh’s Jamniya area, falling under the Khandwa district, have been rendered homeless. In its proceedings, the state forest department on...
Serious Connectivity Can’t Be One-Way Street: India On China ‘Belt And Road’
Building connectivity is an act of trust and it must, at the minimum, conform to laid down laws as respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity are the most basic principles of international relations, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said at a regional...
Migrant and informal workers must have social security
The heart-rending migrant crisis after the first lockdown captured people’s imagination, compelling policy-makers to make certain provisions for them in the schemes announced for the assistance of the poor. The migrants’ crisis after the second wave was a silent one....
Europe gives India an opportunity to counter China’s BRI
Interestingly, the European Union foreign ministers this week gathered in Brussels to announce a new global infrastructure-connectivity initiative to provide an alternative to the BRI. It’s no coincidence that the EU project has come in the wake of the 27-member bloc...
Stop illicit financial flow
As per UNESCAP Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2021 and APMDD - In Asia and the Pacific, an additional 89 million people are estimated to have been pulled into absolute poverty, setting back what limited gains had been made before in poverty reduction. We urge the...
चीड़ वनों को मिश्रित वनों में बदलें
इस समय विपरीत सुधार वानिकी की जरूरत है। यानी जिन वनों और चरागाहों को जबरदस्ती एकल चीड़ रोपणियों में बदला गया है, उन्हें फिर से मिश्रित वनों और स्वस्थ चरागाहों में बदला जाए। हिमाचल प्रदेश में साठ प्रतिशत से अधिक वन भूमि होने के बावजूद चारे का संकट होने से ही पता चल...
Business and Human Rights under India’s new labour codes
Baseline rights of workers in India have traditionally been dealt with under numerous,often overlapping, labour laws and overseen by multiple regulators. The approach hasmostly been a compliance (tick the box) exercise with hardly any emphasis on businesses’...
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