-Mongabay.com * Women are often called as vulnerable victims of climate change as well as integral to climate change adaptation, but even then Government policies overlook the oppression they face. * To address it, the latest report by ICIMOD has suggested a series of measures such as the Government allocating resources, financial and human, for gender-responsive interventions, and creation of mechanisms to ensure the promotion of women’s rights. * The report also highlighted...

-News18.com Considering how Governments have handed forests to destructive industries, why don't these wildlife-first organisations demand the eviction of the Forest Departments from forest lands? Imagine people who live in clearings inside an extensive dense forest, cultivating paddy, harvesting grass, bamboo, and mushrooms, and hunting the occasional deer. They stay awake at night, beating drums to tell their elephant brothers not to come for their hard-earned crop. Once the harvest is over,...

-The Telegraph The party dubbed false the Government’s claim that over 10 crore families will get insurance cover up to Rs 5 lakh for a premium of only Rs 1,100 a year The Congress on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-hyped health scheme, Ayushman Bharat, was built on the wrong foundation, allowed corporates and private hospitals to mint money and incentivised fraud. The party also dubbed false the Government’s claim that...

-Scroll.in They observed that data unfavourable to the Government was getting revised or suppressed on the basis of questionable methodologies. A group of economists and social scientists on Thursday urged the Indian Government to restore the integrity of statistical organisations as their national and global reputation was “at stake”. Any data unfavourable to the Government “seems to get revised or suppressed on the basis of some questionable methodology”, they said, citing some...

-ThePrint.in The scholars slammed the Modi govt for ‘political influence’, pointing at the decision to withhold NSSO jobs data and to alter GDP data from the UPA era. New Delhi: A group of 108 economists and social scientists came together Thursday to protest against what they said was the Narendra Modi Government’s move to revise or withhold the release of unfavourable economic data. The NDA Government has been under fire for its...