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India's demographic dividend turning into a pressure cooker

By Mohd. Ziyaullah Khan   By 2026, India’s youth anger can no longer be dismissed as a reaction to one leaked examination, one cancelled recruitment process or one police crackdown. The protests now unfolding across the country expose a deeper national failure: India is producing aspirations far faster than it is producing opportunity.
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Custodial death alleged in Halisahar, West Bengal; APDR seeks judicial probe

By A Representative   A 45-year-old man died after being taken into police custody in Halisahar in North 24 Parganas district, prompting the civil rights group Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) to allege custodial torture and demand an independent judicial investigation.
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Protecting the future: How village tutors keep children out of the mines

By Rohit Rakshit*  "The happiness and satisfaction I see on children's faces when they learn and understand new things motivates me to continue teaching," said Jitendra Kumar, one of fifteen community tutors from a remote village in Jharkhand’s Koderma district who continues to teach, even though the project that trained and supported them has ended.
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No external contractors on Sardar Sarovar reservoir: Displaced fishermen warn of protests

By A Representative   Hundreds of representatives of fishermen displaced by the Sardar Sarovar Project met Fisheries Department officials in Barwani on August 12, held detailed discussions on their problems and rights, and submitted a memorandum of demands. The delegation, led by the proposed Narmada Mata Matsya Utpadan Evam Vipanan Sangh, comprised representatives of various fishermen cooperative societies from Barwani, Dhar and Alirajpur districts.
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Right to walk, right to livelihood: Clearing footpaths 'can't mean' clearing out the urban poor

By Aseem Mishra*    India’s cities are locked in a quiet but intensifying struggle over one of their most contested public spaces: the footpath. For pedestrians, a footpath is basic infrastructure—a strip of ground that should allow people to move safely, independently and with dignity. For millions of informal workers, the same stretch of pavement is a workplace, a source of daily income and often the difference between survival and destitution.
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As luxury home prices surge, India’s affordable housing market faces a squeeze

Counterview News     India’s housing market is increasingly showing two very different faces: affluent buyers are driving demand for premium homes, even as the supply of genuinely affordable housing continues to shrink.
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For Gujarat’s silicosis victims, a year of legal victories and ground realities

By A Representative   The People’s Training & Research Center (PTRC), a Vadodara-based NGO that has worked on occupational health for over three decades, has released its annual report for 2025-26, documenting both significant legal breakthroughs and the persistent struggles of workers afflicted by silicosis in Gujarat’s ceramic and mining hubs.
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