GM mustard approval stirs a hornet’s nest and rings an eerie alarm
The GEAC’s recommendation for GM mustard cultivation has stirred a hornet’s rest, bringing even the RSS’s farmers’ wing against the BJP.
environment
India Inc celebrating World Environment Day: the highest degree of hypocrisy
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?
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
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
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
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 in general and conserving tigers in particular. The tigress Avni, codenamed T1, was shot by Asgar Ali, son of sharpshooter Nawab Shafat Ali, on 2 … Read more
South Delhi’s Fight for Saving Trees and the Irony of Development
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 severe air pollution and a deficit of nearly 900,000 trees according to a finding of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). The Delhi High Court … Read more
Maharashtra Plastic ban is a Stint by the BJP to Help Corporates
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 New Delhi-based mentor. From granting cabinet minister status to Sadhus, a sect of Hindu religious leaders, by the Madhya Pradesh government to the building of … Read more
Protest Against Rampal Power Station Rocked Bangladesh
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 of Bangladesh spontaneously joined a nationwide general strike called by different left-wing organisations against the coal-fired Rampal power station, which is an Indo-Bangla joint venture … Read more