Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Special economic zones and sit-ins. Mega-projects and marches. Public-private partnerships and pitched battles. Precociously, because they are desperate, state governments are willing to hand land, forest, water over to industry. Raucously, because they are really desperate, people all over India have begun to use all available means to contest the …
21 February, 2006: Anti-POSCO groups demonstrate against the visit of the then Panchayati Raj Minister, Dr Damodar Rout 8 December, 2006: Anti-POSCO convention held at Balitutha February, 2007: Polling for panchayat elections could not be held on some booths in Dhinkia following protests 13 October, 2007: Four POSCO-India executives taken …
The great Indian State no more sits on the fence, has crossed over to the industry"s side on the sidelines of G-8 summit in Hokkaido, Japan, the Indian Prime Minister committed to his South Korean counterpart he would try his best to help posco begin constructing its steel plant, at …
Jamshedpur, July 24: Jindal Steel and Power Limited has opened its local office in the city to expedite the process of land acquisition for its greenfield project. The office that came up in New Baradwari would deal with the process of land acquisition for its proposed 5-million-tonne steel plant project. …
Menaka Rao He won a case against a co-operative society that promised water supply after mortgaging his land After fighting for about 10 years, a Nashik-based farmer, Punja Gaikwad won a case against an
NH-57 land acquisition Six government officials arrested, four absconding The state Vigilance Department has unearthed a Rs one crore scam in the land acquisition process for the East-West Corridor along the National Highway-57 in Madhubani. Illegal payments have been made allegedly in at least 30 cases. The department has booked …
Rampant encroachment on the Kusumtola farm land has raised eyebrows among the people of Naduar in Sonitpur district. It may be noted that to provide shelter to unemployed youths of the area, the Government of Assam had established the farm in the 1980s. More than 200 bighas of land has …
Jammu businessmen alone sufer Rs 500 cr loss KT NEWS SERVICE JAMMU, July 9: The business community has suffered a major set back in the state due to unrest that prevailed over the issue of forest land transfer to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB). The Amarnath row has cost hundreds …
In an apparent departure from its stance of being environment-friendly, the Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to pass any order on a petition filed by a few Gujarat fishermen challenging the Special Economic Zone at Mundra. In what comes as a breather for the Adani group, the apex court asked …
Dhiraj Nayyar The attack in Kabul must not be allowed to undercut vital economic ties between India and Afghanistan Nowhere, perhaps, are the frailty of life and the mortality of human beings more evident than in Afghanistan. The suicide bomb attack on the Indian embassy may have been a first …
About 100 protesters from various Kashmiri Pandit groups in the capital vented their ire at Union minister Saifuddin Soz's doorstep on Sunday after he reportedly refused to hear them out on the revocation of land allotment to the Amarnath shrine board. Police said the protesters, including women and children, assembled …
Gurgaon: A day after farmers protesting against a proposed SEZ in Harsaru burnt two JCBs and blocked traffic on the Gurgaon-Pataudi Road, some youths damaged the official vehicle of an ACP and set it afire when the ACP was heading towards Gurgaon on Wednesday morning. Soon after, police conducted a …
If the results of the recently concluded panchayat elections are anything to go by, the issue of conversion of farmland into industrial plots will continue to make or mar political fortunes in the state in the years to come. Strangely enough, brick kilns are destroying vast quantity of fertile soil …
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Check post will not be moved to Hussainiwala, says Badal Putting to rest the speculation on shifting of the proposed multi-gate mega-project of Joint Check Post (JCP) at Attari border to Hussainiwala in Ferozepur, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said land acquisition troubles would be overcome. Talking to The Indian …
State-owned exploration giant Oil and Natural Gas Corporation on Monday decided to exit the Rs 25,600 crore Kakinada refinery, petrochemicals and SEZ project. It will be replaced by infrastructure major GMR Group which would get 51% equity in the venture, that had also been eyed by the Hinduja group. "We …
Bhubaneswar: Tension continued to grip the Posco project site in Jagatsinghpur on Sunday as 26 people were arrested for allegedly killing an anti-land acquisition activist. The anti-land acquisition brigade began observance of
