AHMEDABAD: A video of a pride of 14 lions quenching their thirst from a mad-made water pond some 20 km away from Gir sanctuary in neighbouring Amreli district went viral on social media on Thursday. Once a rare sight, videos capturing huge lion families have become rather common place with …
GUWAHATI, Feb 12 – The protestors of the mega dams would sit for a discussion with the NHPC authorities tomorrow at 9.30 am in Guwahati. In a statement, the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), said that the NHPC authorities offered to hold discussion due to the ongoing protest against the …
Dhanbad, Jan. 29: More than 2,000 people displaced by the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) marched to Maithon’s BSK College Ground, 45 km from the district headquarter, today to take part in a public meeting organised by Adivasi Mahasabha, an organisation that has been fighting for the rights of the displaced …
‘Governments snatching lands without consent of gram sabhas' Noted social activist Medha Patkar has alleged that indiscriminate acquisition of farm and forest lands by the governments in the name of development without the approval of the ‘gram sabhas' concerned amounted to snatching the livelihood of weaker sections, mainly Adivasis. Ms. …
Environmental activist Medha Patkar will inaugurate a protest by the victims of pesticide endosulfan in front of the Secretariat here on Monday. The protest being organised by the endosulfan victims' popular front (Edosulfan Peeditha Janakeeya Munnani) is to press for its demands relating to relief and rehabilitation of the victims. …
“Church premises used for stir against Kudankulam plant” As some of the churches are being used to disseminate anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) messages, urging the people to join the ongoing protest against the nuclear power project, the police here have started registering cases against priests who either allow or …
Anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare has criticised Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan for making a pro-Lavasa statement. He said the government should instead conduct a serious enquiry and take strict action against the Lavasa Corporation for violating environmental laws. In a letter to Mr. Chavan, Mr. Hazare and social activist Medha …
MUMBAI: Social activist Medha Patkar has objected to chief minister Prithviraj Chavan's demand for green nod for the first phase of Lavasa. The chief minister had requested Union environment minister Jayanti Natarajan to grant environmental clearance to the first phase of the hill city project on November 4. Chavan's request …
Chennai/Tirunelveli:With protests against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant escalating, the Centre stepped in on Tuesday for damage control a day after Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa wrote to PM Manmohan Singh demanding that work on the project be stopped immediately. Union minister of state in the PMO V Narayanasamy rushed …
Sending Minister , V. Narayanasamy, he tells her After the Jaitapur nuclear power project in Maharashtra, it is now the turn of the 2,000-MWe Kudankulam atomic plant in Tamil Nadu to run into serious opposition. As protests by local residents and activists intensified, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday …
Rejecting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's remarks blaming the Centre for failing to convince the people about the safety of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, social activist Medha Patkar on Monday said it was the collective responsibility of both the Central and State governments to respond to the genuine apprehensions …
Not a comprehensive draft, says Medha Patkar The first major opposition to the draft National Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 will be in the form of a three-day dharna here beginning on Wednesday by the project-affected people. Various peoples' movements under the banner of SANGHARSH have decided …
How the State has responded to the fasts of Anna Hazare, Baba Ramdev and Medha Patkar and how the media has portrayed them are a study in contrasts and say something about our society.
Paradip: Eminent social activist Medha Patkar on Monday announced that the civil rights groups would stand by the people agitating against Posco's mega steel project in Jagatsinghpur district and demanded that chief minister Naveen Patnaik should visit the area immediately. Why can't the chief minister come down to Dhinkia for …
Land acquisition for the Posco steel project at Gobindpur and Dhinkia villages may be postponed indefinitely due to stiff resistance from villagers. The district administration
A large group of BJP leaders expresses support to agitating villagers Even as the Orissa government was set to resume land acquisition for the controversial Posco steel project in Jagatsinghpur district on Monday, political support for the anti-Posco agitation further grew on Sunday with a large group of Bharatiya Janata …
Bhubaneswar The anti-Posco movement is gaining steam with Opposition political parties rallying behind the villagers fighting against their forceful eviction. The Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have decided to support the people's movement against the South Korean steel major's 12 million tonne steel project at Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district. …
