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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 on 31 out of 33 districts in Assam
Over 25 lakh people displaced, standing crop destroyed, over 3,000 villages affected
Did Labour Ministry delete its paper on Gov’t ban on asbestos mining and use?
Paper was presented at India-EU Seminar 2011, but asbestos still used for for making Amphan, Covid-19 shelters, says Toxics Watch Alliance
Crushing dissent: Did GOI block websites of three environmental groups?
The three websites were running campaigns against the Centre’s controversial draft EIA 2020
Amphan Relief Fund scam hits WB
Allegations galore with dead people listed as beneficiaries, discrepancies in beneficiary account numbers and misappropriation via transfer of relief funds to politically connected people
Three decades on, many Sardar Sarovar Dam affected persons still await rehabilitation
The third and final part of the series on the project is an overview of the shortcomings of the government in providing resettlement and rehabilitation to project affected persons
Vadodara’s industries continue to pollute river and groundwater with impunity
Even though environmentalists have video evidence to support their claim, the industries are allegedly given free rein to operate by the authorities
The environmental impact of the Sardar Sarovar Dam
In part two of a three-part series, we look at the widespread ecological damage upstream and downstream of the dam and the loss of flora and fauna
Publish Draft EIA in 22 Indian Languages, Delhi HC to Modi Sarkar
The Delhi High Court has directed the Modi government...
Environmentalist decries continuous pollution of Daman Ganga river by Vapi industries
Rohit Prajapati of Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti says discharging effluents in the river is a criminal offence
Assam floods: 14 lakh people in 25 out of 33 districts affected
CJP meets thousands of people struggling with rising water levels during its relief operations in the state
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Nearly two decades without elections, Jamia students’ agitation forces administration to set deadline for union revival
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Arunachal’s anti-dam protests intensify as arrests, militarisation and threats to press freedom fail to silence resistance
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India
Delhi SIR: Public audit finds 416 of 1,236 deleted voters still at their registered addresses
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2020 Delhi Riots: Delhi High Court upholds seven-year sentence for five men in 22-year old Muslim migrant worker’s death
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