By Chandrahas Choudhury Apr 25, 2012, Bloomberg On a recent visit to Bhubaneswar, the capital of the large eastern state of Odisha, I found the airport plastered with advertisements and slogans expressing the nurturing, socially conscious side — caring… Continue Reading →
Dear friends, Bhan Sahu is in Sakreli village in Janjgir district in Chhattisgarh with Jan Chetna Yatra where people are sitting on protest from more than 2 months saying they will not give their land for upcoming power plant. She speaks to one… Continue Reading →
Natives of Niyamgiri feel that the police is acting as an agent of the Vedanta group, playing dirty tricks to help the company go ahead with its plans to mine bauxite from the sacred hills Bibhuti Pati Lanjigarh (Odisha), Tehelka… Continue Reading →
NEW DELHI, ET, 18TH April: Environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan nixed yet another attempt by Vedanta to get Niyamgiri bauxite mines in Odisha that Rahul Gandhi had stood up against, saving the Congress and its scion some blushes. On Tuesday, she ordered that… Continue Reading →
EPW, Vol XLVII No.16 April 21, 2012 Take away Maad from the Maoists, but with profits taking precedence over people the movement will not die. We do not think that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram is so naïve as to… Continue Reading →
April 13, 2012 The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to “consider” a plea for an independent probe into the killings of top Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad and scribe Hemchandra Pandey in an allegedly staged gun battle by the… Continue Reading →
MARI MARCEL THEKAEKARA, April 14, 2012, The Hindu What does one do when a tiger‘s life is apparently more precious than an Adivasi‘s? On March 30, Kokila, an Adivasi woman, was collecting firewood with a few friends near Kozhikolly village… Continue Reading →
KHAMMAM, April 11, 2012 , The Hindu Activists protest against Operation Green Hunt BIG TROUBLE:The anti-Operation Green Hunt rally being stopped by police in Charla in Khammam district on Tuesday.- PHOTO: G.N. RAO Tension gripped Charla on Tuesday when the police stopped… Continue Reading →
HYDERABAD: Terming mining as the “greatest threat” faced by the tribal community in last two decades, Tribal Affairs Minister Kishore Chandra Deo has asked the youths selected under an ambitious programme to create awareness among the forest dwellers about their… Continue Reading →
With the National Green Tribunal scrapping environment clearance, Posco’s seven-year-wait is extended further, reports Bibhuti Pati in TEHELKA ON 30 March 2012, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) delivered a judgment that has sent India’s largest FDI back to the drawing… Continue Reading →
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