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: 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: 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…
Photo Credit: Parinita Mathur Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 12, 2025 10:20 ISTWritten By: Paresh Kumar A storm may be gathering. The U.S. Senate is considering the HIRE Act. Short form for Halting International Relocation of Employment. It proposes a 25 percent tax on payments U.S. firms make when they outsource jobs abroad….
Photo Credit: Antara Mrinal Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 11, 2025 04:09 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal Each year on the 11th of September, the entire population of India holds in remembrance those unknown heroes that lost their lives protecting forests and wildlife. National Forest Martyrs Day was introduced in 2013, but it is…
Photo Credit: Batx Energies Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 09, 2025 04:20 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal When the Geological Survey of India made an announcement in February 2023 that there is an inferred resource of 5.9 million tonnes of lithium ore in Reasi, Jammu & Kashmir, it felt as a small tremor in…
ODOP | Photo Credit: commerce.gov.in Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 09, 2025 03:45 ISTWritten By: Janmojaya Barik In the dusty lanes of Bastar, a Dokra artisan carefully shapes molten metal into intricate tribal figurines as it’s an art form his ancestors have practiced for centuries for survival and to keep the art form…
Photo Credit: Internet Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 06, 2025 12:45 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal When devastation strikes via natural calamities, the repercussions are often felt first in the Himalaya. As glaciers melt, floods take on unregulated forms and landslides rumble down hillsides. These become daily experiences for millions as they challenge our…
Clear Cut Gender And Skills & Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 04, 2025 01:56 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal The UN will be turning 80 on 24th October 2025, as one of the few defences against the plague of conflicts at an international level and injustice of any type, which has plagued the global community as…
Photo Credit: Ankita Shah Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 01, 2025 01:56 ISTWritten By: Manas Satpathy On a hot afternoon in Jharkhand, an adivasi farmer digs into his field and lifts a handful of soil. What should crumble like moist bread instead sifts through her fingers as dry dust. “This land once fed…
