Author(s): Aparna Pallavi [1] Issue Date: 2013-8-26 Madhya Pradesh government ordered to follow rehabilitation policy comprehensively Last year, people affected by the Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar dams protested the raising of dam storage levels by staying in neck-deep water for over… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Sayantan Bera [1] Issue Date: 2013-8-26 Odisha government has completed land acquisition for plant site but proposed mining in Khandadhar hills might stir up another struggle A file photo from 2011 shows women and children holding ground in Gobindapur village… Continue Reading →
Whole of India needs anti-superstition law Author(s): Kundan Pandey [1] Issue Date: 2013-8-22 State laws have been ineffective; Maharashtra hurriedly promulgates Ordinance to curb black magic and human sacrifice Illustration: Anirban Bora In 21st century India, many people in rural as… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Jyotsna Singh Date:Aug 19, 2013 Quota for free treatment of economically weaker sections in private hospitals under-utilised; less than half of the children referred from government hospitals get treatment in these places Children from the economically weaker sections (EWS) in… Continue Reading →
Author(s): T N Vijayalakshmi [1] Issue Date: 2013-8-19 Biodiverse Gandhamardan where mining attempts were abandoned earlier after massive public protests also on the radar of metal giant Vedanta‘s Lanjigarh refinery Vedanta Alumina Limited‘s (VAL’s) hopes of sourcing bauxite from Niyamgiri… Continue Reading →
Author(s): M Suchitra, Down to Earth Aug 31, 2013 | The last remaining contiguous grasslands in Karnataka diverted for development People affected by diversion protest with their sheep outside DC’s office (Photo: Vivek Muthuramalingam) ON JULY 25, the office of the… Continue Reading →
Aparna Pallavi Issue Date: 2013-8-12 Relaxation of river zone regulation law will damage rivers and even mines, say environmentalists The minutes of a meeting of the Maharastra River Regulatory Zone (RRZ) committee, made public recently, reveal that the committee has… Continue Reading →
Anupam Chakravartty Issue Date: 2013-8-12 Ministry panel visiting Greater Noida finds even leased mining areas do not have any environment clearance Mining is still going on discretely in Greater Noida. Mined sand from the riverbed is bought to some villages… Continue Reading →
News is increasingly being produced and consumed online, supplanting print and broadcast to represent nearly half of the news monitored across the world today by Western intelligence agencies. Recent literature has suggested that computational analysis of large text archives can… Continue Reading →
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