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 …
Rishi Raj, Rajat Guha : Vedanta Aluminium is in the thick of allegations of having violated Forests Act by carrying out construction near its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa. However, in an interview with FE's Rajat Guha and Rishi Raj, the company's chief operating officer Mukesh Kumar denied all …
C Shivakumar L&T; Ramboll's alignment along NH 4 will reduce human displacement, cut monetary and social cost, ensure easy green nod and help complete the project in a shorter duration -- Petitioner M Perumal A writ petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking change of alignment of …
Prafulla Das KALINGANAGAR: The upcoming steel hub in Orissa's Jajpur district appeared to be a war zone on Friday, with policemen surrounding hundreds of tribals, who were opposing the construction of a common corridor road to give access to Tata Steel's six million tonne proposed steel mill. Three days after …
Dhanbad, April 2: Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) has requested the state government to utilise the extra money it has paid as royalty cess for 2009- 10 fiscal to execute the Rs 7,028-crore master plan to rehabilitate the victims of a raging underground fire in Jharia. Chairman-cum-managing director of Bharat …
Gujarat crossed yet another hurdle in its troubled journey to the Narmada Dam, with the environment sub-committee of the Narmada Control Authority (NCA) giving its nod for further construction. At its meeting in Delhi on Thursday, the nodal agency for monitoring the dam
Villagers participate in the protest under the banner of PPSS Activists of PPSS have been staging dharna since January 26 CPI leader draws three lines at entry point as
South Korean steel major Posco has finally started talks with anti-displacement forums to garner support in favour of its Rs 52,000-cr steel project at Kujang near Paradip in Orissa.
For Samarin seeing a tiger is as casual as her monthly sightings of the ration store supplier. “They come sometimes but as long as we mind our own business, they don’t do any harm,” she says, working in her small farm in the middle of the forest, her baby slung …
New report on impacts of mining on children by HAQ, Samata and mm&P shows that children & their communities are not part of the growth that mining promises. It addresses loopholes in the policy & demands an assessment of children’s status in mining areas. This report provides a glimpse into …
- Rs 7,028cr fire zone rehab plan gets underway More than a decade after it was conceptualised, the Rs 7,028-crore master plan to rehabilitate 200,000-odd victims of a raging underground fire in Jharia was implemented today with the allotment of over 200 new flats at Belgarhia in Baliapur, a safe …
Gargi Parsai The Narmada dam (Sardar Sarovar Project) needs a review not funds, Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar said here on Tuesday, slamming the Gujarat government's push for seeking permission to raise the height of the dam when over 2 lakh families of tribals, farmers, fish workers, artisans and …
DEEPAL TRIVEDI GANDHINAGAR JD(U) Gujarat unit chief and MLA from Jhagadia (south Gujarat) Chhotu Vasava has been charged with encroaching on 800 acres of land in Bharuch district given to people affected by the Narmada project, government officials have confirmed. The Bharuch district authorities, in a report to the state …
Gandhinagar, 21 March: Janata Dal(U) Gujarat unit chief Mr Chhotubhai Vasava has been charged with encroaching on 800 acres of land, given to the Narmada project affected people, in Bharuch district, government officials said. The Bharuch district authorities, in a report to the state authorities, have held that the land …
Foundation stone laid for shifting of Basapur B.S. Yeddyurappa BASAPUR (Dharwad District):Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa expressed the hope that the construction of about 65,000 houses for people displaced by floods would be completed before the onset of monsoon. Addressing a gathering after laying the foundation stone for shifting of Basapur …
Dhanbad, March 18: Come March 25, 120 families, displaced by an underground fire in Jharia, will find new homes at Belgarhia in Baliapur. With both BCCL and Jharia Rehabilitation Development Authority (JRDA) speeding up efforts to shift people from the fire-ravaged zone, allotment letters for flats will be handed over …
AHMEDABAD: Civic body's relocation of slum dwellers living along the Sabarmati riverfront has drawn flak from the affected families. As many as 200 families protested against the relocation drive of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) from their present location on riverfront to far off areas in Vatva, Naroda, among other areas …
