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. …
Around 87 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) projects have been notified in the entire country. Rs 60,000 crore would be invested in these projects. Two SEZ projects have also been sanctioned for Chhindwara district. Under this project footware designing and construction training related institutions worth crores would be established, Union Commerce …
The state government is doing all it can to reshape the Siliguri-Jalpaiguri belt into an industrial hub WEST Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has good news to share with his prospective Indian and foreign investors: 'It's ready - come to Siliguri to set up new industries and business. There will …
NANDIGRAM: After suffering prolonged violence for nearly one-and-half years, victims in the strife-torn areas of Nandigram finally heard some good news from Trinamul Congress leaders today. The Trinamul leaders today announced that they would compensate villagers whose houses were vandalised during the violence. The party also pledged to provide employment …
Governor Lt Gen S K Sinha and Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today described shrinking agricultural land in the state a grave issue and emphasized the need to go for research-oriented agri-practices to increase productivity. While addressing to second convocation of SKUAST-J, Chief Minister, who is also the Pro- Chancellor …
Hooghly police have decided to double the deployment of the force at the Tata Motors project site here following a request from the company. The request had been made after the Trinamul Congress routed the CPM here in the rural polls, bagging 15 of the 16 gram panchayat seats, the …
The crucial change required in cases of compulsory land acquisition is to pay the farmer the replacement cost of the asset being acquired at the time he receives the compensation, says Prabhu Ghate THE Land Acquisition Act 1894 was formulated in much simpler times. There were few large projects in …
Little did I know that the seven of us would be branded "Maoists' when we set off for a protest rally against posco in Orissa on April 1. We had reached Bhubaneswar a day earlier and booked a taxi to Dhinkia, a hamlet 10 km off Paradip port. A local …
The Supreme Court today refused to stay the Calcutta High Court order upholding the acquisition of 1,000 acres in Singur for the Nano plant. A bench headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan rejected pleas by a Calcutta lawyer and two Singur farmers to stay the January 18 judgment that held …
Farmers from Bhiwqandi tehsil protested against the state government for their land-acquistion. They staged a rasta-roko agitation under the leadership of Shiv-Sena MLA, Yogesh Patil and ZP chairman, Kapil Patil near Pise-Panjrapur purification plant on the Nashik-Mumbai national highway no 3 in Bhiwandi tahsil. The farmers are against reservation of …
Nandigram will go for panchayat polls on 11 May in what could be a referendum on the chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee's industrialisation policy. Keeping this in mind the CPI-M has chalked out its election machinery on the Keshpur and Garbeta model of 2001 to reign in its political adversaries …
There is every possibility that the Thane-Belapur industrial zone could become the state's first special economic zone (SEZ). The state government has appointed Pricewaterhousecoopers as consultants to explore the establishment of an SEZ in the belt. While the government is hardselling Dronagiri in Navi Mumbai as its first-ever SEZ, sources …
CHINSURAH: Support the "police atrocities' on farmers who have been opposing the alleged "forceful' acquisition of farmland in Singur or face consequences. This seems to be the message the CPI-M wants to convey, even to its own supporters in Singur. CPI-M cadres allegedly destroyed field crops of two active members …
Ambala, May 04 In a historic judgment delivered by a Fast Track court here on Saturday, the proprietary rights were restored to the owners of around 10,000 acres of land of the Ambala Cantonment. Judge A K Shourie restored land to the owners that had been rented by the English …
The land-losers who had sacrificed their cultivation quarters to help installation of DVC's Mejia Thermal Power Station in Bankura blocked the coal consignments and entrance of the power utility causing severe inconvenience to its expansion work for 12 hours today. They demanded absorption against land acquisition. The stir was withdrawn …
They cannot measure it in metres; they cannot explain what is happening, but they know they can no longer cope or adapt. My colleague Pradip Saha has been filming in Ghoramara, an island in the Sunderban delta, to understand why, in this zone suspended between land and water, people talk …
south Korean steel giant posco continues to face stiff public resistance in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district where the company is setting up a 12 million tonne steel plant. On April 1, protesters violated the district administration's prohibition orders and entered the Balitutha bridge near the plant site. "This is our land …
Kudremukh was notified a national park in 2001. Protests have ensued ever since and the demand for denotification of the park has intensified over the years. The tribals fear they will be forced out of the park and relocated elsewhere. The state's relocation plans, however, haven't taken off yet. But …
EGRA (Midnapore East): Chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today steered clear of the controversial issue of land acquisition for industrialisation at an panchayat election rally here today, thereby offering no opening to local MP Mr Lakshman Seth to raise the matter after he followed the chief minister to the dais. …
The model code of conduct for the May panchayat polls will not hinder land acquisition for industry and other development projects, the state election commission said today. "Some district administrations had stopped land acquisition for industrial projects in view of the rural polls as they thought it would attract provisions …
