Most farmers are worrying over the sudden shortage of water supply to the paddy crop which is currently being grown over 10 lakh acres in the Godavari districts, which accounts for the bulk of the rice procured in the state by the Food Corporation of India (FCI). Some farmers even staged a protest against water scarcity in West Godavari on Sunday. Farmers’ leaders alleged that shortage of water mostly affected...

We are delivering relief materials, claim Maoists A local newspaper has claimed that six Adivasis died of starvation at Morpalli village in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, where the security forces allegedly burnt 34 homes and granaries, sexually assaulted two women and killed one man on March 11. Last week, The Hindu reported the allegations that the security forces had torched about 300 homes and granaries, sexually assaulted three women and killed at least...

The district Administration on Friday acquainted block and panchayat employees with the provisions of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in a bid to curb unfair practices in the central project. The move has been taken by the Administration after Union rural development secretary B K Sinha expressed dissatisfaction over MGNREGS work during his recent visit here. Sinha had visited Bathua village in Chas Block to inquire into...

Social activist Swami Agnivesh phoned Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh, briefed him on his travel plans, and then embarked on a trip to the three villages allegedly burnt by the police in Dantewada. But he still could not get there. Along with his co-travellers, two teachers of 'Art of Living', he was physically obstructed and abused by a crowd on Saturday morning at Dornapal town, roughly 50 kilometres short of the...

Outsiders barred from entering The Ratnagiri district Administration, which has clamped prohibitory orders in the Jaitapur nuclear power project area, is preventing outsiders from entering the area even for public meetings, according to social activist Gopal Dukhande. Expressing solidarity He said that at a meeting to express solidarity with the people of Japan in Mithgavane village on March 25, the police were present in large numbers. “They harassed me and prevented me from entering...