Police clears way for POSCO

Batons and bullets chase agitators blocking access to steel plant site  

Taken by the horns

Gujarat buckles under farmers’ pressure, shrinks special investment region planned for industries

Stay on land allotment for thermal power plant in Sompeta

Andhra Pradesh government had alloted 394 ha of wetlands terming it wasteland; farmers and fisherman were unhappy

Deep waters

Puducherry's plans for a new port have prompted unprecedented protests. Allegations of a huge land grab facilitated by procedural violations and …

Goa must grow...but how?

On January 26, 2007, the government of Goa withdrew its newest blueprint for the development of the state, called the Regional Plan 2011. …

Four people killed in protests at coal-fired power plant in Bangladesh

Protestors were demonstrating against land forcibly acquired for plant

Tadoba park closed

Bastar beyond Maoists: tale of a rich region and its poor people

The obsession with insurgents is so deep that no one is paying attention to health and education in this ancient and beautiful land

Hunger games – it’s the real India show

The civil spring

Have an aggressive government and an overreaching judiciary curbed dissent?

Land acquisition for Posco begins

Water v industry: where is the question?

Military, militants clash in Nigeria

Tanzanian government evicts pastoralists

Taiwan agrees to shut down nuclear waste dump in Orchid Island

Septic cesspool flood kills nine in Gaza Strip

Government makes Bushmen's return to forests difficult

Chile's Mapuche tribe renew fight for land rights

Package POSCO

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

30,000 farmers demand Hirakud dam water

Western Orissa is witnessing an upheaval. In the eye of the storm is the Hirakud dam. Over 300,000 farmers dependent on its water for irrigation …

Kaziranga loses 10 tigers

Elephant traffic

African ministers call for accelerating actions towards achieving food security

They advocated mainstreaming cross-cutting issues such as gender, nutrition and climate change post-COVID-19

Cheated for bauxite

Andhra Pradesh circumvents all regulations to mine bauxite from tribal land

Lessons from Kakarapalli