Photo Credit: Facebook @Captured moments Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Aug 29, 2025 04:15 ISTWritten By: Janmojaya Barik When Bhutan celebrated the birth of its crown prince by planting 108,000 trees, it was more than paying tribute to a royal child. It was testament to the world what is truly important in an era…
Photo Credit: Antara Mrinal Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 26, 2025 02:15 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal When the Geological Survey of India (GSI) launched a new Handbook on the ‘Geological Potential of Northeast India’ at the North East Mining Ministers’ Conclave, held in June 2025, the announcement was met with positive reactions from…
Photo Credit: Clear Cut Team Clear Cut Skills & Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 21, 2025 13:45 ISTWritten By: Paresh Kumar On September 19, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation that changes the rules for skilled workers. Any company that wants to sponsor an H-1B visa must now pay USD 100,000 (approximately ₹88…
Photo Credit: Antara Mrinal Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 20, 2025 09:20 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal In September 2025, a surge of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) actions occurred across India, reflecting companies’ growing responsibilities not just for profits but also for their social contributions. Initiatives spanned public health, environmental recovery, and disaster response,…
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: 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…
