-Outlook   In a boost to ongoing land acquisition for Posco project, Orissa government today accepted all the six core demands of the residents of plant site villages, including jobs and other facilities, officials said. "The demands of villagers are justified and, therefore, we accepted them. We have assured the members of United Action Committee (UAC) that the state government will consider their case sympathetically," Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC) P K Mohapatra...

Singur , Greater Noida , Posco, Jaitapur and so on. The issue of land acquisition seems to now have acquired dimensions which political parties are finding it difficult to deal with. As each state faces political problems, it has tried to pass on the buck to the Centre arguing that they are merely doing what the central Land Acquisition Act 1894 (the Act) allows them to do. The implication is that...

-The Times of India   Babli Devi can finally hope for justice if the CBI inquiry into her husband's death comes to fruition. The wife of the MGNREGA workersubal Mahto, allegedly killed for asking for his wages after digging a well, has welcomed the proposal of a CBI inquiry by the Centre. The 50-year-old resident of Bhatua village of Bokaro had died on February 19 after being thrashed by his contractor...

-The Times of India   The state government on Monday took yet another step forward in ensuring smooth land acquisition for the mega Posco steel plant in Jagatsinghpur, assuring to fulfil certain demands of a pro-industry outfit having considerable clout in the project area. At a meeting in Cuttack, the revenue divisional commissioner (central range) Pradipta Mohapatra assured representatives of the United Action Committee (UAC) that the government would consider fulfiling...

How the global garment industry is using regressive customs in Tamil Nadu, enabling it to exploit young women workers… Behind the smiling exterior of a fast-growing economy lie the tears and tragedies of women like these workers. Girls. Dowry. The two go together. No matter what you do to separate them, they somehow get conjoined, like twins that have remained connected in one body. We are told this is one of the...