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#India -Free lawyer’ service helps tribals branded Maoists in Jharkhand #goodnews

Jaideep Deogharia, TNN | Apr 15, 2013, RANCHI: A group of young lawyers in Ranchi has decided to take up, gratis, cases of thousands of tribals branded as Maoists and shoved into jails across Jharkhand every year. The lawyers, who have named their organizationJharkhand Organization for… Continue Reading →

Vedanta nudges Odisha again for bauxite supply

Sadananda Mohapatra  April 13, 2013, BT VAL has been persistently urging the state government to arrange bauxite supplies from alternative sources             Vedanta Aluminium, which has shut its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh due to bauxite unavailability,… Continue Reading →

Surrendering naxals to get a red carpet: Fast trials, legal aid and more money for weapons laid down by Maoists

12 Apr, 2013, 0551 hrs IST, Aman Sharma, ET Bureau Surrendering naxals to get a red carpet NEW DELHI: The home ministry has asked state governments to consider not prosecuting surrendering Naxalites and set up fast-track courts for speedy trials as part… Continue Reading →

#Chhattisgarh – Brief report of events in the JK Laxmi Cement Factory : accident, arson and arrests

_ _ _ _ _ April 7, 2013, Note received from Sudha Bharadwaj In the past year there had been several agitations by farmers of various villages in the Nandini-Ahiwara area of district Durg, affected by the under-construction JK Laxmi… Continue Reading →

#India- Wages for dead show Rs 55,000 cr loot in NREGA scheme #scam

Wages for dead show `55,000cr loot New Delhi, DNA, April 6: The corpse of Bengali Singh was burned to ash atop a funeral pyre in 2006.Five years later, the dead man was recorded as being paid under the National Rural… Continue Reading →

Press Release- #India -1500 villagers on indefinite fast in Odisha against State sponsored private militia #Posco

Sandeep Kumar Pattnaik On 3rd April 2013, around 1500 villagers, including women and children, joined the indefinite protest in the Gobindapur village where the armed police forces camping. They have decided that they will continue the protest day and night… Continue Reading →

Angry Jeetan Marandi vows to continue stir for poor

 Mukesh Ranjan | Ranchi |  Pioneer, April 1, 2013 Aggravated after his release from the jail after five years, Jeetan Marandi is all set to expedite his movement for the cause of the release of thousands of innocent tribal people… Continue Reading →

#India- National Commission for Scheduled Tribes puts Governors in the docks

Governors in the dock   Author(s): Jitendra, downtoearth Issue Date: Apr 15, 2013 Tribals in Jharkhand protest for land rights. Conflicts are growing in tribal areas ( photo credit: ARVIND YADAV / CSE) They turn a blind eye to laws overriding… Continue Reading →

Gujarat- Illegal mining in Tapi district causing havoc to environment

 Adivasi Ekta Parishad  http://www.counterview.net Ashok Shrimali By Our Representative The Adivasi Ekta Parishad has strongly protested against the alleged large-scale illegal mining of soil, rampant in Valod taluka of tribal-dominated Tapi district in South Gujarat. In a representation to the… Continue Reading →

Jharkhand – Tribal and Cultural Activist Jiten Marandi released from jail #goodnews

RANCHI, March 29, 2013, The Hindu Jiten Marandi, cultural activist and one of the secretaries of Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners was released from Birsa jail in Hotwar in Ranchi on Thursday. He was accused with 19 others in… Continue Reading →

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