Ranchi, Feb. 28: Eighteen villages of Ranchi district will be the first to receive community rights over local natural resources under the forest act in Jharkhand by next month.

The Government on Tuesday swung into action mode on the issue of foreign-funded NGOs protesting against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu.

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu police on Monday arrested a 50-year-old German national who allegedly raised funds for protests against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant.

New Delhi: In a first, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has given 12-digit Identification Number (ID) to 89,000 inhabitants of Ballabhgarh in Haryana to keep track of health care

Consider this: The government’s revenue mop-up stood at Rs 5.2 lakh crore for the first nine months of 2011-12. The target for the entire fiscal was Rs 8.4 lakh crore.

THEY WERE subjected to inhuman exploitation since Independence.

Left to the Union panchayati raj and tribal affairs minister, Mr V Kishore Chandra Deo, the Poscos and Vedantas of the world would not get mining leases in tribal strongholds.

After the Integrated Action Plan (IAP) for Naxal-hit districts, Congress-led UPA government is planning to introduce another ambitious plan to provide livelihood to the affected people through the

Tribal leaders outrightly rejected any move to change the CNT Act and lambasted some of the tribal leaders and political class that have advocated changes in century-old Land Act.