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Stop construction of Vadhavan Port, have open discussions with local communities: Climate change activists

Arguing that the Vadhavan Port Project in Maharashtra has not emerged from the needs of the local communities, and instead threatens the livelihoods of fisher folk, Adivasi lands, agriculture and orchards, the sea, and coastal biodiversity, the NAPM has demanded that the project “should be scrapped immediately”

Floods wreak havoc in Assam’s Barak valley

Floods overwhelm people of northeast India, but is the Indian media more interested in reporting on Shiv Sena MLAs in Assam

Dhinkia: Three more anti-Jindal activists arrested by the police!

Villagers approach the police to complain against the series of arrest and demand a compensation of ₹ 40 lakh

Chhattisgarh gov’t halts three Hasdeo Arand mining projects

Activists demand that the projects be scrapped altogether

New Normal: Increasing incidents of Industrial Accidents, Fire, Blasts & workplace disasters

Dilution of all environmental protection regulations, assiduously fought for coupled with an utter lack of transparency makes Indian workers completely vulnerable, Gujarat leads the way

Scrap mining projects in Hasdeo forests: Friends of Hasdeo Aranya

Rights groups and invested experts discuss the Hasdeo mining project controversy in Chhattisgarh

SC sets aside NGT order shutting down factories operating without Environmental Clearance

Does this set a harmful precedent where manufacturing units can be established without following procedure and then be allowed to continue operating due to economic concerns?

Proposed K-Rail project to wreck Kerala’s fragile ecology

EIA report full of holes, gov’t pushing project through without answering key questions about land acquisition, rehabilitation and deforestation

Manipur HC reaffirms stay on development projects around Loktak Lake

The court directed authorities to address the deficiencies in the Integrated Management Plan for Loktak lake, including the lack of a “Brief Document” as required by the Wetland Rules, 2017

Birbhum: Adivasis opposing coal mining project get support from SKM

Farmers should not be forced to give up farmlands for the sake of mining industry, says SKM

Odisha’s JSW project could cause 94 deaths a year: CREA report

The report takes a close look at the health impact of the development project while highlighting missing data in the original EIA

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