Etching new pathways to growth
The question is whether the protests across the world can be channelled to shape a better tomorrow According to Time magazine, the 2011 person of the year is “the protester”. Clearly, this is the image
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Port Blair bench allows resort that may endanger Jarawas THE Calcutta High Court has cleared the construction of a holiday resort near the forest area reserved for the threatened Jarawa tribe in South Andamans. The Andaman administration had appealed against building the resort saying it was within the five-kilometre buffer zone of the reserve and would endanger the tribe
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Ore clouds Jindal kick-off
Calcutta, Jan. 5: The corruption paranoia, blamed for the policy paralysis at the Centre, is threatening to take a toll on Bengal by clouding the timetable of the much-delayed Jindal steel plant at Salboni.
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Ullawas villagers protest land lease to Gandhi Trust
<p> Ram Singh, a venerable former sarpanch of Ullawas village, looks around unceasingly, boiling with despair as the void stares back at him. Like Singh, every face in the village is contested by many feelings at once — from agony to anger, staring straight at their face an uncertain future.</p> <p> Ullawas has been home to over 100 families, who took pride in tilling their farmland to earn their living. It is now on the verge of losing livelihood to the frenzied urbanisation plans of the Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Haryana government.</p>
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Government allots Rs 1,343 crore for road work
KOCHI: The PWD will soon start the road work for Rs1,343 crore allotted by the Finance Department, said Public Works Minister V K Ebrahim Kunju. After a review meeting of the top officials of PWD here
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HC reserves hearing on Nano land case
AHMEDABAD: After a lengthy hearing, Gujarat High Court on Wednesday reserved its order in connection with local farmers petitions demanding compensation for 1,100-acre land sold by state government to Tata Motors for its Nano car project.
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Block and roll revolution
The district shot to national prominence when it elected Sonia Gandhi to the Lok Sabha, but in more recent times, Bellary in Karnataka has stayed in the news because of its mining tycoons"the Gali Reddy brothers, two of whom are members of the state Cabinet.
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Distorting the rules
The Government of Madhya Pradesh was initially supposed to undertake the process of land acquisition for the families displaced by the Indira Sagar Project (ISP), but it handed over the responsibility
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HC rejects villagers' claim on Nano land
AHMEDABAD: Villagers claiming compensation for the plot in Sanand taluka, which the state government leased out to Tata Motors for Nano car project, have miserably failed to prove their ownership on the land before the Gujarat High Court.
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Govt to expedite Dharavi rehab plan
Maharashtra Cabinet changes norms to make present occupiers of slums eligible for rehabilitation. Ahead of the crucial elections to the Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation next month, the Maharashtra government on Monday took a crucial decision with regard to the eligibility of the occupiers of slums for rehabilitation with cut off date of January 1, 2000 and of those structures which have come up prior to January 1, 1995, in the city.
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Bhushan Steel’s Bengal Plant Lands in Acquisition Trouble
Mamata Banerjee govt against acquiring land for industry; uncertain partner adds to woes. Bhushan Steel has put on hold its proposed Rs 20,000-crore steel project in West Bengal due to the state government’s
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Elevated rail corridor plans may see major changes
MUMBAI: Western Railways' plans for a 60-km elevated high-speed rail corridor from Churchgate to Virar may undergo major changes due to concerns over cost and space. Lack of funds may force officials to
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PWD plans 50 projects in state
KOCHI: The Public Works Department (PWD) has formulated 50 projects which will be implemented in the state soon, PWD Minister V K Ebrahim Kunju has said. “Most of these projects have already begun.
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Farming money: how European banks and private finance profit from food speculation and land grabs
European banks, pension funds and insurance companies are increasing global hunger and poverty by speculating on food prices and financing land grabs in poorer countries, according to Farming Money, a
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State seeks Railway land for industry
In a bid to put counter pressure on Railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee for her alternative proposal for Singur, the state government now wants unutilised land belonging to the Railways for setting up of industrial parks for micro and small-scale industries.
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Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG) on Government of Odisha
This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG) on Government of Odisha relates to matters arising from Performance Audit of selected department, programmes / schemes and Compliance
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Gujarat HC rejects farmers' petitions on Tata Nano land
The Gujarat High Court has dismissed two separate petitions of farmers demanding compensation for the land transferred by the Gujarat government to Tata Motors Ltd for the Nano car project.
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Nano year over, Mamata now talks industry in Singur
Having driven Tata Motors away from Singur, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday unveiled her own industrial plan for the abandoned site in Hooghly district. It won
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Owners deprived of compensation for acquired land
There have been allegations by No 52 National Highway Land Preservation Demand Committee that the government has shown an apathetic attitude towards them in distribution of compensation to the owners of the acquired land along NH 52 for widening of a 31-km stretch of the highway from Dirak to Rupai.
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Mamata for coach factory at Singur
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today said her ministry was prepared to set up a rail coach factory at Singur, provided 600 acres of the 1,000-acre land earlier acquired by the Tatas to set up the