RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch on Wednesday voiced its concerns over "very limited efforts" unveiled in the Union Budget towards "creation of employment" and "promotion of small scale industry". However, it hailed the overall exercise as "growth oriented" with sufficient push for development of infrastructure of various kinds including digital.
The volume of pesticide use and exposure is occurring on a scale that is without precedent and world-historical in nature. Agrichemicals are now pervasive as they cycle through bodies and environments. The herbicide glyphosate has been a major factor in driving this increase in use. These statements appear in a 2021 paper ‘Growing Agrichemical Ubiquity: […]
A fact-finding team formed by the Editors Guild of India accuses the state police and administration of displaying a "lack of professionalism and integrity" in dealing with the violence.
Key Body Demands Complete Ban on Glyphosate in India counterpunch.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from counterpunch.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In October 2020, Pesticide Action Network India and PAN Asia Pacific released the report ‘State of Glyphosate Use in India’. It concluded that the use of the world’s most widely used herbicide is rampant. Despite this, it noted that its disturbing effects on the environment and the health of farmworkers and the public are not […]