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Modi Hailed Tribal Communities on 'Mann Ki Baat'. Here Are 5 Ways His Govt Is Robbing Them of Rights

Modi Hailed Tribal Communities on 'Mann Ki Baat'. Here Are 5 Ways His Govt Is Robbing Them of Rights
25.02.2025 4

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Aathira Perinchery

A Female Cheetah and its Four Cubs Released into the Wild in Kuno

22.02.2025 10

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Aathira Perinchery

Project Cheetah Unethical, Unjust for Both People and the Animals: Study

22.02.2025 10

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Why Adityanath’s Weak Attempts to Refute Ganga Pollution Fly in the Face of Facts

19.02.2025 5

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Budget 2025: The Environment Lags Behind as Energy Security, Development Schemes Take Centre Stage

02.02.2025 2

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Why Taxing the Ultra Rich and High Carbon Emission Activities Is Essential – For People and the Environment

20.01.2025 8

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Delhi's Air Quality Worsens in 2024, Report Says, Despite Govt's Contrary Claims

Bengaluru: Hacking coughs, smogs hindering visibility, schools stopping physical classes, construction being halted for some days, private vehicles...

07.01.2025 10

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India's Latest Climate Report to UN Relies on Questionable Data To Offset Emissions

Bengaluru: In 2020, India emitted 2,959 million tonnes (mt) of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere. The national greenhouse gas (GHG)...

06.01.2025 4

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ISFR 2023’s Grey Areas: Forest Degradation, Decline and FRA 2006 Cited as Being Linked to These

Bengaluru: The India State of Forest Report 2023 (ISFR 2023), released on December 21,  once again painted an overall rosy picture of India’s...

02.01.2025 2

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Modi’s Inauguration of Ken-Betwa Interlinking Project Is Just Another Example of His Govt's Consistent Ignoring of Science

Bengaluru: On December 25, prime minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the Ken-Betwa river interlinking project at Khajuraho, Madhya...

25.12.2024 10

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India’s Forest and Tree Cover has Increased Again, Says State of Forest Report 2023

Bengaluru: India’s forest and tree cover is currently 8,27,357 square kilometers, and has increased by 1,445.81 square kilometers over the last two...

21.12.2024 3

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India Radio-tags Its First Ever Gangetic River Dolphin – and Why This is Important

Bengaluru: On Wednesday (December 18), India radio-tagged – for the first time – a Gangetic river dolphin. The species, listed by the IUCN Red...

19.12.2024 2

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Protests Intensify in Arunachal Pradesh Against Siang Upper Multipurpose Project

Bengaluru: “If we have to die we will die but we will protest against the dam,” says Kut Ejing in a video note . Ejing is the Gram Panchayat...

18.12.2024 5

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Centre's Additional Guidelines to Permit Oil Drilling and Exploration in Forests an ‘Overreach’: Experts

Bengaluru: In November, the Union environment ministry released an additional set of guidelines to states and Union territories to “streamline” the...

13.12.2024 5

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Political Will Responding Only to Money Man, it has to Respond to People: Ecologist Madhav Gadgil

Bengaluru: On December 10, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced its Champions of the Earth awards for 2024. Six individuals...

11.12.2024 8

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Delhi Chokes On A “Severe” AQI of 494; More Restrictions in Place to Curb Pollution

Bengaluru: On November 18, Delhi was once again suffocated by “Severe” air quality. As per the Central Pollution Control’s Board (CPCB’s) daily Air...

18.11.2024 4

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Halfway Into COP29, Finance Deal Still Far Away; India 'Dissatisfied' With Progress

18.11.2024 2

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COP29: Developing Countries Other Than China need Around $ 2.4 trillion Each Year for Climate Action by 2030

New Delhi/ Bengaluru: As negotiations on finances rage on at the ongoing UN climate talks at Baku, Azerbaijan, a report published at COP29 on...

15.11.2024 10

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Trump Is President Again, and It’s Bad News For the Climate

12.11.2024 2

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COP29 Kicks Off at Baku, Nations Agree to Carbon Credit Standards on Day 1

12.11.2024 7

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Deaths, Destruction on the Rise Due to Extreme Weather Events: Grim Statistics in India Climate Report 2024

Bengaluru: More than 3,200 people dead. As much as 3.2 million hectares of crops damaged, around 2.3 lakh houses and buildings destroyed, and more...

