-The Hindu   Drawing attention to the situation in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa, where villagers are peacefully opposing forcible acquisition of their private and forest lands by the Orissa Government for South Korean steel major Posco's project, a report titled “Tearing through the water landscape: Evaluating the environmental and social consequences of Psco project in Orissa, India” was released here on Tuesday. “People have been against industrialisation of their land since November...

“Government will not be able to face the consequences of my satyagraha” Yoga guru Ramdev on Monday asked the Centre to immediately accept his demands, even as more non-Congress parties were expected to support him in his anti-corruption crusade. He said the government would not be able to face the consequences of his satyagraha. Talking to reporters, he said seeking justice for the nation was no crime. He thanked the Supreme...

-NDTV   Civil society members of the Lokpal Bill drafting committee are to meet today after sulking for a day, over the events surrounding Baba Ramdev's eviction from his protest fast at the Ramlila Maidan on Sunday. Terming the incidents at the Ramlila Maidan as the reason for their boycott on Monday, the five-member team of civil society representatives led by Gandhian Anna Hazare condemned the Centre for the midnight police action on...

-IANS   The Supreme Court Monday issued notices to union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai and Delhi police chief B.K. Gupta asking them to explain the circumstances under which yoga guru Baba Ramdev and his supporters were forcibly evicted from Delhi's Ramlila Ground. A notice was also issued to Delhi Chief Secretary P.K. Tripathi. All the three have been asked to respond to the notice within two weeks. Ramdev and thousands of his supporters who...

Like millions of others across India, I have spent the past week repelled by the spectacle of a weak government entering into improbable contortions over the naive and somewhat bizarre demands of Baba Ramdev. And when the “toughness” followed in the early hours of Sunday, it came in a typically cowardly fashion — with police action in the dead of the night against unarmed supporters who did not pose an...