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As told to Parliament (December 2, 2025): Over Rs 68,000 crore released to states & UTs in 2025-26 under MGNREGS

India, Dec. 2 -- Parliament was informed of major updates on rural employment funds, crop damage, women workers in agriculture, and satellite-based monitoring. Maharashtra reported extensive losses d... Read More


How e-buses, GCC model & digital technology are reshaping state transport undertakings

India, Dec. 2 -- India's State Transport Undertakings are adopting electric buses, GCC wet lease model and digital technologies. These changes reduce capital costs, shift operational roles to private... Read More


Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 1, 2025)

India, Dec. 2 -- NGT-constituted committee flags encroachments and broken structures at the Betwa river's origin in Jhiri, Raisen. Report urges protection of all natural water sources feeding the Bet... Read More


India's silent genocide:Why toxic air is our greatest constitutional crisis

India, Dec. 1 -- India faces a nationwide air pollution emergency that transcends Delhi. It violates Article 21's guarantee of life and dignity. The situation demands urgent judicial intervention an... Read More


Tanzania launches major livestock vaccination drive to protect rural livelihoods

India, Dec. 1 -- Tanzania has rolled out a nationwide livestock vaccination campaign targeting millions of cattle, goats, sheep and chickens. The five-year drive aims to curb zoonotic and transbounda... Read More


Hidden resource

India, Dec. 1 -- The 2025 southwest monsoon brought to Punjab its worst flood in four decades. In late August, all the major rivers that flow through the state flooded simultaneously-perhaps for the f... Read More


Flattened frontiers

India, Dec. 1 -- Ravines of Chambal evoke images of deep gullies along the Chambal river, long infamous as hideouts of dacoits. Today, however, these gorges face a different threat-encroachment by tho... Read More


Rights in transit

India, Dec. 1 -- In the first week of October, Kalahandi, a district in Odisha dominated by tribal communities, was awash with celebration. After four months, gram sabhas of Borapadar and Pipal Chhapa... Read More


Once Asia's largest cattle fair, Bihar's Sonepur Pashu Mela now hardly has anything to do with livestock

India, Dec. 1 -- "It is no more a Pashu Mela (livestock fair). Things have changed here. Now it is a cattle fair only in name," said Guddu Singh, who owns a shop on the main road close to the Sonepur ... Read More


New Peru blight-resistant potato variety to be adapted in East Africa

India, Dec. 1 -- A breakthrough blight-resistant potato variety, CIP-Asiryq, is set to be domesticated in East Africa. It is expected in Kenya within a few years. It promises to reduce costly fungic... Read More