Reportage After Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra oppose the Centre’s auction of 41 coal blocks for commercial mining Recently the Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the auction of 41 coal mines for commercial mining in the country. Jharkand...
Reportage PM Modi launches an auction process for commercial mining of 41 coal blocks. India’s first climate change assessment report projects a temperature rise of 2.7°C by 2040 and 4.4°C by 2099 Mining and combustion of coal, a fossil fuel, is linked to both environmental pollution and climate change. India’s first climate...
Reportage Survey pegs Cyclone Nisarga losses in Maharashtra at Rs 1,000 crore. Plantations uprooted, houses flattened and fishing boats damaged A joint survey by the National Fishworkers’ Forum and Maharashtra Machhimar Kriti Samiti has recorded extensive damages in the coastal...
Reportage Power supply restored, but Cyclone Amphan has wiped off all livelihoods in the Sundarbans Almost a month after the Cyclone Amphan made a landfall in the Sundarbans, power supply is restored in Sagar Island....
Reportage In a first, the BRO organises a special train for Jharkhand’s road construction ‘soldiers’ They were recently airlifted from Leh by the Jharkhand government, which brought to light the plight of migrant workers building...
Reportage Blood shortage brought on by the lockdown continues; thalassemia patients in extreme distress Every day 27 children with thalassemia are born in India. This genetic blood disorder requires regular blood transfusion for lifetime....
Reportage No income, no ration card, hefty room rent; women in Mumbai’s slums struggle to feed their kids Many urban poor women are the sole bread winners for their families. Due to the lockdown, they have lost their...
Uncategorized Higher wages and welfare measures for ‘migrant’ workers — Jharkhand government to sign a first-of-its-kind MoU with the Border Roads Organisation Since the 1960s, villagers from Jharkhand have been travelling to border areas of the country to build roads and bridges...
Reportage The west coast of India braces for Cyclone Nisarga; the east coast is still recovering from Super Cyclone Amphan Both pre-monsoon and post-monsoon cyclonic activities are on the rise in the Arabian Sea. Climate scientists blame this on the...
Reportage Jharkhand airlifts 180 more workers from Port Blair in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands After airlifting 60 of its workers from Leh in the Ladakh Union Territory in northernmost part of the country, the...
