Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed its two Commissioners N.C. Saxena and Harsh Mander and the Collector of Dantewada to visit the villages of Tadmetla, Morapalli and Timapuram in Chhattisgarh, where food scarcity and hunger deaths were reported, and to give a report to the court. A Bench of Justice …
Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has received a shot in the arm with a Union ministry of environment and forests committee recommending environmental clearance for the firm
The Rs 17,000 crore Polavaram irrigation project could run into heavy weather. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has objected to the Andhra Pradesh Government going ahead with construction for the project without settling with the Chhattisgarh and Orissa governments the issue of building embankments. Both states have argued that they have …
Twenty six-year-old Soyam Hunga has stayed in the Errabore Salwa Judum camp in Chhattisgarh for six years. He is from village Morguda in Dantewada district and moved to the camp, 30 kilometres away, to escape Naxalites. For the first five years, Soyam and his wife did not need to work …
Raipur: A cholera outbreak may have gone undetected in South Bastar this monsoon. Since June, a steady stream of deaths have been reported in the Maoist-hit districts of Bijapur and Dantewada. More than 100 people developed acute diarrhoea and died of dehydration within hours. Among other bacterial and viral diseases, …
New Delhi: The Raman Singh government just got one day from the Supreme Court on Wednesday to respond to some searching questions on mitigating the plight of poor tribals caught in the crossfire between Naxals and Salwa Judum, the state-sponsored vigilante group, in Chhattisgarh
Personnel of the security forces interact with members of Salwa Judum, a vigilante group raised to fight naxalites. A file photograph. A large number of villagers who suffered at the hands of this group are yet to be rehabilitated despite a government promise to his effect. ONE week after the …
The massacre of 76 policemen in Dantewada by naxalites is reprehensible. Yet we cannot brush aside the underlying poverty, deprivation and sheer lack of justice that are breeding tension and anger in vast areas of rural, tribal India. We cannot say that these developmental issues are long term—as the Congress …
NEW DELHI: A number of eminent persons and well-known activists have rallied to the support of writer Arundhati Roy, whose article on Operation Green Hunt has come under the scanner of the Chhattisgarh police. They have issued a public statement condemning the threatened action by the State's Director-General of Police, …
The interests of both the State and the Maoists are served by reducing the complex and many-layered tragedy unfolding in the forests of Dantewada to a battle between Good and Evil. For the Maoists, the people are subordinate to the revolution; for the government, the people are a minor expendable …
Aman Sethi Mukram: All the houses in this village in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, are locked. Cows, chickens and the odd pig roam the empty pathways in search of water and shade. Since the April 6 massacre of 76 CRPF personnel by Maoists in an open field about two kilometres away, the …
We cannot say that development-related issues are long term while the immediate task is to annihilate the Naxalites The massacre of 76 policemen in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh by the Naxalites is reprehensible. There is no doubt that this use of force is illegal and it is wrong. But, it …
We fly into Raipur, the advice given by civil rights activists ringing in our ears: be careful which hotel you check into, since most report any arrivals—especially of journalists—to the local police. It’ll be very hard to get into the conflict zone in Bastar without being followed, harassed and thrown …
A public hearing on police atrocities in the naxal-hit Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh was called off after hundreds of tribals attacked activist Medha Patkar and Magsaysay award winner Sandeep Pandey with rotten eggs and tomatoes on January 6. The tribals¤ mostly supporters of Salwa Judum¤ alleged Patkar and Pandey are …
The adivasis regard the Maoists as their friends for it is these rebels who have stood by them. All the normal channels of redress are closed for them. The police beat them. The political parties
R Krishna Das / Raipur November 19, 2009, 0:28 IST But, process is getting frozen wherever the state retreats before the Naxals, complain officials and industries. Ramsingh Sai willingly sold his two acres of land to a private power company in Pusar village of Raigarh district for Rs 3 lakh …
