Most Bengal cities faced worsening air pollution in 2024, Durgapur and Asansol among global toppers
Air pollution combat funding increased, so did air pollution
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India at 79
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India at 79: Free India followed western model of agriculture, rapid growth became the buzz word and diversity erased
- by Anshuman Das
- August 28, 2025
More than ten thousand farmers commit suicide every year in India, an agrarian country
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India at 79: India’s policymakers and industrialists have not learnt from Bhopal disaster, period
- by Joydeep Gupta
- August 23, 2025
Eight decades after independence, India is a leader in industrial disasters among developing countries and nobody is concerned
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India at 79: Enough acts to address environmental issues but not enough action on ground
- by Biswajit Mukherjee
- August 23, 2025
Judiciary plays a pivotal role but politicians stand spoilers; social awareness poor
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India at 79: Air pollution does not discriminate, but social inequities do
- by Anumita Roy Chowdhury
- August 20, 2025
Air pollution is a public health crisis. Out of the 8.1 million deaths triggered by air pollution worldwide annually, about 2.1 million deaths – a quarter – are reported in India. This imposes an enormous health and development burden. While policies and programmes are evolving to upscale planning and technology solutions, these fall short of
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India at 79: Forest policy blowing one way, law drifting another, and practice somewhere in between.
- by Padam Parkash Bhojvaid
- August 15, 2025
India’s forests—spread across more than one-fifth of its landmass—are not mere stretches of green. They are the lungs that filter the air we breathe, the water towers that feed our rivers, the granaries of biodiversity, and the quiet cathedrals of our cultural soul. Yet, their governance has often been like sailing a vast ship without
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India at 79: Country needs freedom from its growth obsessed developmental model
- by Harjeet Singh
- August 15, 2025
On the 79th anniversary of India's independence, as the tricolour flutters with pride;
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Dear Didi, please save Kolkata’s trams; urged an Australian tram activist
- by Jayanta Basu
- March 31, 2023
In an open letter to Mamata Banerjee, an Australian tram worker & activist seeks for Kolkata’s tram infrastructure the attention it deserves Roberto D’Andrea Dear Didi, I write to you from Melbourne. I am a retired tram driver-cum-conductor and activist. I was also part of the group that initiated the Melbourne-Kolkata Tramjatra all of 29 years
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Four elephants killed in North Bengal forest during army firing practice; confirms Bengal’s Forest Minister
- by Jayanta Basu
- March 31, 2023
A still shot grab from a locally circulated video claimed about one of the dead elephants. The Plurals could not verify the authenticity of the claim The state forest department has confirmed that around mid-March, four elephants were killed by army mortar shelling in and around Mahananda wildlife sanctuary. The alleged incident occurred during practice
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IPCC report: Unless global carbon emission is halved by 2030, areas like Sundarbans to become most vulnerable
- by Jayanta Basu
- March 20, 2023
An UN report on global climate change released on Monday at Interlaken, Switzerland has accepted that the world is hardly 7 years away from a 1.5 degree temperature rise over pre industrialized level , that can prove devastating to the world in general and coastal areas like Sundarbans in particular. The report, a copy of