-The Times of India Tribals and dalits led by social activist Vijay Vinit have threatened to start hunger strike from March 16, 2012, if illegal Mining operating is not stopped in Sonbhadra district. They have also demanded that all the officials, mafia, politicians, journalists who have been named in the recent Mining accident should also be arrested. Twelve labourers had died and scores injured in the Mining accident on February 27....
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CBI to probe cop killing by Rasheed Kidwai
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan today ordered a CBI investigation into last week’s murder of IPS officer Narendra Kumar, allegedly by Mining mafia. Chauhan said he was responding to an appeal by Madhurani, the slain officer’s widow who is an IAS officer in the state, and not clamours from the Congress. The Opposition party has been demanding a probe by the agency and called a bandh today to protest the...
More »IPS officer's killing: MP govt agrees on CBI probe-Joseph John
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday announced to hand over the probe into the killing of IPS officer Narendra Singh to the Central Bureau of Investigation. Narendra Kumar was brutally crushed to death by a tractor allegedly by the 'Mining mafia' in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh on March 8. The opposition Congress had stalled the proceedings of the House and forced an adjournment demanding a CBI probe into...
More »Jayanthi rewrites Jairam, ‘no-go’ is now ‘inviolate’ by Priyadarshi Siddhanta
Former environment minister Jairam Ramesh’s “go, no-go” policy to keep some areas out of bounds for Mining is back — with a different name. The environment ministry under Jayanthi Natarajan plans to demarcate some “inviolate areas” which will not be considered for green clearances. The ministry had agreed to the recommendations of the B K Chaturvedi committee that all Mining projects should be considered on merit. However, it has told a...
More »Job jeopardy rekindles red signs by Kumud Jenamani
Closed mines and resultant unemployment are still stoking Naxalism in Saranda, a maiden jan adalat (public hearing) held 160km from the steel city insisted today, indicating that more needed to be done to make the much-touted central action plan for the red turf a long-lasting success. More than 1,000 villagers from the Maoist dens of Noamundi, Gua, Kiriburu and Barajamda among others, which fall in the Mining belt of Saranda command...
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