The Supreme Court order against the Salwa Judum’s vigilantism in Chhattisgarh must be read by all, especially government officials. The details of the civil war in the tribal districts of Chhattisgarh are largely unknown to most readers of this newspaper. For the region is remote and inaccessible, and easily ignored by the national media. This civil war pits, on the one side, Maoist extremists, and, on the other, a band of...
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India contributes to large drop in global poverty: UN report
-PTI India has contributed to a large reduction in global poverty, according to the UN annual report on the Millennium Development Goals , which also pointed out that despite progress, the most vulnerable sections of society were being left out. The report, which was released on Thursday , said that poverty continues to decline in many countries and regions. It said that the fastest and sharpest reductions in poverty were in Eastern...
More »Supreme Court allows mining by Lafarge by J Venkatesan
Forest Bench issues guidelines for future clearances The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the French cement company Lafarge to mine limestone in the Forests of the East Khasi hills in Meghalaya. The Forest Bench, comprising Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices Aftab Alam and K.S. Radhakrishnan, accepted the contentions of the Lafarge to mine in the Forests of Meghalaya and that it had obtained necessary clearances. Writing the judgment, the CJI said: “In...
More »Orissa to renew MoU with Posco India by July end
-The Business Standard Even as the process of renewal of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Posco India has been hit by delay presumably due to the contentious issue of iron ore swapping, the Orissa government has maintained that the pact would be renewed by the end of this month. “The process of renewal of MoU with Posco India is on. The pact will definitely be renewed by the end of July....
More »POSCO: take land but give life by Sunita Narain
The sight on television was heartbreaking: children lying in rows in the searing sun to be human shields against the takeover of their land for Korean giant POSCO’s mega bucks project. Facing them were armed police sent by the state government to assist in the operation. The steel plant and port project, located in a coastal district of Odisha, has been in a six-year-long eyeball-to-eyeball battle with people whose land will...
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