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UP Elections: Amid Livelihood Crisis, Which Party Will Nishads Trust This Time ? -Abdul Alim Jafri

-Newsclick.in The Nishad community says their people are no more awarded with Fishing and sand mining contracts, which is posing a major threat to their traditional livelihood. Sonbhadra: On April 3, 2020, when the nationwide lockdown was in place to prevent the spread of coronavirus, Anil Kumar Sahni, 26, had stepped out with his cycle cart to sell vegetables. As he reached the road passing through his hamlet, he was caught by...

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Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop immunity to World Bank

-Counterview.net Economic, legal, diplomatic and civil society experts – including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and former Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank – have urged the United States Supreme Court to go back to the case Budha Ismail Jam, et al v. IFC , (Tata Mundra case) concerning immunity from the suit for the World Bank Group and foreign nations. They said, the immunity decision in the...

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India’s ‘Ghost Villages’: A Changing Environment Is Forcing People To Leave Home -Manish Kumar

-The Wire Science * Several houses along the eastern Indian coast have been impacted by constant sea erosion, cyclones and other environmental factors. Those living there have abandoned these houses. * Some living in these vulnerable areas, close to the Bay of Bengal, voluntarily moved as the tidal waves hit their homes, while others were resettled by the government. * Inter-state migration from such coastal hotspots has also been reported from Odisha, Andhra...

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In Two Corners of Bengal’s Coast, ‘Fire’ and Water Hold Women Hostage -Soumashree Sarkar and Pawanjot Kaur

-TheWire.in A ground report from two Fishing villages, one in East Medinipur and the other in the Sundarban, reflects how various expressions of climate change leave a mark on health and wellbeing, especially of women. Jharkhali/ Nijkasba, West Bengal: It is easy to consider the south of West Bengal as an unwieldy side of the world that is acutely stricken by the climate crisis. Buzzwords like ‘salinity’, ‘storm surge’, ‘water-level rise’ and ‘ocean...

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Fishery sops: India rejects WTO draft, sees advanced nation bias -Amiti Sen

-The Hindu Business Line Says small fishers need government protection; advanced nations must stop subsidising high-sea Fishing India has rejected the latest draft text on curbing fishery subsidies floated by the WTO earlier this week for not adequately addressing its concerns on food security and livelihood of small fishers while including provisions that could help advanced countries perpetuate their huge doles for long-distance Fishing. Please click here to read more.  ...

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