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The Sundarbans: India must protect the world’s largest delta from a dystopian future, and now -Mukut Biswas

-Down to Earth We must get out of ‘beyond disaster response’ mode in the Sundarbans and take urgent action to save it The world seems to pay attention to the Sundarbans only when catastrophe hits. In the aftermath of both supercyclones Amphan and Yaas that ravaged the Sundarbans, non-profits, celebrities, clubs and Citizens had organised several crowd funding initiatives to get the financial support to distribute relief materials to the cyclone victims. It...

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Heavy burden

-The Telegraph A significant factor behind legal pendency is the number of judicial vacancies, especially in lower courts — more than 5,000 vacancies over the last decade That justice delayed is justice denied is a reality with which Indians are all too familiar. A decade ago, India already had the world’s largest backlog of cases; the total has now climbed to a monumental 4.6 crore. The pandemic, predictably, has exacerbated the problem,...

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Bengal government confirms Indian Citizenship of Gangadhar Pramanik -Snehamoy Chakraborty

-The Telegraph The migrant worker was kept for over three years in a detention centre in Assam after he was declared a 'foreigner' Bolpur (Birbhum): A team of Bengal government officials visited Radhanagar village in Bankura on Friday and confirmed the Indian Citizenship of Gangadhar Pramanik, who was kept for over three years in a detention centre in Assam after he was declared a “foreigner”. “We have checked the land documents and details...

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Supreme Court to hear pleas for independent probe

-PTI/ The Hindu Pleas are related to reports of alleged snooping by government agencies on eminent Citizens, politicians and scribes The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on September 13 a batch of pleas seeking an independent probe into the alleged snooping on certain people in India involving Pegasus, the Israeli spyware. A three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana had on September 7 granted more time to the Centre to decide...

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Hurry! Applications for the 3rd round of NFI Fellowships for Independent Journalists reporting in Hindi language are now open till September 28th, 2021

India faced a second and worse wave of COVID-19 pandemic a few months back. The unemployment problem is looming large in the country. At this juncture, the country requires journalism to tell the stories of courage, of loss and grief and also of resilience, of the state of preparedness and about the efforts being made by communities, individuals, civil society and government. For better media coverage of critical issues like human...

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