-Newsclick.in Contrary to the claims made in the official report about increased forest cover in India, experts revealed that data was manipulated to create a different picture than reality. Nimli (Rajasthan): Amid increasing challenges of climate change, it may surprise many that India is manipulating data to show increasing forest cover and misrepresenting what forest in the real sense should be. Experts have questioned it and raised the issue of how the...
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Over three billion people vulnerable to climate change: IPCC report
-IndiaToday.in The world faces unavoidable multiple climate hazards over the next two decades with global warming of 1.5 degrees Celcius. The United Nations on Monday released the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that stated that 3.6 billion people are highly vulnerable to climate change. The report identifying human-induced action as the prime cause of climate change stated that it is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives...
More »The river in northern India being hollowed out for concrete -Monika Mondal
-TheThirdPole.net The plight of a small Himalayan river is echoed all over Asia, as communities lose lives and property to the ‘unscientific and unsustainable’ mining of riverbeds It was around 5 AM on 19 October 2021, dark, drizzling and cold in the foothills of the Himalayas. “A noise woke up my wife,” says farmer Gopal Datt Sharma in Indirapuri village, near the city of Haldwani in Uttarakhand, northern India. She went out...
More »Refund fine, restore seized properties of anti-CAA protesters, SC tells UP Govt
-The Pioneer New Delhi/ Lucknow: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Uttar Pradesh Government to refund the fine and restore the attached properties of the alleged anti-CAA protesters for causing damage to public and private assets in December 2019. Terming it as a case of “unjust enrichment”, the court said the State can recover the damages under the new law, once it is established before the claims tribunal that public and...
More »"Hijab Bans in Schools Violate Religious Freedom": US On Karnataka Row -Debanish Achom
-NDTV.com Rashad Hussain, the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, or IRF, tweeted "hijab bans in schools violate religious freedom" New Delhi: A US government body that monitors and Reports on religious freedom abroad has criticised Karnataka amid the row over Muslim students' demand for wearing hijab on campus. Rashad Hussain, the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, or IRF, tweeted "hijab bans in schools violate religious freedom", referring to the...
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