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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal construction and non-forest activities within Nahargarh Wildlife Sanctuary, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 08/04/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Naresh Vashisth Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/04/2025. Issue raised in the application is encroachment of land of village Amer which comes under reserved forest and "Vankhand Amer-54 of Nahargarh Wildlife Sanctuary." The Assistant …

Rising resentment

Tamil Nadu sticks to its contention that the Mullaperiyar dam is safe and the construction of a new dam is unwarranted. THE Tamil Nadu government's display of calm confidence in its stand-off with Kerala over the Mullaperiyar dam issue is in sharp contrast to the anger among farmers in Madurai, …

Desam opposes bauxite mining in vizag agency

The Telugu Desam has decided to support tribals protesting against bauxite mining in Visakhapatnam agency area and demanded the Centre to cancel mining leases immediately. The party wrote a letter to the Central Expert Committee, Union ministry of environment and forests, to cancel the mining leases granted to Anrak and …

Understanding the Andhra crop holiday movement

Why would farmers keep their own land fallow as part of a voluntary “crop holiday protest movement” in a part of Andhra Pradesh is a question that has puzzled many. A field visit to the Konaseema region reveals that the dynamics of class contradictions in the area are also responsible …

Environmental movement in Dahanu: Competing pulls

The environmental campaign in Dahanu near Mumbai against the capacity MW plant started in the 1980s and ultimately led to the setting up of the Dahanu Taluka Environment Protection Authority. Even as competing lobbies continue to push for the de-notification of its status as an ecologically fragile region and removal …

Sonia Seeks Oppn Help to Pass Lokpal & Other Bills

Resolves to fight graft with several legislations in first address after illness; Mum on retail row Congress president Sonia Gandhi has said the UPA government was committed to eradicating corruption and sought the Opposition’s help in the passage of a variety of antigraft legislations, including the Lokpal bill. The appeal …

Pits of corruption

Goa's mining industry is facing a “crisis of reputation” following a series of writ petitions, a leaked PAC report and an inquiry by a commission. Thousands of Goans who are dependent on mining staged a demonstration in Panaji on October 12. They raised slogans against illegal mining but wanted legal …

Karnataka’s landmine

The reluctant resignation of B S Yeddyurappa from the chief-ministership of Karnataka has shown once again that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is as complicit as the Congress Party on corruption and the criminal abuse of government authority for personal aggrandisement. This is not a revelation, but it is easy …

Friends or foes?

Government and non-government groups have not always been on the best of terms and this relationship has been redefined over the years with changing social and political scenario. The showdown over the Lokpal bill marks a new low. Read this analysis by Down to Earth. Arguably, this is the hottest …

Civil v political

Just over three months ago, Jantar Mantar became the epicentre of a nationwide frenzy against corruption. Social activist Anna Hazare was on a fast-unto-death over his single-point demand of enacting a stringent Lokpal Bill, which would establish an institution to deal with cases of corruption in high offices. Hazare was …

Rise of third sector

The non-government sector has come of age. Never before has it hogged the limelight as now, following the agitation over the Lokpal Bill. “Civil society has made national news for the first time. We have been in the headlines for three consecutive months,” says Amitabh Beher, executive director of the …

Move to leash NGOs

The battle over Lokpal has entered its next big phase. The question now is: how will civil society react to the outcome of the July 3 all-party meeting in which all political parties discounted the role of non-government groups in formulating a law? The government’s draft of the Bill makes …

Endgame for bustards

Just mention the large brown-and-white bird and the residents of Mardi village in Solapur burst out in anger. The district in Maharashtra is one of the few refuges for the rare Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps), endemic to the grasslands of India and Pakistan. Of the 30-35 birds remaining in …

Endgame for bustards

Just mention the large brown-and-white bird and the residents of Mardi village in Solapur burst out in anger. The district in Maharashtra is one of the few refuges for the rare Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps), endemic to the grasslands of India and Pakistan. Of the 30-35 birds remaining in …

What Anna Hazare’s movement and India’s new middle classes say about each other

Anna Hazare’s hunger strike against corruption in April 2011 attracted disparate intellectual strands from within the Indian middle class. These strands brought complementary skills to the table. The neo-Gandhians conferred legitimacy; India Shining provided energy and finances; and Legal Activists helped navigate the legislative path. The movement also attracted the …

A demagogue, the state and civil society

A demagogue is able to make New Delhi panic and shoot itself in the foot. (Editorial)  

Amended land acquisition policy: BSP

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) said that Opposition's criticism of the newly-amended land acquisition policy was uncalled for and showed the anti-farmer mind set of these parties. In a statement released here on Friday, the party's spokesman said that the BSP government had taken an initiative to solve this perennial …

Why Polavaram is a pointless project

 400,000 MAY BE DISPLACED The environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the project says 276 villages will be affected; an estimated 177,275 people live in these villages. The Polavaram Project Environmental Impact Appraisal Report of 1985 expected 150,697 people to be displaced in 226 villages. But the population of these villages …

Lokpal alone cannot stop corruption'

PUBLIC interest lawyer Prashant Bhushan was nominated by Anna Hazare as one of the five civil society members to the 10-member committee constituted by the Central government to draft the new Lokpal Bill by June 30. With his father, former Law Minister Shanti Bhushan, also in the same committee, critics …

The brooms are out in Delhi now

In recent months, the BJP-dominated Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the Congress-led Delhi government have been outdoing each other in floating proposals and schemes for better governance. The MCD is in the throes of implementing a new Residents' Welfare Committee (RWC) scheme. Not to be left behind, the Delhi …

India's education policy: From national to commercial

Post independence, India’s leaders, particularly Abul Kalam Azad, advocated an education policy that would be liberal and humanitarian, and set the nation on the path of progress and prosperity. This path was neither a full continuation of the colonial modern nor a restoration of the feudal-traditional. Drawing on progressive ideas …

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