Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 9, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 8, 2024)
Simply Put: Of textbooks and reality
DTE Coverage: Voting without voters
Down To Earth reports from four states on migrant voters and the upcoming Lok Sabha elections
Voting without voters: West Bengal may see migrants flocking home to vote & document citizenship status amid CAA worries
Migrants likely to influence fate of elections in state; CAA cloud advantage to Trinamool but BJP to leverage governance failure that led to …
Analysis: What does the new Supreme Court judgment mean for climate action in India?
Supreme Court says right to be free from adverse effects of climate change part of fundamental rights to life and equality
Bhopal : A Toxic Legacy
Simply Put: Elephant in the room
Simply Put: Voting without voters
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 4, 2024)
Neocolonial Raj has taken root in India
Inequality has been widening rapidly in the country since the 1990s
Voting without voters: In Uttar Pradesh, areas with low turnout are hubs of migrant workers
EC plans to reach out to migrant workers via postcards to encourage them to vote, but it may be too little, too late
Simply Put: Stable salary
People from which Indian states migrate the most? Answers will surprise you
Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh have the highest overall migration rate according to a recent ILO report
Suspect claims in Teva’s suit against Cipla
The US Federal Trade Commission has warned the Israeli drug firm its patents are wrongful as it sues Cipla aggressively
Voting without voters: Migrant workers in Odisha’s Nuapada unable to afford trip home to cast ballot
About 75,000 workers in district are migrant labourers and 63,000 of them eligible voters
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 28, 2024)
DTE Coverage: How halt in MGNREGA work affected rural Bengal
Many working-age men have been forced to migrate in search of work, leaving women, children & the elderly behind in ‘ghost villages’
Simply Put: April Fools Day 2024
Voting without voters: Uttar Pradesh migrant workers to be home for paddy transplantation next, may skip Lok Sabha polls
Migrant workers came back home for Holi, won't be able to come back for the crucial electoral process
Podcast: Colonialists used starvation as a tool of oppression
Before the colonialists arrived in North America and Bengal, both regions were thriving with healthy, wealthy communities. Here's what happened next
Undue detainments, confiscations & restrictions: Shut out of normal participation at WTO, civil societies claim
Write to director general about WTO’s failure to ensure safety and rights of participants
For a decade, earnings of regular salaried & self-employed Indians have been declining: ILO
At the all-India level, 40.8% of regular workers and 51.9% of casual workers did not receive the average daily minimum wage prescribed for …
Voting without voters: Bihar migrant workers forced to sacrifice ballot rights due to financial strain
Require special provisions, free trips home to participate in democratic process
In rural West Bengal, debts mount and socioeconomic fabric collapses in absence of MGNREGS
Local economy hangs by a thread as residents desperately demand revival of the rural employment scheme