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Sabarmati-style Yamuna riverfront could worsen Delhi’s flood risk, experts warn

Counterview News   A group of 18 water experts, environmentalists, researchers and civil society representatives has urged the Central and Delhi governments to prioritise rejuvenation of the Yamuna and protection of its floodplain instead of pushing a Sabarmati-style riverfront development project along the 52-km stretch of the river in the capital. In a representation  published by the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP), the signatories warned that replicating the Ahmedabad model in Delhi would be “scientifically inappropriate” and could “threaten the river’s ecological integrity, compromise flood safety and weaken floodplain protection”.
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Rising rural women’s workforce participation masks deepening economic distress: Oxfam

Counterview News   India’s recent employment data presents a seemingly triumphant narrative: rural women’s labour force participation has nearly doubled, soaring from 24.6% in 2017-18 to 47.6% in 2023-24, marking one of the sharpest increases globally. However, a deeper analysis by global civil rights group Oxfam, coupled with warnings from financial accountability experts, reveals that this statistical surge is not a hallmark of women’s economic empowerment. Instead, it is a distress signal pointing to shrinking opportunities, falling wages, and a dismantled rural safety net.
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Menstrual poverty and debt: The dark reality behind Maharashtra’s sugar boom

By Vikas Meshram*  The story of Maharashtra’s sugar industry is typically told through the lens of factory chimneys, crushing-season quotas, and global commodity prices. But behind the sweetness of the final product lies a bitter, hidden reality: the lives of lakhs of men and women who step into the sun-scorched fields with a sickle in hand. 
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Will Odisha’s mining boom destroy what it claims to develop?

By Bharat Dogra   It is a cruel irony that in many parts of the world where valuable minerals have been found and exploited, significant sections of local people experience increased distress and disruption instead of benefiting from the new economic boom. This is particularly true of rural people, farmers, pastoralists and those dependent on forest-based support systems, who may find farms, pastures and forests devastated by indiscriminate mining.
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Beyond consultation: Giving Adivasi communities the final say

By Dr Palla Trinadha Rao*  Can a community shape its future when the big decisions about its land, forests and knowledge are made somewhere else? This question sits at the centre of tribal self-determination in India's Scheduled Areas. The Constitution and special laws recognise distinct rights and institutions, yet land alienation, displacement, administrative centralisation and the neglect of customary knowledge keep testing them.
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Siang Valley communities resist 11,500 MW dam as 'arrests, militarisation' spark rights concerns

By A Representative   Indigenous communities in Arunachal Pradesh's Siang Valley say they are facing police excess, arrests and heavy security deployment for opposing the proposed 11,500 MW Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP), speakers said at an online press conference organised by Youth for Himalaya.
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Siang mega-dam: Development, indigenous rights and the future of the Himalayas

By Neha Desai   The escalating conflict over the proposed Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) in Arunachal Pradesh highlights tensions between India’s hydropower ambitions, national security concerns, Indigenous land rights and environmental protection. The growing protests raise fundamental questions about development, public participation and the future of communities whose lives and livelihoods could be affected by the project.
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Delhi protests: Former judge, ex-Home Secretary among panel confirm use of pellet guns, electric batons

By Rajiv Shah   A People's Tribunal headed by a former High Court judge and including a former Union Home Secretary has concluded that security forces used excessive and unlawful force against protesters in Delhi on 20 July 2026, including pellet-firing weapons and electric batons.
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Press Club flags threat to press freedom amid anti-dam protests in Arunachal

By A Representative   The Press Club of India (PCI) and the International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL) have condemned the arrests of anti-dam activists and the deployment of security forces in Arunachal Pradesh's Siang Valley amid continuing protests against the proposed Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP). In a press statement dated October 30, the Press Club of India expressed concern over the Arunachal Pradesh Police including the name of senior journalist and deputy editor of The Arunachal Times, Tongam Rina, in requests for search warrants in connection with the October 23 violence in Pasighat.
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Global experts allege systematic abuse of Muslims in Assam, Uttar Pradesh

Counterview News  A panel of three international legal experts has concluded there is a "reasonable basis to believe that international crimes may have been committed against Muslims in both states" of Assam and Uttar Pradesh . The report, published in March 2026, is the second from the group and covers July 2022 to January 2026.
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