-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...

-The Hindu Business Line Goyal meets industry associations to assess demand-supply situation, alternative plans Representatives of India’s edible oil industry met Commerce and Food Minister Piyush Goyal on FriDay to discuss ways to check the galloping prices of the cooking medium as disruption of supplies of sunflower oil due to the on-going Russia-Ukraine conflict threatens to make the situation worse. The meeting, called a Day after the Union Food Secretary’s discussion with industry...

-Newsclick.in On May 24, 2021, poor tribal peasants were shocked when they got an executive order informing them that the period of land leases given to them in Sirsi Dam foothills was over on March 31, and renewal stood cancelled. Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh): Talking about tribals and farmers in present Day Mirzapur means inviting gloomy stories weaved into everyDay sorrows and sufferings. Gone are the Days when the areas inhabited by them...

-Down to Earth Farmers in the state are not getting urea; if they are, it is at almost double the price Urea prices are skyrocketing in Chhattisgarh due to the government’s decisions these Days. So bad is the situation that farmers are being forced to buy urea on the black market and then cultivate paddy at a higher cost and bear the losses. Due to this, farmers from Raipur, Mahasamund, Bilaspur and...

-The Telegraph The bench asked additional solicitor-general to give details to rebut allegations that jabs were being administered forcibly to people, including school kids Covid-19 vaccines are not mandatory, not even for children, the Centre told the Supreme Court on WednesDay. The bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao and B.R. Gavai, however, asked additional solicitor-general Aishwarya Bhati to come out with details to rebut allegations that vaccines were being administered forcibly to people,...