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The letter says, “You should hold talks with your own people and see whether they see a project that will benefit the speed-crazy is worthy of the investment required. If the ordinary people feel that Silver Line is in the interest of the state, please go ahead. Otherwise, drop it like a hot potato!”
The long-term suffering likely to come from the environmental damage we’re causing should impel us all to call for a major diplomatic push to end the nightmare in Ukraine now. After all, if the world’s great powers don’t pull together soon on climate action, we’re in trouble deep.
The mine would severely affect a vast area of Birbhum district. The top soil, which had taken lakhs of years to form, would be turned into a heap of wastes. The area would be turned into a desert. The fertility of the soil would be damaged. The diversity of terrestrial and aquatic life would suffer a huge loss.
Sukanya Shantha and Ruchira Petkar (Note: This article has been edited by us.) On May 30, around 15,000 villagers – the police had come prepared for around 10,000 protestors – gathered at the Rajiv Gandhi Maidan in Rajapur to demand an uncompromising roll-back of an oil refinery project announced by Fadnavis’s government early last year….
When Bhartiya Janata Party government was formed in Uttar Pradesh under the leadership of Yogi Adityanath a number of educated middle class people thought that days of caste politics and corruption were over. They were expecting a clean government. The Yogi Adityanath government cancelled all sand mining contracts alleging illegality and corruption in operations and…
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