You may have to spend more on pulses, vegetables this year …
In 2019, erratic weather patterns and unseasonal rain damaged crops across India. While the pulse crop of Kharif season has been adversely affected, the rains occurring between August and November had heavily affected the crops of urad, corn, soybean, jowar, bajra, onion, tomato, grapes and arhar, besides affecting the sowing of rabi season crops in many states
Mithilesh Dhar Dubey
Stuck between the coal mines and a mountain of mud: Story of an unfortunate village
Chilkatad village in Madhya Pradesh’s Singrauli district is at a crossroad. Because of coal mines, the pollution is high. Villagers don’t get clean drinking water, the air is toxic, people are falling sick
Mithilesh Dhar Dubey
Dhanbad, Bokaro, Singrauli … the coal mines are mining miseries for people living close to them
Coal mines produce fly ash in large quantity, making people living in these coal belts sick. Sadly, these people have been suffering from the ill-effects of coal mining for many generations
Mithilesh Dhar Dubey
The Rihand dam quenches the thirst of 20 lakh people, but these people are drinking toxic water
On Oct 6 last year, the dyke of a fly ash pond at a power plant of the NTPC in Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh breached, causing spillage in several acres of land. People living here are still suffering
Mithilesh Dhar Dubey
In Uttar Pradesh, sugarcane rate has increased by a mere Rs 20 per quintal in six years
Since 1999, the BJP has been in power for a total six years in Uttar Pradesh and during these years, the price for sugarcane has increased by a mere Rs 20