Don’t Be Fooled… Violence Against Kuki Women in Manipur was Allowed to Happen
What’s chilling is the cynicism of the top man running the country. Why is the prime minister unmoved?
The FCI’s Bizarre Logic
The Karnataka government’s plan to launch its “Anna Bhagya” scheme on July 1 under which it was planning to provide 10 kg of free rice per month to each family below the poverty-line has run into problems because of the Food Corporation of India’s unwillingness to sell rice to that state.
Ecologists, Civil Servants Question Amendments to Forest Conservation Act; Citizens Protest – 3 Articles
The amendment Bill is set to come up for discussion in the upcoming monsoon session of parliament. More than 400 Ecologists, and over 100 Civil Servants have written to the government expressing their concerns over the amendment Bill. Also: “Citizens, Climate Action Groups Protest Against the Amendment Bill.”
The Forced Evictions Across India Around G20 Events
At the Press Conference organized by the Concerned Citizens of India at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club on 13 July, the release of the public hearing report shed light on the harrowing experiences of forced evictions across India in preparation for the G20 summit.
Death of a River: Fish Gone, Farmers Gone, and it Is the Turn of Residents Now
With illegal sand mining digging up the Yamuna, fishermen turn farmers only to be hit by mafia encroachment of the riverbanks. People fear they will be forced to relocate if mining continues undeterred.
Hydro Project on Yamuna ‘Bitter Lesson’ for Those Calling it Cheap Green Energy Source
The 120 MW Vyasi HEP in Vikas Nagar tehsil of Dehradun is on its way to becoming the textbook example of how thoughtlessly pushed hydro power projects are proving a nightmare for local people, a costly affair for the state and the nation and a disaster for the free-flowing living river.
Amidst a Govt-Enforced Data Vacuum, Stagnating Wages & Rising Costs Increase Economic Distress in Rural India
For nearly a decade, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has withheld or criticised available data on poverty. From the interiors of India’s richest state, Maharashtra, a report on how daily wages are stagnant, as inflation and rising costs push more Indians into poverty.
How a 61-Day Farmers’ Dharna has Shaken Uttar Pradesh’s ‘Bulldozer Raj’
United, landless workers and opposition parties force the State government to set up a committee for their demands.
Muslim Women’s Quest for Gender-Just Laws
Muslim women are in favour of gender-just laws, but Muslim women’s groups recognise that the women have to contest both the Muslim Personal Law and the politics around the demonisation of everything that is Muslim.
If Gyanvapi has Shivalinga, Who’s in Kashi Vishwanath?
Prof Vishwambhar Nath Mishra, a highly-regarded engineering professor at IIT-BHU and the mahant or head priest of the renowned Sankat Mochan temple in Varanasi, says the Hindutva brigade has latched on to the Shivlinga claim motivated purely by politics.