Tag: environment
GM mustard approval stirs a hornet’s nest and rings an eerie alarm
Reading Time: 6 minutes The GEAC’s recommendation for GM mustard cultivation has stirred a hornet’s rest, bringing even the RSS’s farmers’ wing against the BJP.
India Inc celebrating World Environment Day: the highest degree of hypocrisy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Corporates in India are celebrating World Environment Day with much fanfare while they are destroying the environment by encroaching on water, forests and land.
Aarey forest is gone. What about saving other forests?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Aarey forest issue created an upheaval in Mumbai and throughout India, but it’s never the same case when forests in Chhattisgarh or Jharkhand are axed.
The vexing alarm of water crisis is ringing in India
Reading Time: 6 minutes India is running out of water. It’s not surprising that the Modi regime and its corporate funders are exploiting the situation to profiteer from mass agony.
Remembering Hasdeo Arand, 170,000 hectares of forestland, sacrificed for Adani’s mining project
Reading Time: 5 minutes As millions suffer due to heat wave and children are struggling to breath amid pollution, the Modi regime donated 170,000 hectares of forest to Adani group.
Tigress Avni Killed to Appease Corporate Greed for Forest Land
Reading Time: 3 minutes The brutal killing of a tigress, Avni, by a sharpshooter illegally hired for the job by the Maharashtra government, showed how hollow is the Indian state’s commitment towards saving wildlife […]
South Delhi’s Fight for Saving Trees and the Irony of Development
Reading Time: 6 minutes A massive movement of South Delhi residents and environmentalists have stalled the Modi regime’s plan to axe more than 17,000 trees in the very city that is choking due to […]
Maharashtra Plastic ban is a Stint by the BJP to Help Corporates
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Narendra Modi-led BJP government has done many stints since coming to power and almost all of the BJP-ruled states have followed the suit to match the pace of their […]
Protest Against Rampal Power Station Rocked Bangladesh
Reading Time: 4 minutes Photo credit & ©Mahabub Alam Khan On 26th January Bangladesh was undergoing a turbulence due to a pact that its government signed with New Delhi back in 2010. The people […]