Junior doctors protest mandatory rural posting for PG admission

Health officials say if medical graduates have problems with poor infrastructure they should demand better facilities instead of making it an …

Agriculture, fisheries take spotlight at WTO meet in Abu Dhabi

India backs permanent solution for public stockholding of food grains even as developing nations attack it

Police cracks down on retrenched UCIL mine workers in Jharkhand

Most of the protesting workers are tribal people who were displaced from their land by the Bandhuhurang mining project

Farm laws effect: Farmers’ protests in India increased 38% in 2020 after 3 years of decline

Number of protests increased in 12 states, with Jharkhand leading the tally

The saddest Twitter got: Blame it on racism

Words such as ‘arrested’, ‘murder’, ‘violence’ have surged on microblogging site since the killing of George Floyd

Haryana hurdle: Paddy procurement season on, but farmers have no buyers

Crop moisture to logistics, government officials rejecting paddy, claimed farmers 

Farmers affected by Karur’s dye industry to exercise NOTA

Group has 1,750 farmers says pollution from industries has reduced them to poverty and political parties in power ignored their repeated pleas

PETA takes jallikattu protest to London

Bull-taming sport of Tamil Nadu allowed this year despite ban by Union environment ministry

Situation tense as Tamil Nadu gives go-ahead to Kudankulam Nuclear Plant

Sixteen activists, including two top leaders, are on indefinite hunger strike

‘Increased representation of women, ethnic groups not enough to overcome biases in STEM’

Down to Earth speaks to Meena Balagopal, educational researcher and ecologist, CSU, on gender bias and racism in STEM disciplines

Pro-GM farmers stage protest near Parliament

Farmers' organisations demand rejection of technical experts committee report recommending indefinite ban on field trials of GM crops

Agrarian crisis: farmers from 15 states protest at Delhi Jantar Mantar

They demand moratorium on land acquisition; farmers' suicides, falling incomes and GMOs on list of concerns