-Outlook Paradip (Odisha): Land acquiSITion for the proposed mega steel plant of Posco is likely to resume tomorrow despite a day-long oppoSITion by local residents, officials said. Odisha government halted land acquiSITion activities for Posco's proposed Rs 52,000 crore mega steel plant project for a day today in view of stiff oppoSITion from locals. "The process is on though we have halted the land acquiSITion activities for one day," Jagatsinghpur district collector S...

-The Hindu Thousands of acres of uncultivable forested hills in Haryana, Gurgaon and Faridabad face the same prospect Gurgaon: Two decades ago when Sunil’s parents sold off 25 acres of their family’s share of land in the Mangar forests of Faridabad, they and other villagers thought the buyers were fools to buy it up because they were assured that they could continue to use it for grazing cattle and firewood. Today, 25-year-old...

-The Hindu The Suryanelli case in Kerala cast its lengthening shadow over the Congress on Thursday, with the rape victim’s mother asking party president Sonia Gandhi to act against Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P. J. Kurien, whom she places at the heart of the 40-day-long nightmare her daughter underwent 17 years ago — a crime for which not one of the 42 accused persons has been punished to date. The woman...

-The Hindu Bhubaneshwar: Even as land acquiSITion for the proposed steel project of Posco remained suspended at Gobindpur village in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha on Thursday, villagers staged a demonstration demanding complete withdrawal of the police from the locality. Leading the protest, Communist Party of India leader D. Raja condemned the entry of police into Gobindpur during night on Sunday when land acquiSITion was resumed after a gap of more than a...

-The Hindustan Times It is a small step that can add up to a big change. A government department has started putting online important policy files relating to the right to information law, beginning with documents that provide an insight into selection of central information commissioners. “We have received approval to upload all important files on the SITe — persmin.nic.in — once the final decision has been taken and the matter is...