Author(s): Srestha Banerjee [1] Issue Date: 2013-7-17 Ownership over minerals vest with land owner, says apex court; question of payment of royalty to state referred to a larger bench In a landmark verdict last week, the Supreme Court has held that… Continue Reading →
by Jay Mazoomdaar , First Post Serkepadhi (Muniguda): The palli sabha at Serkapadhi village registered strong opposition to the proposed bauxite mining by Vedanta and claimed religious and cultural rights on the entire Niyamgiri hills after three and a half hours of high… Continue Reading →
Amartya Sen: India‘s dirty fighter Half of Indians have no toilet. It’s one of many gigantic failures that have prompted Nobel prize-winning academic Amartya Sen to write a devastating critique of India’s economic boom Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian The… Continue Reading →
Given injection by rickshaw-puller, baby dies in Uttar Pradesh hospital Reported by Anant Zanane, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh , NDTV Ballia, Uttar Pradesh: At an understaffed government hospital in Uttar Pradesh, people are at the mercy of untrained sweepers and rickshaw pullers –… Continue Reading →
In 2006, ArcelorMittal had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Odisha government to set up a 12-million tonne steel plant in four phases at Keonjhar New Delhi, 17 Jul (Agencies): In the biggest foreign investment pullout, world’s largest steel maker ArcelorMittal… Continue Reading →
Surajeet Das Gupta | New Delhi July 15, 2013, BS Three FDI offers fail transparency test FIPB rejects proposals from firms that have not divulged details of beneficial ownership or source of funding Amid talks of some foreign investors abusing double… Continue Reading →
NEW DELHI, July 17, 2013 Sandeep Joshi, The Hindu ‘Armed forces were indulging in gross violation of human rights’ Once again highlighting the rampant misuse of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act or AFSPA, a Supreme Court-appointed Judicial Commission has noted… Continue Reading →
Social change is possible only when we demand it. Amartya Sen tells Shougat Dasgupta that change requires people to think beyond sectional interests and insist on a better life for all July 17, 2013 Amartya Sen. File Photo Why have we been so… Continue Reading →
Muzamil Jaleel : Srinagar, Wed Jul 17 2013, IE On the morning of June 28, 2004, about two weeks after 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed by Gujarat policemen in a fake encounter outside Ahmedabad, the Jammu & Kashmir… Continue Reading →
Is India ready to protect itself from the onslaught of food and nutrition industry? Photo: Soumik MukherjeeIndia is shouldering a huge burden of malnutrition—in the absence of government figures, a dipstick survey by non-profit HUNGaMA in 2012 suggests that 59… Continue Reading →
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