Fast-growing emerging nations are taking increasingly aggressive actions to beat back rising food prices as they grow more worried of threats to stability if prices don't start to retreat. Developing-market governments have unveiled a laundry list of measures—including price caps, export bans and rules to counter commodity speculation—to keep food costs from disrupting their economies as price spikes that some had hoped were temporary have stretched into the new year. Some...

Train traffic on the Delhi-Howrah route was normalised late last night after farmers, agitating over land acquisition for a power house in Karchana area, decided to end their blockade on a railway line in this Uttar Pradesh district.After talks between farmers' leaders and the district administration last night, the farmers lifted the 13-hour seige normalising train traffic on a very busy route, Government Railway Police (GRP) sources said here this...

Farmer agitation over compensation for land returned to haunt the Mayawati government when about a dozen persons, including three policemen, were injured in a clash in Karchhana in Allahabad district on Friday. The farmers of Dewri Kachri village staged an indefinite dharna demanding more compensation for the land acquired for a power project being developed by the JP Group in Karchhana. Reports said that one person was killed in police firing....

The Bihar Government's plans for a mega power plant at Nabinagar in Aurangabad district went for a toss as an agitation by a large mob of farmers turned violent on Saturday, resulting in the ToRching of an empty passenger train. The farmers were agitating against the acquisition of 1871 acres of private land by the State Government for setting up 3300 MW power project, on grounds that the State Government had...

At tribute meet for slain info activist Satish Shetty on death anniversary, his brother says he will not take up RTI as his life's mission as it's a lone and dangerous battle "MY brother was a courageous RTI activist, but I will not continue his mission and become one," said Sandeep, younger brother of Satish Shetty. He was speaking at a public meeting in the city yesterday to pay tribute...