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Delhi’s waste-to-energy plants emit 3.5 times more carbon than coal, new report reveals

Counterview News  Centre for Financial Accountability exposes the “plastic paradox” and calls for an end to climate finance for incineration, urging a shift to genuine zero-waste systems *** A damning new report by the Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) and the National Alliance for Climate and Ecological Justice (NACEJ) has exposed the severe climate cost of waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration in India. Titled “The Climate Cost of Burning Waste,” the study reveals that Delhi’s WTE plants produce electricity that is significantly more carbon-intensive than coal, challenging the government’s classification of these facilities as "renewable" energy sources.
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65% of unrecognised political parties fail to make annual audit and contribution reports public: ADR

By A Representative   Nearly two-thirds of India's registered unrecognised political parties (RUPPs) have not made their annual audit and contribution reports for 2024-25 available in the public domain, according to a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). The ADR analysed the submission status of 734 RUPPs across 34 states and Union Territories, representing 35 per cent of all RUPPs, whose reports were available on the websites of the respective state Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs).
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Harassment of Dalit labour rights defender and his family: Global rights group raises alarm

By A Representative   The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), has raised alarm over escalating threats, intimidation and surveillance targeting Shiv Kumar, a Dalit labour rights defender, and his family in India. It has called on the authorities to end the harassment immediately and to guarantee that he will not be arbitrarily arrested or detained for his legitimate work.
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Forty-two years on, India still looks away from the 1984 anti-Sikh riots

By Shamsul Islam*  For nearly three decades, on every anniversary of the 1984 Sikh genocide, I have reminded the nation that the Indian State and its judiciary never identified and punished those who slaughtered innocents from the country's second-largest religious minority. Each year I hope justice will finally arrive and I will not have to write again. It has not. This year, on the 42nd anniversary, the State has stopped even pretending that it is working for the victims.
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100,000 dead, 4 million displaced: Myanmar's post-coup war grinds on as the junta loses ground

By Nava Thakuria*  At least 100,000 people, including civilians, have been killed in Myanmar's conflicts since the military coup of 1 February 2021, according to the UN. Kelley Anne Eckels-Currie, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, gave the figure to the UN General Assembly in New York on 27 October 2026. She called President Min Aung Hlaing a tyrant who still deliberately attacks civilians to force them into submission.
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Two Octobers - revolution in 1917, fear in 2026: From "peace, bread, and land" to survival kits

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak*  In October 1917, the Bolsheviks seized power under the slogan "Peace, Bread, and Land," shaped by Lenin's April Theses. The revolution toppled the Provisional Government that had succeeded the Tsar and set in motion the creation of the Soviet state. It inspired anti-colonial struggles worldwide and pushed governments toward welfare and social reform. Its enduring legacy is the idea that working people can govern themselves through collective, democratic decision-making.
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Naxalbari at sixty: Reviewing the movement’s legacy

By Harsh Thakor*  The setbacks faced by the Naxalbari movement have raised questions about its political, ideological and organisational foundations. Debates over these issues have existed since the movement's inception, but the present crisis has brought them into renewed focus. After six decades of advances and reversals, the movement faces the task of reviewing its experience and assessing its future direction.
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Stop selling the golden goose to foreigners: People's Commission on IDBI deal

Counterview News   The People's Commission on Public Sector and Public Services has demanded that the Centre immediately stop the sale of IDBI Bank to Fairfax, a Canadian company. In a detailed statement titled "Stop selling the golden goose to foreigners – Stop IDBI sale to Fairfax", the Commission said the deal is opaque, legally questionable and against the Constitution's Directive Principles.
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Supreme Court terms forcing deleted voters to fill Form 6 an ‘error’ in Delhi SIR case

By A Representative   The Supreme Court has pulled up the Election Commission of India (ECI) over its directive asking voters deleted during the Delhi Special Intensive Revision (SIR) to fill Form 6. Terming the move an "error" and a "structural incongruity," the apex court emphasized that the vital right to vote must not be forfeited due to procedural lapses.
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Concerned citizens demand quashing of FIR against standup comedian, 12 others

By A Representative   Eighty-five concerned citizens, activists, artists, academics and human rights defenders have sent a representation to the Director General of Police, Maharashtra, demanding the immediate quashing of an FIR against Mumbai-based stand-up comedian Masoom Rajwani and 12 other persons detained during a candlelight vigil at Chaityabhoomi, Dadar, on 25 October 2026.
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