-Newsclick.in Farmlands have developed cracks and paddy saplings are either drying up or turning yellow. Patna: Kamlesh Yadav and Dhirendra Singh are among hundreds of thousands of farmers in Bihar who are uncertain about paddy sowing during the Kharif season due to poor monsoon. “June-end is the best time for paddy transplantation but our farmlands are dry due to poor monsoon. We expected good rainfall like last year and before when heavy rains...

-Down to Earth The diversification of battery technology is necessary for the rapidly growing Indian energy storage market; SIBs can lead to this diversification Dialogues for climate action have accelerated in India. The country is strengthening its policies for climate action and emerging as a global leader, whether by keeping energy transition as one of the four high priority agendas in the Union Budget 2022 or setting ambitious targets at the 26th...

-Scroll.in The number of civil and criminal cases filed by women across all states is low. The 2012 gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi led to a significant expansion of public awareness about crimes against women. Despite this, the data reflect a culture of reluctance or fear when it comes to women reporting crime against themselves and the lack of avenues for women to be able to file...

-The Telegraph Government had alleged that 'weight of indicators in which the country was performing well has been reduced' Calcutta: A senior researcher of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, which prepared the global Environmental Performance Index 2022 report that put India at the bottom of the 180 countries assessed, has defended its findings against criticism from the Indian government. Martin Wolf, principal investigator of the report, rebutted the Indian environment,...

-The Telegraph In attendance at the Jantar Mantar rally were Jairam Ramesh and Ajay Maken of the Congress, which has been accused of lukewarm opposition to the verdict A civil society struggling to come to terms with the Supreme Court verdict in the Zakia Jafri case hit the streets on Monday against the arrest of human rights activist Teesta Setalvad and whistleblower police officer R.B. Sreekumar by Gujarat police. During a protest on...