Volunteer organisation Zahreeli Gas Kand Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal, fighting for the rights of the gas victims for the last 26 years, is planning to send around 30,000 to 35,000 memorandums to the Prime Minister, in which the demand would be made that the compensation amount must be hiked after assuming the numbers of victims as 5.21 lakh.

Morcha convener Alok Pratap Singh claims that the Governm

Haldwani: Amid increasing man-animal conflicts in recent years, people from over a dozen forest villages surrounding Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR) rejected Government

Bhopal, Jan 4: So far Rs 12 crore 68 lakh has been given as livelihood to 5 thousand 747 self-help groups in 14 backward districts of the state where the second phase of District Poverty Initiative Project (DPIP) is being implemented during the year 2010-11.

Encouraging results have been yielded by Janani Express, Janani Sahyogi and Janani Suraksha schemes implemented by the state government with a view to bringing down mother mortality rate (MMR) in Madhya Pradesh. More than 18 lakh women have been benefited by these schemes this year following which MMR has come down to 335 per lakh from 370 per lakh.

Footsoldiers Of Conservation Or Contract Labour?
BY M D MADHUSUDAN & PAVITHRA SANKARAN
It was an hour after dawn. Siddarama, a forest watcher, was walking to the tiger reserve

With the BRT Wildlife Sanctuary in Karnataka going to get a tiger reserve status, the Soligas living there face imminent eviction.

NEVER before have the tigers of the Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple (BRT) Wildlife Sanctuary burned so bright, either in popular imagination or in administrative priority.

Imphal, Dec 27: Manipur faced extreme hardship in the year 2010 and people still continue to fight to ward off the hard days as they prepare to welcome the New Year. Employees stir, blockade on national highway, non availability of essential items, holding of Autonomous District Council election, death of Speaker were the main headlines of 2010.

The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-to-mouth farmers alarming news: their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were now controlled by Libya