-The Hindustan Times   On Tuesday, around 60 Congress workers tried to disrupt a public meeting organised by the two Communist parties on the proposed Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant at the City Library Hall in Ratnagiri. Congress workers waved black flags and tried to enter the venue where Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat and CPI leader D Raja were addressing the meeting. The Ratnagiri police resorted to lathi-charge...

NEW DELHI: Sealing the fate of Vedanta's bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri hills of Orissa, Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh cancelled the environmental clearance as well on Monday. He had rejected the forest clearance in an order in August 2010. Ramesh's decision came after TOI had reported that his ministry's project review arm, the Environment Appraisal Committee, had again recommended the project despite the minister's order stating that the environmental clearance...

In contrast to the 1990s, when age-old matters of identity drove electoral politics, it appears that development-related issues such as land acquisition and law and order will play a critical role in the contentious campaign for the UP elections due next year. While this can be attributed to the BSP’s “sarvajan” agenda, it also signals the impact of the market economy and the need to attract private investment, which has...

Farmers are caught between Mayawati’s promises, Rahul Gandhi’s idealism and mounting debts Land acquisition policy in Uttar Pradesh has been changed at least five times in the past five years to benefit the farmers. Amidst the raging controversies over what should be the land compensation rate and debates and protests over the various clauses of the land acquisition policy, most farmers have lost more than they could gain from Mayawati’s new...

-The Deccan Herald The State Congress is all set to toe the line taken by its national leader Rahul Gandhi against ''forc­e­­ful farm land acquisition'' by extending its support to the agitation against the propo­s­ed Posco steel plant at Halligudi village in Gadag district. AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi recently held a march in Uttar Pradesh lending his support to the farmers protesting against land acquisition there.  The Karnataka Pra­­­desh Congress Committee...