09.11.2024 3

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MHA Yet to Disburse Full Compensation for Manipur Violence Victims: RTI

New Delhi: In late May of 2023, Union home minister Amit Shah visited Imphal amidst ethnic violence that is yet to die down and promised...

07.11.2024 4

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Toxins in Kodo Millet Crop Caused 10 Elephant Deaths in Madhya Pradesh: Toxicology Report

Bengaluru: It is now confirmed: fungal toxins in the standing kodo millet crop that elephants ate, near Madhya Pradesh’s Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve,...

06.11.2024 10

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Blowing Hot Air: Countries’ Official Pledges Are Not on Track to Arrest Global Temperatures to Agreed Limits

New Delhi: As global temperatures rise, climate change has most of the world in turmoil with extreme weather events including intense rains,...

30.10.2024 1

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Law Made 'Toothless,' Will Take Union Govt to Task: What SC Said on Delhi’s Worsening Air Quality

New Delhi/Bengaluru: The Supreme Court on October 23 reacted strongly to the air quality in New Delhi which has worsened over the past week,...

24.10.2024 1

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Wangchuk on Day 8 of Indefinite Fast: 60 Supporters Detained From Outside Ladakh Bhawan

New Delhi: On October 13, the Delhi Police detained around 60 of Sonam Wangchuk’s supporters who were fasting peacefully in solidarity outside...

13.10.2024 3

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Wangchuk and Climate Marchers Brought to Rajghat, Released

Bengaluru: On the evening of Wednesday (October 2) amidst heavy security deployment, the Delhi police released detained climate activist Sonam...

02.10.2024 6

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As Wangchuk and Demonstrators Go on Indefinite Fast, Their Arrests Decried as ‘Undeclared Emergency’

New Delhi: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and around 80 others, who have been detained in police stations across Delhi for participating in a...

01.10.2024 3

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Two Years On, How Is India’s Project Cheetah Faring?

Bengaluru: September 17, is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday. It also marks the second anniversary of Project Cheetah, India’s ambitious...

18.09.2024 4

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Amid Concerns by Experts, Kuno Cheetahs May Soon Be Set Free into the Wild

Bengaluru: India’s African cheetahs and their cubs may soon be free to roam the Kuno wilds. According to news reports , the Cheetah Project...

26.08.2024 1

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West Bengal: Elephant Attacked by 'Hula Party' With Flaming Iron Stick Dies

Bengaluru: Despite state forest department officials treating its wounds, a female elephant – that was part of an elephant herd that strayed into...

17.08.2024 3

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Will Leave 'No Stone Unturned' to Fulfill Kerala's Requests, Says Modi After Surveying Landslide-hit Wayanad

New Delhi/ Bengaluru: The whole country and the Union government is with Kerala and the people affected by the Wayanad landslides, said Prime...

10.08.2024 3

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Loud Thunderclap-like Sound Echoes from Underground in Wayanad; Houses Shake, Windows Rattle

Bengaluru: On Friday (August 9) morning, residents in and around Wayanad’s Nenmeni and Ambalavayal villages reported hearing a loud,...

09.08.2024 3

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Nightmare in Wayanad: Torrential Rains Triggered Landslides But Climate Change May Not Be the Sole Culprit

Bengaluru: Unrecognisable dead bodies. A raging river carrying some of them, even body parts, to another district downstream. Sobbing families...

04.08.2024 4

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Kerala CM Contests Amit Shah's Claim That His State Was Warned of Heavy Rain Week Before Landslides

Bengaluru: The Union government gave a warning to the Kerala government of heavy rain and the possibility of landslides on July 23 – as early as...

31.07.2024 2

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Budget 2024-25 Addresses Some Climate Concerns but Misses Many Others

Kochi: Tackling climate-change driven challenges found mention in the Union Budget 2024-25 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July...

24.07.2024 3

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Climate Action, and Also Contradictions: NITI Aayog’s SDG India Index 2024 Report is a Mixed Bag

New Delhi/ Palakkad: On July 12, the NITI Aayog released the SDG India Index 2023-24 report. The Index scores India, and each of its states and...

19.07.2024 2

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