Formalization of the economy: The share of the informal sector in India’s economy fell drastically to 15-20 per cent in 2020-21 from 52 per cent in 2017-18 due to digitisation and the rapidly expanding gig economy; however, the share of works in the informal sectors remain high, and many have had to avail work under NREGS due to the economic slowdown and job losses in the past year

Climate change: Heat waves likely to last ‘25 times longer’ in India by another 2-4 decades, says climate report

Climate deal at G20: The Group of 20 including India countries struck a climate deal that fell well short of what some nations were pushing for in a compromise accord that gave leaders little to take to the COP26 summit in Glasgow this week

Environmental disruption in Arunachal: Thousands of fish were found floating dead in Kameng river in Arunachal Pradesh’s East Kameng district after the water of the river suddenly turned black, triggering panic

Fourth year of political prisoners in prison without trial: Several individuals including Sudha Bhardwaj have been in jail for over 3 years now in the Bhima Koregaon case without trail; Earlier, a US based forensics report found that key evidence was “planted” on the computers of some of those arrested in this case