The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) has been recognised at the national level.

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Members of Kadar tribe to be relocated to Vazhachal

The settlement of the Kadar tribe at Kuriyarkutty, 8 km inside the core area of Parambikulam Tiger Reserve, will now be shifted to Vazhachal as per the wishes of the majority of this primitive tribal group. The authorities had been trying to shift them for long but only 72 of the 78 families had agreed to the resettlement scheme. “Unless all the 78 families consented to the relocation, the project cannot be implemented,” said K. Vijayanandan, the Wildlife Warden of the reserve.

SAMBALPUR: Displaced by Hirakud dam project, the fishermen residing in periphery villages of Hirakud dam reservoir (HDR) are finding it difficult to eke out a living.

AHMEDABAD: The recent price rise may be pinching your pockets, but for the price conscious Amdavadi here is some good news. The city has been rated by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) as 19th in the world, in terms of economic strength.

Apart from this, the only other Indian city ranked in the same sub-category is Bangalore at 16th. Of the 20 cities listed by EIU under the category of economic strength, 15 cities belong to Asia, while Ahmedabad and Bangalore are the only two Indian cities.

With just about 30 per cent of its villages covered under the Scheduled Tribe and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, so far, the Odisha Government is more t

Four suspected cases of female infanticide in Jaisalmer this month

In a severe blow to the Rajasthan government’s campaign to save the girl child, four suspected cases of female infanticide have come up in Jaisalmer district since early this month. The shocking cases involve newborn girls either being starved to death or left to die without medical treatment during sickness. According to police sources, the suspicious cases have been recorded in different areas after the parents of baby girls allegedly left them to die of hunger and thirst.

Almost a year after Saranda was wrested out of Maoist control by security forces, large numbers of tribal families living in the dense forests of the Jharkhand district have found themselves left out in the cold when it comes to government assistance.

“We discovered that just about 3,000 of the 7,000-odd forest dwelling tribal families in Saranda are on the BPL [below poverty line] list,” says Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh. Those not on the list are not eligible for the Central government’s welfare schemes.

After a wait of seven long years, the greenfield steel project of Posco in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district may be a reality with the state government readying an instrument of renewal for the proje