Land purchase deals amid gunshots in Jharkhand village investigations into the murder of four security guards at a proposed power plant in Jharkhand are revealing uncomfortable truths about industrialization in the state. The company that wants to buy land in Chakla village of Latehar district called the guards martyrs and held Maoist rebels responsible for the murders. Sources in the

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Company chokes water supply of 25 families in Karnataka Kamala Shetty, resident of Kuthethoor village in Mangalore, was distressed when she looked into her well on a sunny April morning. The water, she found, was laced with oil. It

A group of farmers from Kralpora village near Bandipore in north Kashmir held a protest here today seeking

The Government will appoint a surveyor firm within a month to assess the compensation of the victims of the Barapukuria Coalmine areas to establish the proposed coalmine city in Dinajpur, Energy Ministry sources said.

The Government has taken decision following recommendation of the eight-member committee, formed for assessing compensation of affected people of Barapukuria coal mining.

Pune It has taken 13 years but a definite step has finally been taken towards setting up the second phase of the Chakan airport - a move that could result in more automobile and ancillary companies setting up shop in Pune.

Deputy Commissioner N Prabhakar has said that in the first week of this month, in a few taluks in the district due to rain and storm the farmers have suffered nearly Rs 98.40 lakh crops loss and Rs 2.70 lakh loss to property.

The district administration had conducted a survey in this regard.

Marine protected areas have put thousands of fishers out of business. It doesn

Aizawl: Officials on Monday maintained that compensation had been provided to the affected people of the 12 MW Serlui B hydel project which is nearing completion even as reports poured in that some families had refused to move out of the affected site alleging non-payment of compensation.

Durgapur, May 11: The government will acquire within two months 500 acres from farmers in Burdwan who had themselves offered their single-crop land for industrialisation two years ago.

When the district administration issued a notification for the acquisition recently, none of them raised any objection. In a newspaper ad yesterday, it announced the decision to take over the 500 acres.