जन आंदोलन से रुका 4000 पेड़ों का कटान

केंद्र सरकार की एक योजना के तहत इस रोड को फोर लेन किया जाना है और इसके लिए सरकार ने सैकड़ों पेड़ों की बलि ...

Ecuador annuls austerity decree, restores fuel subsidy

Decree 833 will be replaced with a new one that contains mechanisms to focus resources on who needs it most, said President Lenín Moreno

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दिन में नारेबाजी और रात को आंदोलन के गीत गाकर धरनास्थल पर इकट्ठा है सैकड़ों आदिवासी 

अवैध खनन के खिलाफ धरने पर हैं 25 गांव के लोग

क्षेत्र में अवैध खनन, ब्लास्टिंग, ओवर लोडिंग और वायु प्रदूषण के खिलाफ ढाई माह से धरने दे रहे हैं 

Laws are chipping away at democracy around the world

Trouble is brewing around the world, say experts

Revolt of the rich and the poor

When a recent report says 26 people now own the same wealth as the world's poorest half and the IMF chief flags risks associated with India’…

Rewind 2018: The land debate

Land is finite and always a contested issue. We bring you the key developments in the sector that is in the middle of infrastructure development …

Time up for reinvention?

If 2018 was the year of revolt, 2019 should be the year of realisation that we must change the way we do business

Rewind 2018: How farming hogged headlines, yet not spotlight

The country saw a host of agricultural protests, policies, disputes and distress in 2018; here’s all of it

Two-day farmers' protest in Delhi; demand for 21-day joint Parliament session

Lakhs of farmers and farm labourers arrive in Delhi from across the country on November 29 to demand bills to guarantee fair price for …

Ganga and the death of its crusader

Read Down To Earth’s upcoming issue for a detailed analysis of the current state of the Ganga

Tribal farmers to harvest second bamboo crop after earning right to sell

Here’s the success story of people in 16 villages of Rajasthan who put up a fight against the district administration to be able to sell …

Poor post-harvest storage, transportation facilities to cost farmers dearly

If procurement of farm produce increases with the announcement of a new MSP, farmers’ post-harvest losses may increase manifold

Farmers, Dalits, ex-servicemen call for ‘Jail Bharo’ and ‘BJP Quit India’ movements

All of them launch a protest today to make their demands heard

Kudankulam plant will continue to operate despite failing to set up safe storage for spent fuel

NPCIL has missed 2018 deadline for building AFR facility to store spent nuclear fuel, which is currently kept within the power plant

Noida landfill protests: Confusion among officials troubles residents

While a two-year-old response to an RTI query said the site had been cancelled for the waste-to-energy project, a recent public notice called it …

Farm income can go up by Rs 1,939 crore on one condition

India can achieve this if it replaces 1 per cent of the area under food grains with horticulture

One year after Mandsaur, farmers remain a disenfranchised lot; demands not heard

Besides loan waiver and MSP+50 per cent as remuneration, the farmers are now demanding fixed income

After a 23-year-long battle, Tamil Nadu's Sterlite plant finally shuts down, permanently

On Monday evening, the state government passed a government order to shut down Vedanta group's Serlite copper smelting plant permanently

Anti-Sterlite stir: Tension continues as kin of those killed don’t get dead bodies

Activists say the government plans to cremate the protestors who died in police firing on its own

Anti-Sterlite stir: Parts of Tuticorin return to normal, but activists say it’s far from over

Despite a court order, ban on internet has not been lifted and activists claim police are harassing people

Madras HC stays expansion of Sterlite copper smelter; power supply cut

Protests against the expansion of the smelter have been going on for three months

Why political parties love schemes that benefit individual voters

Popular welfare schemes will be the focus of upcoming elections, but the unilateral focus to provide benefits to individual voter leads to less …

Rajasthan faces farmers' ire for arresting their leaders ahead of indefinite protest

The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee says that the state government arrested farmer leaders on Tuesday to preempt an …

Budget 2018: Time for promoting sustainable agriculture with focus on improving productivity of major crops

Continuing huge spending on major irrigation projects will not contribute to doubling of farmers’ income