Women carry illegally mined coal from the active Godhar open-cast project in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district. Illegal mining is rampant even in closed mines and it is responsible for frequent accidents, which can be avoided if mining companies refill their abandoned coal pits
Women carry illegally mined coal from the active Godhar open-cast project in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district. Illegal mining is rampant even in closed mines and it is responsible for frequent accidents, which can be avoided if mining companies refill their abandoned coal pits
India banned the use of diclofenac 16 years ago. It is now only permitted for human use. But diclofenac is being misused for cattle treatments. “Such treatments are usually prescribed by quacks,” says Vibhu Prakash, deputy director, Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS). Here, a Eurasian Griffon and a cinereous vulture are seen in Jorbeer in Rajasthan.
Leaders of the SKM declared the Bharat bandh a success and as having nailed the “lie of the government’s propaganda”. Here, a journalist gives a piece to camera from atop a tractor at Ghazipur.
The response at Ghazipur was not much. However, the Bharat bandh was total in states like Punjab, Haryana, Kerala and Bihar, according to SKM. All kinds of institutions, markets and transport were closed in these states from 6 AM to 4 PM.
Despite a ban on firecrackers put in place by the Supreme Court in 2019, people in the national capital burst them with gay abandon. Here, two children light crackers in Vaishali in Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh.
A partially damaged statue of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajashekhar Reddy stands tall among the pile of rubble and abandoned houses in Dandangi village in East Godavari district.
A partially damaged statue of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajashekhar Reddy stands tall among the pile of rubble and abandoned houses in Dandangi village in East Godavari district.
A partially damaged statue of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajashekhar Reddy stands tall among the pile of rubble and abandoned houses in Dandangi village in East Godavari district.