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Amruta Byatnal

London

Asia Editor at Context

Asia Editor @ContextNewsroom @TRF. Alum: @Cornell @ACJIndia. Ex @devex @the_hindu ✍️ in @ForeignPolicy @NatGeo @washingtonpost Email: [email protected]

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  • Sep 12, 2024 | marinelink.com | Mariejo Ramos |Amruta Byatnal

    Efren Dominico has been a fisherman in the Bay of Manila in the Philippines for 43 years and survived countless storms, but nothing prepared him for the day when an oil tanker sank off the coast in July and cut him off from his livelihood. The motor tanker Terranova capsized and sank off the tow of Limay, on the western side of Manila Bay, carrying 1.4 million litres of oil, the largest oil spill in the country since 2006.

  • Aug 8, 2024 | licas.news | Tahmid Zami |Faisal Mahmud |Amruta Byatnal

    There was jubilation and also lingering anger on the streets of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka after mass protests forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee the country, but many worried what would happen next. “We are free now – we have won!” said Syed Tanveer Rahman, 30, an activist in the movement that began as protests against quotas giving government jobs to people seen as Hasina allies, but morphed into mass demonstrations against her rule.

  • Jul 11, 2024 | dailystarnewstoday.com | Kunal Purohit |Amruta Byatnal

    What’s the context?

  • May 7, 2024 | eventbrite.co.uk | Amruta Byatnal

    Powerful storytelling spreads tried-and-tested solutions, shifts public opinion and drives policy change. But all too often, social and environmental innovators struggle to reach the right audiences or to land their message. Meanwhile, the media often reinforces stereotypes, or emphasises the enormity of the problem, rather than the many ways in which it is being tackled.

  • Mar 24, 2024 | vnexplorer.net | Amruta Byatnal |Helen Popper

    For mineral-rich Philippines, green metals rush is a balancing act Clean energy technologies fuel demand for copper, nickel Philippines wants to boost output of 'critical minerals' Green, Indigenous campaigners push for new mining law DIDIPIO, Philippines, March 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the Philippines works to ramp up mining to meet global demand for metals crucial to the green energy transition, environmental groups are demanding strict limits to protect nature and Indigenous...

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Amruta Byatnal
Amruta Byatnal @amrutabyatnal
12 May 25

“An island of strangers”

Politics UK
Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

🚨 NEW: Summary of Keir Starmer’s press conference before the Immigration White Paper is published: - Unfettered immigration risks the UK becoming “an island of strangers” - “Make no mistake, this plan means migration will fall, that's a promise” - he adds it will fall

Amruta Byatnal
Amruta Byatnal @amrutabyatnal
9 May 25

RT @pranesh: And now they've blocked @BBCUrdu. #FoE #censorship #India #JournalismIsNotACrime https://t.co/cigPBJNNNA

Amruta Byatnal
Amruta Byatnal @amrutabyatnal
8 May 25

This kind of breathless misinformation that’s floating on social media in the last few days requires round the clock busting, and we could not be more thankful for @zoo_bear and @AltNews right now

Mohammed Zubair
Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear

@indianrightwing Old and unrelated. https://t.co/AVP8i1uXXo