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25 September 2017
Kajal (24) is in no hurry to cook dinner for her children who are running around as she sits with her husband, talking and complaining about their ‘neighbours’.
Her husband Santosh, in turn, is in no mood to react to what his wife tells him.
“I have bigger things to worry about. I want the…
19 September 2017
State governments are rushing to build land banks, using both private and common lands, in an effort to attract investment in manufacturing and infrastructure.
In June this year, about a hundred people from Nuagaon village near India’s east coast marched towards a wall that the Odisha government…
19 September 2017
State governments are building land banks, using both private and common lands, to attract investment in manufacturing and infrastructure, but at the cost of people’s rights.
In June this year, about a hundred people from Nuagaon village near India’s east coast marched towards a wall that the…
14 September 2017
BHUBANESWAR: Four bills including the much-awaited Odisha Land Rights to Slum Dwellers Bill, 2017 were passed in the Assembly on Wednesday.Introducing the Odisha Land Rights to Slum Dwellers Bill, 2017 in the Assembly, Housing and Urban Development Minister Niranjan Pujari said it is a historical…
11 September 2017
The Centre will soon set a cut off date for the states to grant tribals and other traditional forest dwellers legal title of the land they have traditionally used.
The sluggish pace at which land titles are being granted to tribals in some states, including the poll-bound Himachal Pradesh, has…
7 September 2017
The proposed Comprehensive Land Survey (CLS) in Telangana appears to have stirred the hornet’s nest within the context of tribal land rights. Since Nizam ruling till date, various land policy forms introduced by the successive governments have resulted in large-scale tribal land alienation and…
30 August 2017
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female farmers urged the Indian government on Wednesday to protect their land rights and keep them safe from abuse as women increasingly run farms abandoned by men for jobs in the city.
Women own just 13 percent of land in India although they do two-thirds of…
29 August 2017
BU has lost more than 100 acres while Kuvempu University, more than 40 acres to encroachments
After attempting to reclaim public land from land sharks, the state government has now set its eyes on the higher education institutes.
Alarmed by the large-scale land grabbing in and around…
India: Baghpat administration begins probe into ‘illegal’ land grabbing to expand Ram Rahim’s ashram ()
29 August 2017
Baghpat Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Arun Kumar said department officials have been assigned to assist the district administration in the inquiry. Action will be decided on the basis of the report, he added.
The Baghpat administration on Monday started a probe into alleged illegal grabbing of…
28 August 2017
Residents of low cost housing can design their communities better than an architect, says legendary planner and designer Balkrishna Doshi
LONDON, Aug 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Balkrishna Doshi began his illustrious career as India was born, and many of the architect's most influential…
23 August 2017
The subtext of all these personal laws, regardless of religion, is that women are not equal to men
The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down triple talaq should be the trigger to generate a candid debate on religion-based personal laws in the country.
Thirty-two years ago when Shahnaaz Shaikh…
22 August 2017
(CNN) More than 700 people are believed to have been killed in massive floods and landslides that have rocked Bangladesh, India and Nepal this month, aid workers say.
It is the worst flooding that some parts of South Asia have seen in decades, with about 24 million people affected, the…