How to assess disasters: 8 Indian states adopt global standards

Separate window by 15th finance commission for carrying out Post-Disaster Needs Assessment

Odisha to relocate 420 families from Debrigarh wildlife sanctuary in Bargarh district

The relocation will reduce human-animal conflicts and provide basic amenities like electricity, road and healthcare to the villagers

Victims of rehabilitation

To swindle money from the Narmada dam rehabilitation scheme, lands of thousands of tribal families have been given to the dam-displaced people …

All encephalitis-affected states to get counselling centres soon

Reason for spread of Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in India still unknown

Concerns over Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project

Many takers of a park

Disowned 100,000

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

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 …

Cleaning Nepal, brick by brick

The 2015 earthquake has given Nepal an opportunity to adopt cleaner brick kiln technologies

IN SHORT

Fissures in West Bengal's Left government over land acquisition

POSCO review body divided

Members differ on steel giant’s compliance with regulations

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 …

Land Bill: public mandate used to push private interests

Democratic choice held hostage to cash: A tale of Odisha's urban poor

Though political parties deny such claims and these “incidents” often go unnoticed, the truth is that the poor consider elections to …

Assam's nowhere people

The state has lost more than seven per cent of its area to erosion because of floods. The result: thousands of displaced people in makeshift …

CHILE

Taungyas get legal recognition

Land titles distributed to 651 families in six Uttar Pradesh villages

Misguided rules

Environment ministry framed guidelines which violate Forest Rights Act

Eviction images

Heavy metal

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

Protestors were demonstrating against land forcibly acquired for plant

S Kumars loses defamation appeal against Narmada activists

Narmada Bachao Andolan cites cheating and fraud cases registered by police in support of its press statement against S Kumars and state financial …

GoM clears Land Acquisition Bill

Makes compulsory approval of the gram sabhas for acquiring land in tribal areas

African migration to Europe: Forced returns run into resistance

Returns are low in part because European policy makers ignore competing issues and interests African stakeholders face