An enormous amount of funds (government, multilateral and non-government) flowed into the coastal areas hit by the tsunami of December 2004. But what has been the quality of rehabilitation and what lives do the survivors

The Rajasthan Government on Thursday released the first instalment

The story of Bhopal 1984 is one of ignored warnings, inadequate precautions and absolute indifference to human lives. It was a disaster foretold

Land acquisition for the Science City project in the mandals of Obulacheruvu and Amadaguru in Anantapur district is snowballing into a major controversy in the wake of the Science City Consortium adop

In a political message to West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee that the party is supreme and his industrialization drive needs to be reworked, he was made to announce an industrial policy that for a change emphasizes on land acquisition with caution, proper compensation and rehabilitation.

Hundreds of people defied police and participated in a rally on Tuesday to reiterate their opposition to the setting up of a mega steel plant by Posco-India in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa.

The Bombay High Court at Panjim on Monday directed both the Centre and the Goa government to take a final decision on scrapping Special Economic Zone (SEZs) projects in the State within next six weeks

Hundreds of Japanese people accidentally infected with hepatitis C between the 1970s and 1990s are to be awarded compensation from the government and the drug companies responsible. But thousands of others also affected by the scandal stand to get nothing.

uncertainty continues in Chengara village in south Kerala's Pathanamthitta district where about 10,000 landless people forcibly settled in a rubber plantation in August 2007. The settlers, mostly

manoranjan Das bsc, llb, mca thought his degrees would get him a job at the Vedanta Alumina refinery in Orissa's Lanjigarh block. He had more reasons; one acre of his family land is now part of

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