Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of Sugra Adiwasi & Others Vs Pathranand & Others dated 29/04/2025. The bench of Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Justice Joymalya Bagchi directed the state of Madhya Pradesh as well as the central government through the the Ministries of Tribal Affairs and …
Ecuador's parliament on Thursday authorized drilling of the nation's largest oil fields in part of the Amazon rainforest after the failure of President Rafael Correa's plan to have rich nations pay to avoid its exploitation. The socialist leader launched the initiative in 2007 to protect the Yasuni jungle area, which …
Bhubaneswar: The report on the 12 Gram Sabhas over the extraction of Bauxite from Niyamgiri hills has been sent to the centre. The report will be submitted at the Supreme Court. The state government had conducted gram sabhas complying with the decision of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had …
The 182-metre-tall Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's "Statue of Unity" in Gujarat is facing resistance from tribals living in more than 70 villages around the site near the Narmada dam where the statue is proposed to be built. Over 2,000 tribals gathered at Indravarna village in Nandod taluka of the tribal dominated …
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 …
Over the last 100 years, linear trends of tributary streamflow have changed on Columbia River Basin tribal reservations and historical lands ceded by tribes in treaties with the United States. Analysis of independent flow measures (Seasonal Flow Fraction, Center Timing, Spring Flow Onset, High Flow, Low Flow) using the Student …
Status report on implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 [for the period ending 30th September, 2013].
Status report on implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 [for the period ending 30th September, 2013].
Says state govt must find alternative bauxite mine for Vedanta Union Rural Development minister Jairam Ramesh today slammed the Odisha government for fuelling Naxal movement in the state by adopting a ‘very lopsided land acquisition policy’. Emphasising that the new land acquisition act proposed by the Centre would remove the …
Youth arrived in SUVs to take part in the hearing for supporting the Jindal project Young men – some locals and some from far-flung areas – arrived in hundreds of SUVs to demand setting up of Jindal’s coal mines in Tiklirampur on Wednesday. Some of them told The Hindu that …
The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 will prevent forced acquisition and protect the rights of farmers and tribal people, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference here, he said the new law, would ensure that …
The level of development of a state is likely to be the consequence of a complex set of historical, cultural, and sociological factors. An explicit government objective was to have a more egalitarian society, coupled with balanced development of different regions. Despite taking a number of steps to reduce the …
It is an exercise by State government to hand over 350 hectare of land to JSPL Standing on the edge of a monstrous, black gorge, 72-year-old Kaniram, a Birhor tribal, stretched his left hand to point at the mud thatched house that he had in the hill slope. However, one …
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 …
New Delhi: A good number of dalits and tribals may be left out of the ambit of the ambitious Food Security Act, with the socio-economic caste census reporting less number of households of the two communities than found by the decennial census, a prospect that has made the government jittery. …
The UPA government worked proactively to clear the block for Rs. 6,500-crore joint venture of Hindalco and Essar In the case of Vedanta, the UPA government took proactive steps to defend the rights of tribals but it has done just the opposite to clear the Mahan coal block in Madhya …
One-hundred and fifty years after a treaty with England granted the Miskito people rights over their land--a treaty which was never fully respected--the government of Honduras has officially handed over nearly a million hectares (970,000 hectares) of tropical forest along the Caribbean Coast to the indigenous people. The Miskito are …
Stating that the overall area under rice production had reduced from 45,000 hectares to 32,000 hectares in the last 10 years due to mining, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Director, Dr Narendra Pratap Singh said that now the trend is reversing due to the closure of mining operations. Rice …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday described the new Land Acquisition Bill as a “historic piece of legislation” and affirmed that it would help reduce the influence of Naxalites in the tribal-dominated regions through its provisions for rehabilitation and resettlement of families displaced by land acquisition. The Rural …
Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh has hit out at state-run miner NMDC for allegedly “ignoring” the needs of the tribals in the state’s naxal-hit Bastar district by denying them promised employment and spending paltry money for their welfare. In a letter to steel minister Beni Prasad Verma late last month, …
The agriculture department and the forest department have decided to give cash incentives to farmers who allow trees to be planted along their fields. The government intends to plant trees on agricultural land to increase the state's tree cover. In the recent tree count undertaken by the government, the state's …
