The central government claims that allowing foreign direct investment into India’s retail sector will benefit small farmers, expand employment and lower food inflation. What has been the experience in India with organised retail so far and what has been the global experience with FDI? Sukhpal Singh (sukhpal@iegindia.org) is currently at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. After being under relentless Attack for a week, the United Progressiv Alliance government was forced to...
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Barefoot: Remembering Kandhamal by Harsh Mander
Kandhamal was not a spontaneous outburst of mass anger. And the victims still await justice. It was a terrifying Christmas in 2007 for tribal and dalit Christians who live in the second poorest, deeply forested district of Odisha, Kandhamal. Long-smouldering violence targeting them exploded, and was to continue to rage for another full year. During this time, 600 villages were ransacked, 5,600 houses were looted and burnt, 54,000 persons rendered homeless,...
More »Protesters threaten to lay siege to nuclear complex at Kudankulam
-The Hindu They set deadline for removing fuel assemblies in KKNPP complex Anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project protesters will lay siege to the upcoming nuclear complex with their family members if works were resumed, and intensify the protest if fuel assemblies stored in the KKNPP complex were not removed before December 31, struggle committee convener S.P. Udayakumar has warned. The deadline has been in the wake of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's announcement in Moscow...
More »SC: Why has LN Mishra murder trial dragged for 37 years? by Dhananjay Mahapatra
The Supreme Court on Thursday wanted to know why trial in the murder of then railway minister L N Mishra, who wielded considerable political clout being close to then PM Indira Gandhi, in a bomb Attack in Samastipur on January 2, 1975 was dragging in the lower court even after 37 years. A 27-year-old advocate, who was arrested in the case and chargesheeted, is now a frail 64 year-old and has...
More »One killed, 20 injured in clash at Posco site by Debabrata Mohanty
A 30-year-old labourer was killed and more than 20 were injured on Wednesday when villagers protesting the Posco steel project clashed with a group of labourers hired by a contractor near the Posco project area of Jagatsinghpur district. The clash occurred near Bosecalis Point at 1.30 pm when anti-Posco villagers came face-to-face with 60-70 labourers of Paradip Paribahan, a private firm that is constructing a 12-km coastal road to link Paradip...
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