-The Times of India BHAWANIPATNA: Vedanta Aluminium Ltd's plan to mine Niyamgiri hills got dashed on Monday with the seventh gram sabha opposing the move. The Supreme Court had ordered gram sabhas to vote on bauxite Mining in the hills. All six gram sabhas - three in Kalahandi district and three in Rayagada - rejected the proposal. There will be five more such meets, but the result is clear: the tribal...
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UP IAS officer who took on sand mafia suspended -Dipankar Ghose
-The Indian Express Noida (Uttar Pradesh): The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday suspended an IAS officer who had taken on the sand mafia by clamping down on illegal Mining in the Yamuna and Hindon riverbeds over the last few months. Durga Shakti Nagpal, a 2009-batch IAS officer posted as Sub Divisional Magistrate (Sadar) in Gautam Buddh Nagar, had impounded several trucks engaged in illegal quarrying and registered over 20 FIRs. The reason cited...
More »Bhagwati vs Sen: Poverty data gives the verdict-Mayank Mishra
-The Business Standard Growth, not entitlement, reduces poverty, according to the latest data The numbers may seem unrealistic, but the broad indication is loud and clear: among all available medicines, growth seems to be the most effective medicine against poverty at the moment. According to the recently released poverty data, states like Odisha, Bihar and Rajasthan have done well when it comes to reducing poverty in the last seven years. And these...
More »Palli Sabha: K'handi tribals too say ‘no' to Mining-Ajit Panda
-The Pioneer BHAWANIPATNA (Bhubaneswar): The Palli Sabha of Tadijhola village in Trilochanpur Gram Panchayat of Kalahandi held on Tuesday unanimously declared that the villagers would not allow Mining in the Niyamgiri Hills. "Niyam Raja is our father and Niyamgiri hills, our mother. Hence, we will not allow Vedanta to snatch it from us," said every villagers of Tadijhola present in the meeting. Out of 22 voters of the village, 19 were present...
More »What links Japan and Jadugoda -Amitava Kumar
-The Times of India I grew up in Patna but the place where I learned to ride a bicycle was Chaibasa. My seventh birthday passed unnoticed because my maternal grandmother had died the previous week, but my parents relented and bought me the promised bicycle. Yesterday, I went back to Chaibasa after more than 40 years. My father was a civil servant who had served for many years in what is now...
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