Dhanbad: The public investment bureau (PIB) has shown the green light to a Rs 6,997-crore Jharia rehabilitation package and it is just a matter of time before the Union Cabinet puts its stamp of approval. But the million dollar question is who will convince some 400,000 residents to evacuate the danger zone, where an underground fire has been raging for more than 90 years?

Kanika Datta / New Delhi October 16, 2008, 0:17 IST

NEW DELHI

The farmers of eight villages from Kanjhawala area in northwest Delhi, who have been demanding higher compensation against land acquisition from the Delhi government, have demanded that the government should denotify all land acquisition and first come up with a detailed report on how much land is left for agricultural purposes.

Gargi Parsai

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee with Samajwadi Party leaders Amar Singh, Jayaprada and others coming out after submitting a memorandum to President Pratibha Patil on the Singur issue, in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Rahi Gaikwad

MUMBAI: Ahead of the State Cabinet meeting, usually slated for Wednesday, Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar and people affected by various projects in Maharashtra protested outside Tilak Bhawan, the Congress party headquarters in Mumbai.

Police rushed to the spot and brought Ms. Patkar and the agitators to Azad Maidan by 2.15 p.m.

Pune, October 14 Social activist Medha Patkar has demanded the appointment of an inquiry committee to probe into the land acquisition and diversion of water for developmental projects. Patkar who was in Pune on Monday is touring the state to take up issues of those, who have to bear the ill affect of industrialisation.

Villagers vote on Mumbai SEZ in a historic referendum on september 21, amid tight police security, 22 villages in Pen taluka of Maharashtra

People in Jharkhand resort to peaceful protests, state at its diplomatic best in several parts of Jharkhand, tribals have come out in peaceful protests against industrialization. On September 11, when three surveyors of Bhushan Power and Steel Limited (bpsl) started measuring the fields in Roladih village in East Singhbhum

Chandigarh, October 12 As you sow, so shall you reap, goes the old saying. But it took nine years and a trying time running from pillar to post for a Mukstar-based agriculturist to finally be awarded with compensation for the

Sreelatha Menon / Kanjhawla (new Delhi) October 13, 2008, 0:07 IST

The state and the farmer are once again at the crossroads and the battle this time is being played out right in the national capital on the Delhi-Haryana border village of Kanjhawla.