Villagers on dharna at Balitutha teargassed, lathicharged About 100 people were injured when police fired rubber bullets and teargas shells, and lathi-charged hundreds of villagers in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa on Saturday afternoon to help the administration acquire land for the steel project of Posco-India. The police took action after the villagers did not respond to their orders to move away from Balitutha, the main entry point to the site earmarked...
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Battle over resort 'threatening Andamans tribe' by Geeta Pandey
A handful of Jarawa tribesmen recently broke into a house in the village of Mathura in the Andaman islands. They left after taking away rice, sugar and coconut. The first people to successfully migrate out of Africa, the Jarawas came to the Andaman islands 60,000 years ago, scientists believe. Essentially hunter-gatherers, the tribespeople have traditionally survived on the raw meat of wild boar. But in the 1970s, a road (the...
More »The Allure Of Organic Manure by Bhavdeep Kang
IN GREEN-LIGHTING the new “nutrient- based” fertiliser policy, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee pulled off a political coup, overriding the objections of the once-powerful UPA allies, DMK and NCP. What’s more, it is those very critics who will be responsible for the actual delivery of benefits to farmers under the new scheme — which is a tall order. With Mamata Banerjee’s TMC putting in only a token caveat, the reservations of Union...
More »'Gujarat police one of the least paid in country' by Parth Shastri
Top cops of Gujarat might have some reasons to worry. The 53rd all-India police duty meet (AIPDM) at Karai and Gandhinagar is proving to be more than just an opportunity to compare of notes for police personnel. Here the cops are actually discussing pay packets. And, as it turns out — Gujarat cops are among the worst paid police personnel of the country. “Even states like Bihar pay more to...
More »Posco caught between promise & protest by Subrat Das
The $12 billion mega steel plant project of South Korean behemoth Posco proposed to be set up near Paradip port hangs in balance between promise and protest. While chief minister Naveen Patnaik assured the South Korean president, Lee Myung-Bak, to expedite the much-delayed project, anti-plant protesters have launched an indefinite dharna opposing the project. “I assured the South Korean President that the Posco steel plant project will be expedited. Of course, our...
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