COVID-19 May Prove Fatal To Those Exposed To Pollution
According to the experts, the health hazard inflicted on people by long-standing air pollution is likely to impact the fatality rate emerging from Covid-19 infections. Polluted air is known to…
Rohin Kumar
Breathing Fire: Toxic fires of Jharia spell death and disease for villagers
A significant proportion of coal production in India is credited to Jharia mines in Jharkhand state in the east of the country. For the communities in Jharia, coking coal is…
Toxic Air: Pollution from fossil fuels costs 5.4% of India’s GDP annually
(Coal fired power plants in India have repeatedly missed the emission deadline set by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change) For the first time, Greenpeace Southeast Asia…
National Clean Air Programme requires teeth and grit to make a difference
Reports cite that India’s carbon emissions are growing at a faster rate than the United States of America or China. The World Air Quality Report 2018 prepared by Greenpeace revealed…
“Government must have zero tolerance policy towards the polluters,” says experts
Out of total capacity of 166472 MW which has to install FGD by December 2022, only 1320 MW has been done till now As India continues to grapple with unprecedented…
‘Debt’ laden power producers compromising with air pollution health threats
Little less than 2% of the power plants comply with the emissions norms set by MoEFCC This year, on November 2, 2019, due to severe air pollution, a health emergency…
India: Bt-brinjal – Targeting Farmers
Around last one month, Ishar Saini’s life has not been normal. He has been in limelight from the day activists group alleged chances of Bt-brinjal being grown on his farm.…
Stubble Burning and Neo-liberal absurdity
Mandeep, 23, completed his graduation in political science from Punjab University in 2015 before he became regular assistant to his farmer father. His father Murari Choudhary owns 10 acre of…
Attack on Idea of University continues…
Amartya Sen recently during his book launch ‘Collective Choice and Social Wefare’ very aptly pointed out, “India does not have world class universities and the climate of fear (in Indian…
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