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 →
Author(s): Soundaram Ramanathan Date:Apr 23, 2014 Hearing on plea to stay illegal mining to be taken up next Monday. Petitioners argue that the illegally recovered wealth from the miners should be utilised for the development of the backward mining districts in… 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): M Suchitra Mar 15, 2014 | Compromises on Polavaram; agrees to exclude villages facing submergence from new state People protest against the Polavaram project in V R Puram block in Khammam district. All 42 revenue villages in this block will be totally submerged… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Aparna Pallavi Date:Feb 10, 2014 A portion of reservoir given for management and fishing In what could prove to be an important precedent for the implementation of Forest Rights Act, a Korku tribal village has received community forest rights (CFR)… Continue Reading →
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