NEWS ETC Human trafficking survivors highlight loopholes in the pending draft Bill The Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill 2021 is expected to be passed in the ongoing Winter Session...
NEWS ETC Farmers’ protest completes one year; 90-yo Bhagwan Kaur has been camping for a year now Farmers and their families from Punjab and Haryana joined the protest against the farm laws, fighting the harsh winters, unseasonal...
NEWS ETC India’s waste management systems unfit to address the silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance Antimicrobial resistance is a global public health threat and has become one of the greatest challenges in the efforts to...
OUR ENVIRONMENT Chhattisgarh: A minefield for environmental disaster, warns a WII report on the Hasdeo-Aranya coalfield The environmentally sensitive Chhattisgarh has been subject to incessant mining. A recently released report by Wildlife Institute of India substantiates...
NEWS ETC Jubilant mood at Singhu border but farmers want repeal of farm laws stamped, sealed and delivered Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to the nation on November 19, said that the three contentious agri laws...
NEWS ETC Rural women craftspersons find a platform at Saras Aajeevika Mela in Delhi Saras Aajeevika Mela is on at the 40th International Trade Fair 2021, in New Delhi between November 14 to November...
OUR ENVIRONMENT Subsidy worth crores, monetary fines and seeder technology too; but no end to stubble burning in Punjab Sangrur district of Punjab is one of the hot-spots for stubble burning that recorded 566 fire cases on November 11....
NEWS ETC A year on, farmers in Thanjavur, who lost their crops to Cyclone Nivar, yet to receive compensation under PM Fasal Bima Yojana Because of data mismatch and discrepancy, many farmers in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu complain that they have not been...
NEWS ETC Safdarjung hospital teeming with patients as dengue cases cross 1000 mark and record 6 deaths in Delhi Delhi recorded 531 cases of dengue last week taking the toll to 1,536 this year. 6 people in Delhi have...
NEWS ETC Child rights body suggests raising legal age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21; experts demand stronger enforcement of existing laws Priyank Kanoongo, the chairperson for National Commission for Protection of Child Rights said that the probability of a person remaining...
