It has been proven time and again that large 'development' projects, involving the blasting of fragile hills and constraining the flow of rivers, cause huge loss of lives and livelihoods in the Himalayan region.

To create favourable conditions for next year's assembly elections, the saffron party used unfair methods to reverse the trend that reflected popular will.

Violence, intimidation and unfair practices have played an important role and should be investigated.

Mohan contributed greatly to biomedical engineering and transport planning, Keswani was a journalist who warned of the Bhopal gas tragedy and Bahuguna was a noted environmentalist.

While landless farm workers and landless peasants outnumber land-owning farmers, the former are almost entirely absent in the policy and policy-debates on farming.

Now, more than ever, a careful watch must be kept on social sector spending, especially because the Covid crisis offers an opportunity to explain possible expenditure cuts.

If the impact of this scheme should not be underestimated, it should not be overestimated either.

Warnings sound by the UN and its organs point to a food crisis which is worse than any seen in the last 50 years.

If austerity measures are to be enforced, a good place to start would be some of the more controversial Centre and state projects.

As non-COVID patients face higher mortality rates due to lockdown-related inaccessibility to healthcare, it’s possible that lockdowns aren’t reducing even COVID-19 deaths.

Several women who work for the state government on campaigns like the Swachh Bharat Mission have not been paid in 14 months.

Government policies compensate only the landowner, while the sharecropper, who has borne much of the expense and labour for the crop, gets nothing.

For the implementation of welfare schemes and proper fiscal decentralisation, the Planning Commission is crucial.

Caught in a quagmire of legislations, most construction workers of a particular colony have had no money to deal with illnesses and daily needs.

Their message to their followers was clear – Hindus and Muslims had to fight together for their country

The construction of roads and pathways, as well as drainage, has been badly neglected and waterlogging becomes a huge problem in the area during the rainy season.

His death anniversary, September 13, should be marked as the Day of Justice for Political Prisoners.

It is possible to integrate the objectives of protecting forests and sustaining the livelihoods of tribal and forest-dweller communities.