A study estimates that workers have lost income by 83%, compelling them to borrow money for survival
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 24, 2023)
MGNREGA graft: Social audit finds irregularities worth Rs 54 lakh in Rajasthan
Online child abuse escalated in India during pandemic: CRY
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 17, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the ...
Tax the wealthy: 2 billion people can be lifted from poverty by levying the super-rich, says Oxfam
Gap between the rich and the poor broadened over the past two years
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 16, 2023)
Ageing world: Elderly population expected to double over the next 3 decades; are our policies mature enough to address it?
Gender inequalities persist into old age; women’s lower levels of formal labour market participation, shorter working lives & lower ...
DTE Exclusive: ‘Shamlat’ lands hold key to Dalit empowerment; alleviation of rural poverty in Punjab
Dalits, who form 31.94% of Punjab’s population, own just 3.5% of the state’s land
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 11, 2023)
Domestic refiners fear losses as RBD palm oil import increases
Last year, capacity of domestic refining industry was 38-40 million tonnes but utilisation was only 18 million tonnes
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 10, 2023)
Will India officially be poverty free in 2023?
National Statistical Office rolling out consumption expenditure sample survey; may note impact of central schemes adding to people’s income
Mali Parbat bauxite mine: District judge presides over public hearing for EC but residents allege ‘mind games’
District administration slapped notices on 40 people and deployed paramilitary forces days ahead of hearing
Gairan land encroachment in Maharashtra: Official surveys do not always show the real picture, say those affected
Land has not been demarcated correctly in many villages; or residential land has been so insufficient that houses have ...
MoEFCC refuses to put new forest conservation rules on hold, says do not dilute forest rights act
New rules do away with Gram Sabha consent, National Commission on Scheduled Tribes had flagged last year in letter ...
Mandatory digital attendance for MGNREGS will destroy it, activists warn
Lack of access to technology will discourage workers, drive them to work for cheaper wages outside of scheme
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 2, 2023)
Dying for ration: No health aid for those without PDS cards
Ground report from Jharkhand villages shows many pending applications; Rejected applicants told quota for beneficiaries full
President Lula calls Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 actions ‘genocide’, to reinstate Bolsa Familia
Veteran leftist leader aims for zero deforestation in the Amazon; zero greenhouse gas emissions in electricity matrix
2022 too short, too far: 10 stunning galleries by DTE this year
Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022
Dying for ration: Tribal beneficiaries of Jharkhand PDS don’t have salt, surviving on plain boiled rice
Ration cards for many cancelled; Landless villagers migrate to city for work
Centre has withheld Rs 7,500 crore in MGNREGA funds to West Bengal for a year, claims report
MGNREGA workers in Bengal not paid wages of Rs 2744 crore for a year, report by Libtech India found
Dying for ration: 7-year wait for Jharkhand couple to receive PDS benefits
Village residents say ration cards of many cancelled, including those from Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups
Railways allege state transmission authorities delayed power purchase under open access in 2017: CAG
West Central Railways incurred extra expenditure of Rs 75.10 crore during the period from March 15, 2016 to January ...
