Bangalore, DHNS: Now, NREGS (National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) beneficiaries can take up works in their private land too... Rural Development and Panchayat Raj department has taken the decision to allow works related to rain water harvesting and afforestation under the scheme in private land. Since the introduction of the scheme (Feb 2005), works were allowed only in the government land.

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"There is widespread sense of outrage amongst the country's coastal communities,' says Harekrishna Debnath, chairperson of the National Fishworkers' Forum. The indignation stems from the loss of

Two pieces of legislation, which will impact millions of people displaced or threatened with displacement in the name of development, will soon come up for discussion in the monsoon session of

Thousands of Mexicans took to the streets on April 27 to protest an energy reform proposal, which they say would allow more private investment in the country's oil industry. The energy reform

In a move to improve and regulate the healthcare system in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria, the state government has shut down 184 private hospitals, clinics and laboratories. Private