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Photo Credit: Antara Mrinal Clear Cut Health DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 18, 2025 04:50 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal The phrase ‘perfect storm’ from United Nations does not allude to weather conditions but rather to lives falling apart. During the month of September in the year 2025, UN officials were raising alarms about the rampant rise…
Photo Credit: Antara Mrinal Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 17, 2025 05:00 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal Every monsoon season India anticipates heavy rainfall, but this year Punjab’s storms brought damage instead of warning. Torrential downpours, raging rivers, and floodwaters that flowed over farmland disrupted India’s food bowl. The results were destroyed crops, lost…
Photo Credit: Internet Clear Cut Health DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 17, 2025 12:35 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal India is facing an emerging public health crisis in the form of drug resistant infections, making treatable diseases even more difficult, and in many cases, deadly. During the 15th Annual Conference of the Clinical Infectious Disease Society (CIDSCON…
Photo Credit: Antara Mrinal Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 16, 2025 05:27 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal Human-wildlife conflicts are increasing across India. The greatest impacts are felt in the forest edges and villages in the Himalayan foothills, the Western Ghats, Assam, and Karnataka. As wild habitats are lost and climate pressures expand, wild…
Photo Credit : Ankita Shah Clear Cut Child Protection DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 16, 2025 11:20 ISTWritten By: Janmojaya Barik On a bustling Indian street, it is not difficult to find a child working. A twelve-year-old boy selling tea from a stall on the side of the road, a ten-year-old girl rolling beedis in the…
Photo Credit: Adda247 Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 15, 2025 05:08 ISTWritten By: Janmojaya Barik India’s poverty story has often been told as one of progress. Over the last two decades, government welfare schemes, exponential economic growth, and financial inclusion have reduced the share of people living in extreme poverty, also defined internationally…
Photo Credit: Climate Action Tracker Clear Cut Climate DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 15, 2025 02:30 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal India is at a pivotal moment in its climate journey. While many praise India’s development of renewable energy, new policies, and ambitious long-term commitments, new analysis has highlighted the difference between these policies and the styles…
Photo credit: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Clear Cut Health DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 14, 2025 06:24 IST New Delhi, 14 September 2025 — Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate the “Swasth Nari, Sashakt Parivar Abhiyaan” along with the 8th Poshan Maah on 17 September. This nationwide initiative, led jointly by the…
Photo Credit: Antara Mrinal Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 13, 2025 11:16 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal On a brisk morning in Chakrata, a town in Uttarakhand, the answer to the sound of raindrops falling is the thumping of wooden cogs amidst the flow of a rushing river. In a humble stone structure that…
A gausahala in UP | Photo Credit: IndiaToday Clear Cut Climate DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 13, 2025 10:20 ISTWritten By: Janmojaya Barik Animal protection has been historically, culturally, and economically significant in India, especially in Uttar Pradesh, where cattle are closely associated with livelihood and culture at large. Nevertheless, the state has always experienced increasingly…
