Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
Joon-gyu Lee, South Korea’s ambassador to India, on Monday said the foundation stone for Posco India’s 12-million-tonne steel project in Orissa is likely to be laid early next year. He added that the president of South Korea might do the honours. “The state government has successfully completed land acquisition for …
The Reang tribe in Tripura, which practised shifting cultivation and still does to an extent, faces serious problems with the state government implementing measures to turn them into settled cultivators. This essay points out that government programmes have widened social disparities among the Reangs and brought in alternatives that cannot …
The Government of India will not extend the tenure of the Justice M. B. Shah Commission inquiring into illegal mining in seven states. Sources in the commission told The Hindu that the one man Commission’s tenure will end on October 16 and hence will have to wind up without a …
Around 300 people were rendered homeless as erosion by Brahmaputra river washed away their villages in Morigaon district Monday morning. The homeless people have taken shelter on the nearby highland, while erosion continued to pose a threat to the area. Meanwhile, Assam State Disaster Management Authority said over 2,500 are …
Construction of a mega-steel plant in Odisha in Eastern India should be halted immediately, United Nations independent human rights experts have urged, citing serious human rights concerns. The project reportedly threatens to displace over 22,000 people in the Jagatsinghpur District, and disrupt the livelihoods of many thousands more in the …
An Act to ensure, in consultation with institutions of local self-government and Gram Sabhas established under the Constitution, a humane, participative, informed and transparent process for land acquisition for industrialisation, development of essential infrastructural facilities and urbanisation with the least disturbance to the owners of the land and other affected …
Manmohan Singh’s high-level panel to examine controversial issue of mining. The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council will examine whether developmental interventions and constitutional safeguards — including Fifth Schedule provisions — have come to the aid of tribal people in Left Wing Extremism-affected districts in central India. An NAC Working Group …
Sajjan Jindal was gheraoed to give signed letter on withdrawal. JSW Infrastructure’s proposed all weather port at Nandgaon-Alewadi in Thane district faces a roadblock as a section of villagers have stepped up their opposition to the project. JSW proposes to spend Rs 1,500 crore during the first phase with an …
Cost of environmental and social loss involved in coal mining and thermal power generation in coal-bearing States, including Odisha, has been estimated to be enormous. A Planning Commission of India-supported study finds many of losses apart from displacement and forest diversion triggered by coal mining and thermal power generation are …
While amending the law to allow continued possession of farm land to about 3700 farmers who faced eviction, the Haryana Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution appealing to the Gujarat Government to stop the process of displacement farmers of Punjab and Haryana origin from the Rann of Kutch. Speaking …
The Haryana Government has fulfilled a long-pending demand of Punjabi farmers in the state by bringing in a legislation that will restore land to them on lease for 99 years. The state had evicted many farmers, who had been tilling land given to them on lease, after the expiry of …
Protesters demand Indira Sagar Dam water level be kept below 260 metres The Jal Satyagraha or sit-in-water agitation by villagers affected by the Indira Sagar Dam entered its tenth day on Tuesday despite curfew and arrests. The agitation is currently in progress in six villages in the districts of Dewas, …
Fearing displacement and the spread of diseases like cancer because of ecological degradation, residents of more than 30 villages are up in arms against the state government's move to set up a thermal plant in Hajipur in Mukerian, near here. There has been simmering discontent against the government's proposal to …
Over 200 people have died and 6.9 million displaced as the flood situation remained grim in Bihar with most rivers in spate. As many as 201 persons have died since June 15 and 6.9 million others have been displaced as over 20 districts in the state were hit by flood, …
‘Implementation of new Land acquisition law will end displacement of tribals’ Criticising public sector undertakings (PSUs) for the displacement of many tribals, Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh on Sunday blamed their actions for the growth of Naxalism in various States and reiterated that the era of “forcible land acquisition” …
Analysing the problem-ridden process of implementing the Forest Rights Act 2006 in Odisha, this paper points out that it has focused more on providing land rights to individual claimants, neglecting community forest rights, the rights in protected areas, and other such provisions. Even so, the number of titles granted to …
Slams BJP leader Kamal Padha for violating norms Vijay Singh Mankotia, Congress leader from Kangra, said today that the micro-hydel projects in the Shahpur Assembly constituency were wreaking havoc on the ecology of the area. He said due to the violation of norms by micro-hydel projects, houses at Harvoh were …
With arrest of another 125 oustees from Bichhola village of Harda district on Tuesday, the number of arrested jal satyagrahis from Khandwa, Dewas and Harda has crossed 1,000 mark in the three days. Arrests have failed to dampen the spirit dam-hit and they continued their protest against increase in dam …
Despite a crackdown on their jal satyagraha, the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activists are undeterred by the arrests of villagers in the Narmada ghatti. Hundreds of displaced people in Malud village in Khandwa district have entered the water demanding proper rehabilitation including land for the loss of their fields, farms …
Hundreds of people from Khandwa, Dewas and Harda including senior Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Chittaroopa Palit were arrested on Sunday by police as soon as they started jal satyagrah to raise the issue of affected villagers of the Indira Sagar dam. However, affected villagers started jal satyagrah at new …
