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After 20 years If the bombs didn't kill, the land will. Afghanistan's natural resources are all but dead

SUBSIDISED KILLING

AS FAR AS the eye can see, it is a mass of horns in a desiccated, semi-arid landscape. The horns emerge sideways from the head, turn up, and then arch back at the tips, as if swept back by the wind. Kankrej, native to northern Gujarat, is quite a regal-looking breed of cattle.

Letter

People the focal point The editorial “Lessons from Kakarapalli” (September 1-15, 2011) is a wake-up call for industries eyeing land and other resources of poor people.

Lavasa above law

India’s maiden planned hill city that made news for bending rules and undertaking unauthorised construction may get the Centre’s nod, after all. The buzz is the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) may give conditional clearance to Lavasa, which is being developed in the Western Ghats, 65 km from Pune.

Bombay high court gives six weeks' time to Lavasa

The Bombay High Court has given Lavasa Corporation Ltd six weeks' time to submit documents demanded by the Union ministry of environment and forests. Lavasa has time till March 10 to pacify the ministry, which had ordered the corporation to stop work on November 25 last year saying the township project violated the Environment Protection Act. The high court order came on January 27.

FLIP SIDE

Growth also needs resources Resources requirement for projected production levels, bau and lc, will be many times the current.

Colonial straitjacket

India should develop

  State of strife  

Land acquisition, rehabilitation bills cater to corporate interests

Two pieces of legislation, which will impact millions of people displaced or threatened with displacement in the name of development, will soon come up for discussion in the monsoon session of Parliament. ngos and activists, however, warn that rather than addressing the issue of forcible displacement, the twin bills--Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, 2007, and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2007--will set the ground for aiding corporate interests in land.

SEZ, port expansion perils Andhra's tribal people

an international fact-finding mission, which visited Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district recently, has expressed concern over the displacement and loss of livelihoods of tribal communities due to construction of special economic zones in the district and expansion of the Krishnapatnam port.