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BHUBANESWAR: For a slum-dweller, owning a concrete house is a dream!

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One year ago, if you had uttered the words “Dongria Kondh”at a dinner table, only anthropologists and human rights activists would have lit up. Most others would have reacted with blank stares. Someone might even have asked if you were speaking in a foreign language. Today, the Dongria Kondh people living in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa are celebrities.

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Officials of the Mumbai Board of Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) are taking forward a plan to redevelop two of their major colonies in gross misuse of the Slum Act. The colonies have been categorised as slums despite the Mhada Act making it categorical that none of the colonies belonging to the authority could be developed under the Slum Act. In a letter written to

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LUCKNOW: Evicting tribals and traditional dwellers from tiger reserves is not always the solution. Creating a stake for them in reserves could also be an option. The biggest tiger reserve of the country, Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam has its security manned by its tribal folks `Chenchus'.

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Dhanbad, Aug. 31: Several thousand victims of a raging underground fire will no longer have to do the rounds of Jharia Rehabilitation Authority (JRDA) office.

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Under pressure to act against the anti-Naxal Salwa Judum, the Chhattisgarh Government faced fresh trouble with the Supreme Court requiring information on rehabilitation provided to tribals displaced due to mining and other developmental activities. On Tuesday, the apex court heard a PIL filed by academicians Nandini Sundar, Ramachandra Guha and EAS Sarma on the State’s coyness to act against Sa

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BHUBANESWAR/SAMBALPUR: Even as western Orissa continues to reel under a sudden outbreak of the H1N1, nine Chinese nationals were rushed to the VSS Medical College and Hospital with suspected symptoms on Monday. The Chinese nationals are part of a 55- member team working for establishment of the power plant of Sterlite Energy Ltd at Jharsuguda.

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Express news service Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has reiterated the need to control population even as choosing not to support efforts made during Emergency to achieve the objective. Speaking at a function in Bhopal on Sunday, Chouhan had lauded the efforts made by Sanjay Gandhi during Emergency for population control.

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What is common between Niyamgiri hills in Kalahandi district of Orissa and a place near Umiam lake in East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya? Both are among the finest addresses for nature lovers.

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The state government has prepared a strategy to provide 100-day job to 10 lakh most deprived families under Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in this fiscal. "These targeted 10 lakh people would include 5 lakh the most poor families and the rest, 5 lakh, would be women," Secretary Rural Development Manoj Singh said here on Sunday. He said to start with the

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