Harvard and other major American universities are working through British hedge funds and European financial speculators to buy or lease vast areas of African farmland in deals, some of which may force many thousands of people off their land, according to a new study. Researchers say foreign investors are profiting from "land grabs" that often fail to deliver the promised benefits of jobs and economic development, and can lead to environmental...
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Families of Araria firing victims recount trauma by Shoumojit Banerjee
Footage of the fracas replayed at ANHAD meeting Old Rafiq Ansari is inconsolable, shocked and quite simply beyond words as he comes to grips with the loss of his seven-month-old grandson — a death he considers almost surreal. Baby Naushad, who died in his mother's lap when two bullets struck him last Friday, was one of the four killed in police firing on protesters. Villagers of Bhajanpur and Rampur were protesting against the...
More »Land acquisition woes: Govt scraps IT park project in Rajpura by Harpreet Bajwa
Problems of land acquisition once again led the Punjab government on Wednesday to scrap the prestigious project of self-contained integrated information technology and knowledge industry park — spread over an area of 1,276 acre — in Rajpura. This is the fourth project of the government which has been scraped due to land acquisition problems. According to sources, in a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, the state government decided...
More »Bhatta-Parsaul: Cong to approach court against land acquisition move
-The Indian Express AICC general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday criticised UP’s new land acquisition policy and said the Congress would approach court to quash the land acquisition notification of Bhatta-Parsaul. “The policy is a mere copy of the policy of the Congress government in Haryana, but it does not clarify certain points like at what rates the private players would acquire land. Moreover, it would not apply to those places...
More »Anti-Posco unrest spills on to capital's streets by Sandeep Mishra & Ashis Senapati
As the administration and the anti-industry brigade scaled up preparations for a showdown at Dhinkia gram panchayat in Jagatsinghpur district within the next few days, five political parties on Monday staged a civil disobedience agitation opposing the ongoing land acquisition for Posco steel project. Activists of CPI, CPM, Forward Bloc, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Samajwadi Party took out a rally from the Railway Station to PMG Square in Bhubaneswar, raising...
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