Author(s): Anupam Chakravartty Date:May 23, 2014 Journalists were shooting visuals showing illegal mining in Cauvery river bed in Tamil Nadu Photo: Sayantoni Palchoudhuri M Suchitra, the Down To Earth (DTE) correspondent in-charge of southern India, and news persons from a Malayalam new channel… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Anupam Chakravartty Date:May 24, 2014 In Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal, the total NOTA votes exceeded the victory margin in the constituency NOTA or none-of-the-above option introduced for the first time in this Lok Sabha election, has garnered 5.9 million or 1.1 per cent… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Chitrangada Date:May 6, 2014 Rampant mining for over a decade is altering north Odisha’s Bonai forests, and spurring protests Over the past decade, fuelled by a commodity boom led by exports to China, the iron and manganese ore-rich forests of… Continue Reading →
Outsiders in their own land 1 Author(s): Soma Basu @sbasu_in May 15, 2014 | Gujarat government eyes limestone underneath land cultivated by Sikh farmers, curbs their ownership rights Nirmal Singh, a farmer in Panandhro village, shows limestone in his farmland (Photo: Soma… Continue Reading →
Kundan Pandey [1] Issue Date: 2014-4-22 Asks government to pay victims and recover the money from pharma companies sponsoring the drug trials later The Supreme Court of India on Monday pulled up the Central government over non-payment of compensation to victims… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Ashis Senapati Date:Apr 21, 2014 CPI candidate claims residents angry over forcible acquisition of their land for the steel project voted for him; BJD candidate refutes claim and says majority people support industrialisation Voters queue to vote at Dhinkia primary… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Anupam Chakravartty Date:Apr 14, 2014 Shifting of 15 km-long tunnel and the power house of Bajoli Holi project in Himachal from the right bank of the Ravi river to the left bank will disrupt lives and forest rights of tribal… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Anupam Chakravartty Date:Mar 25, 2014 Green tribunal questions MoEF’s approval to the mining project in a “no-go” area which happens to be an elephant corridor The National Green Tribunal has asked the Chhattisgarh government to stop all work in an… Continue Reading →
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