Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Romila Thapar & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 29/08/2018 regarding arrest of activists for their alleged Maoist links. Apex Court directs that the activists be kept under house arrest at their own homes. The next date …
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 …
CHENNAI: Natural resources in the country are under threat as vast tracts of land, forest and water reserves are being handed over to Indian affiliates of international finance capital under cover of the eminent domain doctrine, or the state's pre-eminent ownership of land, Binayak Sen, human rights activist and vice-president …
Primary Responsibility For Police Action And Development Lies With State Governments: Minister Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI UNION home minister P Chidambaram on Monday said the primary responsibility for both police action and development in Naxal-affected areas lies with the state governments, even though the Centre was an important partner …
ISHWAR PATI CHLOROPHYLL must be one of the most precious gifts of god, profoundly more precious than the proverbial nectar, though we neither consume it directly nor can we touch its magical quality. It hovers all around us like a guardian angel, making all the difference between oxygen and carbon …
AD - MAOISM - National dailies The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has taken Operation Greenhunt to the media. On April 6 national dailies carried an ad denouncing Maoist violence. Issued in “public interest”, the ad shows a youngster, framed in the backdrop of destroyed school buildings and houses, who …
GREEN lingo has by now infiltrated In dia’s economic policy circles. In his pre-budget speech, Prime Minister Manmo han Singh hinted it was time India’s industrialization took the low-carbon path. The policyspeak may not have go ne down well with the greenhouse gas-happy industry. But there was little else in …
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 …
BHUBANESWAR: In a sign of greater coordination to defang the Maoists, the three neighbouring States of Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have decided to bridge the gap among them. As a first move, the States will complete all the major and vital pending bridges in the border areas. In fact, …
WE NEED a new paradigm for living on the earth because the old one is clearly not working. An alternative is now a survival imperative for the human species. And the alternative that is needed is not only at the level of tools, it is at the level of our …
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI A group of five civil servants who received the Prime Minister award for excellence in civil administration from Madhya Pradesh (2009-10) could well provide states like Chattisgarh and Jharkhand an answer on how to tackle the problem of Naxalism. Madhya Pradesh had one of the poorest …
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, …
BHUBANESWAR/JHARSUGUDA: Meeting after the recent reverses of the party in the urban body polls, the State executive of the Congress resolved to take to the streets demanding Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the multi-crore mining scam. Vigilance probe ordered by the State Government will not be able to …
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 …
Vinobha K T, Mangalore, Apr 16, DHNS: For millennia, they lived in harmony with nature in the pristine forests of what is now the Kudremukh National Park, but in the recent years the innocent world of the Malekudiya tribals is in turmoil. Government control of the forests and the consequent …
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 …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government today sought inclusion of four more districts under the Left Wing extremist-hit area development scheme. The Government also asked the Centre to sanction at least Rs 300 crore for early construction of Vijayawada- Ranchi road, the lifeline of tribal hinterland. The road will pass through 12 …
Aman Sethi Raipur: The Chhattisgarh police confirmed that they were investigating a complaint filed against award-winning writer Arundhati Roy for violating the provisions of the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act 2005 (CSPSA). As per the complaint filed by one Viswajit Mitra in Raipur, Ms. Roy's recent essay
