The last mayor of Kathmandu

Aditya Batra in conversation with Keshab Sthapit, a mayor famous for muscling his way to urban renewal

Mango resistance

Farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s mango belt are clear they will not allow Lucknow’s solid waste facility on their dashehari land

POSCO begins work on boundary wall at steel plant site in Odisha

Move violates stay order of National Green Tribunal, say protesting activists

Tiger reserved

Tiger tourism booms without proper regulation; new guidelines attempt to contain damage

Package POSCO

The Odisha government is trying to acquire land on a shoddily drawn compensation package

Last ditch attempt

UPA gives sops under MGNREGS to attract rural voters ahead of elections

UPA's development report card

A look at the progress of the Congress-led alliance's flagship programmes

Farmers move court against Gorakhpur nuclear power plant in Haryana

Plant site is fertile land and sustains 10,000 people

Nagpur's dilemma: coal or metropolitan region?

Farmers say developing metropolitan region a better deal

Lessons from Kakarapalli

Waterbullying to sink 20 villages

Odisha diaries: the struggle for community control over land, forests and natural resources

No matter how much compensation is promised, companies will need ‘a social licence’ to conduct business on the land of the people

Stop forceful land acquisition for Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor project, say farmers of Raigad

They want state to follow the proposed land acquisition Bill likely to be passed soon by Parliament

Agrarian crisis: farmers from 15 states protest at Delhi Jantar Mantar

They demand moratorium on land acquisition; farmers' suicides, falling incomes and GMOs on list of concerns

Grasslands in Western Ghats diverted for resort construction

The 120 room, five-star luxury resort is being built in Chikkamagalur district of Karnataka in association with international hotel chains

Notice to Mundra for flouting laws

Environment ministry asks to reply within 15 days why the clearance should not be revoked

Letters

POSCO faces fresh litigation, protest

Uncertainty looms over its $12 billion steel plant project in Odisha

The town farmers built

Letters

Suzlon, Lavasa raised loans from the company named in bribery scam

Scam led to arrest of several top officials of public sector banks

Violence at POSCO site

Clashes erupt as government resumes construction of coastal road at Jagatsinghpur in Odisha

Bokaro's displaced still await compensation

Residents of most villages whose land was acquired for the Bokaro steel plant have no jobs or means of living. Those who were compensated are …

POSCO villages resist land acquisition by Odisha government

Despite protests administration demolishes 37 betel gardens on the forestland. Land acquistion put on hold till June 17

Lavasa above law

Lavasa continues to bypass norms. But the environment ministry may give clearance to the the maiden planned hill city in India, Sakshi C Dasgupta …