-The Business Standard   Five political parties stage protest against land acquiSITion Tension prevailed on Monday at the proposed Posco project SITe at Gobindpur village under Dhinkia panchayat as ten platoons of armed police conducted flag march ostensibly to create a fear psychosis among the local people ahead of the land acquiSITion process at trouble-torn Dhinkia panchayat. The SITuation is going to very critical at Gobindpur as the activists of Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti...

Senior lawyer and Kashmir Committee chief Ram Jethmalani has demanded that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and the Public Safety Act be revoked, expressing concern at the human rights SITuation in the State. At the end of the committee's five-day viSIT to Kashmir, he told journalists that New Delhi was partly responsible for the SITuation. He said he would constitute a group of lawyers in Delhi to fight the cases...

On a day when the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued notice to the government seeking reports within two weeks on the early morning crackdown on Baba Ramdev's supporters on the Ramlila Grounds here on Sunday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described the episode as “unfortunate” but justified it, saying there was “no alternative.” In his first comments on the episode here, Dr. Singh told journalists: “It is unfortunate that the operation...

-The Hindu   Drawing attention to the SITuation in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa, where villagers are peacefully opposing forcible acquiSITion of their private and forest lands by the Orissa Government for South Korean steel major Posco's project, a report titled “Tearing through the water landscape: Evaluating the environmental and social consequences of Psco project in Orissa, India” was released here on Tuesday. “People have been against industrialisation of their land since November...

In the season of draft Bills, the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council has come out with its draft of the National Food Security Act, 2011, that gives legal backing to the highly leaky PDS system, thereby excluding innovative options like cash transfers, which may have included variants like food stamps and UID-linked smart cards. Despite the PM’s panel objecting to universal legal entitlement, the draft says that “not less than 90%...