American strategic play in India: A U.S. foreign-development agency intended to counter Beijing’s dollar diplomacy is lending $500 million to build a solar-panel factory in India, putting American taxpayer money behind a bid to weaken China’s dominance of the solar industry’s supply chain

Five lakh rupees for 40 years in jail without trail: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday granted only Rs. 5 Lakh as compensation to a Nepali man who remained in prison for over 41 years without conclusion of the trail and was released in March after the High Court’s intervention

Over one year of protests end: Farmers’ agitation called off after government gives written assurance that cases against farmers will be withdrawn

Displaced people await compensation for years: Coal mining leases allotted in 2020 will displace over 20,000 people in the Madhya Pradesh district of Singrauli, where since 1954 an estimated 200,000 people have lost lands and homes to mines, power plants and dams; The newly displaced join the thousands battling for compensation

Biodiversity: Assam’s Bihu Bird Count is becoming a national obsession; Birders from 11 states outside Assam participated in the Kati Bihu bird count from October 15- 18