India, the brutal effects of Cyclone Amphan in West Bengal won’t fade quickly
Cyclone Amphan caused massive destruction in the Indian state of West Bengal, devouring lives, livelihoods and ecosystems that won’t easily be recovered.
Gurvinder Singh
Contributor
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India’s coronavirus lockdown causes deaths among migrant labourers forced to return home
In the midst of India’s coronavirus lockdown, two dozen people lost their lives in a desperate bid to return home: migrant labourers forced to leave the cities where they worked once starvation began knocking at their doors.
India shies away from banning single-use plastics on Gandhi’s birthday
The plastic industry heaved a sigh of relief while green activists felt cheated as the Indian government stayed away from implementing a blanket ban on single-use plastics on Gandhi’s birthday.
Planting trees for gun licences: how an Indian district is tackling the water crisis
Desperate times call for desperate measures. A district in the Indian state of Punjab that has been reeling due to an extreme water crisis has found a peculiar way to deal with it. The inhabitants of the northern state’s Ferozepur district have to plant at least ten tree saplings to obtain a firearms licence. It