Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
NEW DELHI: The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to send a high-level Group of Ministers to the Narmada Valley to assess
CHENNAI: Natural resources in the country are under threat as vast tracts of land, forest and water reserves are being handed over to Indian affiliates of international finance capital under cover of the eminent domain doctrine, or the state's pre-eminent ownership of land, Binayak Sen, human rights activist and vice-president …
NEW DELHI , May 2: Relief and rehabilitation of around one lakh affected villagers belonging to 61 villages that will be submerged once the Maheshwar Hydel project becomes operational has become the core area of dispute between the Narmada Bachao Andolan and leading textile group S. Kumars. In a recent …
Construction may soon begin on the West Seti Hydroelectric Project (WSHP) in the western region of Nepal. The 750-megawatt facility, which will produce power primarily for export to India, involves construction of a 195-meter high dam on the Seti River that will inundate over 2000 hectares of land. The resulting …
Vedanta University Project is the biggest land grab in the State of Orissa surpassing those in case of any industry planned by the reigning government so far. The MoU signed for the university has placed both Vedanta Foundation, renamed as Anil Agarwal Foundation in 50 days of signing the MoU, …
The 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG) will be held in New Delhi, India, from 3-14 October 2010. Given the many unanswered questions that have marked the CWG process, the Housing and Land Rights Network
People in Indore and the adjoining Pithampur industrial area in Madhya Pradesh are protesting the incineration of Bhopal’s toxic waste near their homes. The waste disposal facility in Pithampur in Dhar district was completed recently. On March 18, the Madhya Pradesh state pollution control board allowed Ramky Enviro, the private …
Humanitarian actors are confronted with the impacts of climate change on a daily basis. This is reflected in this report. The report documents projects by the key organisations involved in humanitarian activities - UN and intergovernmental organisations, NGOs and Red Cross Red Crescent - that contribute to climate change adaptation. …
The interests of both the State and the Maoists are served by reducing the complex and many-layered tragedy unfolding in the forests of Dantewada to a battle between Good and Evil. For the Maoists, the people are subordinate to the revolution; for the government, the people are a minor expendable …
A team of experts from the National Malaria Research Institute (NMRI) is conducting extensive research in Narmada Basin for making preventive strategy to safe guard the health of people affected from various dam reservoirs. On the initiative of Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) , NMRI has agreed to prepare an …
Visakhapatnam, April 14: Criticising the attitude of government towards industrialisation, displacement and rise in pollution levels, Mr San-deep Pandey, social activist and national convenor of the National Alliance of People
The government is considering a proposal to make it mandatory for companies like Vedanta Resources and ArcelorMittal to offer shares to those displaced by their future mining projects. But the move is being opposed by the industry. Mining body, the Federation of Indian Mineral Industry (Fimi), described the proposal as …
Tata Steel, which has embarked on a Rs 15,000-crore project to expand its Jamshedpur plant, has no plans to shelve its proposed Rs 40,000-crore project from Jharkhand
Bhopal: News has spread like wildfire through western India that in its 1 April meeting, the Narmada Control Authority (NCA) Environmental Sub-Group (ESG) has recommended permission for the erection of 17 meter high gates on the Sardar Sarovar Dam (SSP) in Gujarat. If accepted by the NCA, this erection would …
