-The Tribune SDO fears damage to bundhs & stone studs may flood residential areas, agri land Yamunanagar: Despite efforts of the district authorities to stop illegal mining, the activity is going on unabated in the Pathrala rivulet in Jaitpur and Nagli villages, close to bundhs and stone studs built by the Irrigation Department to protect residential areas and agricultural land. On the complaint of Vinod Kumar, Sub Divisional Officer (SDO), Water Services Division,...

-PTI/ Newsclick.in The Meghalaya government has recently submitted the action taken report to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) after the latter registered a case over the high number of maternal and newborn deaths in the state during the pandemic. Shillong: As many as 877 newborn babies and 61 mothers have died as pregnant women refused to get admitted to hospitals for institutional delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic due to fears of...

-The Telegraph Mandal politics must be revamped, not renounced Is Mandal politics on its deathbed? This is the question that many analysts have asked after the Bharatiya Janata Party routed the Samajwadi Party in the recent Uttar Pradesh elections. It was the fourth consecutive electoral drubbing for the SP at the hands of the BJP in the Narendra Modi era. Mandal politics cannot defeat the BJP, and the SP needs to finally move...

-Down to Earth Land has risen approximately 10 metres in height and 700 metres in width at a lignite mining site near the Bhuteshwar-Bhumbhali village Environmentalists in Gujarat have expressed concern over the rising of land in a village in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district. They have blamed mining for lignite being carried out by the state government in the vicinity. Land has risen in the period March 9-March 17, 2022 at the Gujarat Mineral...

-Newsclick.in The Forest Rights Act aims to reverse the historical injustice meted out to tribals, ensure their land tenure and livelihood. Jaipur: Vishram had applied twice for a patta under the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006, but without success. A member of the Bhil community in Rajasthan, Vishram, who belongs to Rajasthan’s Talwara village, is always apprehensive about the future.    “We have been staying at the same place for three generations. Though...