-The Times of India Instead of creating happiness in the lives of farmers in adjacent villages, Adani power corporation has rendered them landless as their agricultural land is forcibly acquired by the district administration for requirement of the thermal power company. Once affluent, these farmers have now come below poverty line. Adani Thermal Power Corporation has acquired agricultural land in and around it's thermal power plant near Tiroda (Gondia). The state government gave...

Ten years after the killings in Gujarat, Narendra Modi has neither expressed regret nor has he been held accountable for those mass deaths. Where do we go from here? Anand Teltumbde (tanandraj@gmail.com) is a writer and civil rights activist with the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights, Mumbai.   Just thinking of it, a shiver runs down my spine. I had my own brush with how the Hindutva gangs carried out the...

-The Business Standard Cotton export ban was an example of poor policy The government’s sudden move to ban cotton exports – rolled back in less than a week following anger from cotton farmers and adverse political fallout — reflects very poorly on its policy management. The commerce ministry clamped down on exports without clear logic; prior consultations with other ministries concerned were also cursory or non-existent. Unsurprisingly, most players in the cotton...

-The Hindu Union Minister for Rural Development, Drinking Water and Sanitation Jairam Ramesh announced a national award for sanitation and water in the name of Maharashtrian saint Sant Gadge Baba. The Minister toured several villages in Satara district in maharashtra to inspect the work of the Nirmal Gram Yojana for sanitation on Sunday. The award, constituted in the name of the Saint who strove towards service to society through cleanliness, will be for...

-CNN-IBN   The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) submitted their status report on the Adarsh Society scam was filed in the Bombay High Court on Monday. The court asked the CBI, ED and I-T Department to have a high level meeting to share information so that investigation is quicker. Two former maharashtra chief ministers Ashok Chavan and Vilasraso Dekshmukh have been accused of allotting flats meant for war veterans...