Disowned 100,000

Taungyas have lived in Uttar Pradesh for decades but law does not recognise them. FRA gives hope

Bending rules

How Vedanta's refinery came up

Is it a forest?

How different agencies see it

Deaf to nuclear plant protests

Government tries to begin work on the 1,400 MW plant in Madhya Pradesh

Controversy over uranium mining project in Meghalaya

Duplicity

City on trial

Chandigarh resists luxury residential project but fails to rehabilitate its slum population to preserve its master plan

907 km from parliament

In the past two months, India has revisited its most contested dam, the Sardar Sarovar Project. While people affected by it in Madhya Pradesh …

Scorching salt

As the world celebrates yet another Environment Day, groups of marginalized people in some part of the globe or the other get evicted from their …

Climate shocks, conflicts worsen displacement in Mozambique: UNHCR

Mozambique dealing with climate-induced migration in south, conflict-induced migration in north

POSCO gets final clearance

Environment ministry sides with Odisha government, ignores people’s forest rights

Mining firms set up shop in Orissa

Lanjigarh block, Kalahandi, Orissa, May 17: At its summit, the northeastern ridge of the Niyamgiri hill range has a bald patch, typical of …

In Focus

NO TO DAMS

Udipi farmers' land taken over for thermal power plant

Fissures in West Bengal's Left government over land acquisition

POSCO review body divided

Members differ on steel giant’s compliance with regulations

Desperate for dam

Government skews facts to plan a project in Rajasthan that will displace 100,000 people

Mundra SEZ spells displacement for fisherfolk

Tigers in, people out

1,620.361 ha of discontent

Special economic zones and sit-ins. Mega-projects and marches. Public-private partnerships and pitched battles. Precociously, because they are …

Misguided rules

Environment ministry framed guidelines which violate Forest Rights Act

Thin end of wedge

Why Vedanta's success will be bad news

Big impact

Mining will tax area's natural resources

Taungyas get legal recognition

Land titles distributed to 651 families in six Uttar Pradesh villages