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By: Bill Weinberg
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: World War 4 Report
The fetish for hacking apostates to death on the Subcontinent has spread from the jihadis to the Hindu-fundamentalist competition... In another case of mounting caste violence in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, a newly-wed…
By: Nita Bhalla
Date: March 18th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
NEW DELHI, March 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For as long as she can remember, Panchi Sahariya and those in her tribal community in central India have been threatened, harassed, beaten and even arrested for living on…
By: PTI
Date: March 19th 2016
Source: The Economic Times
NEW YORK: Highlighting the challenges faced by women farmers in India, a group of Indian NGOs has called for putting in place strong policies to ensure land rights for them and stressed the need for customised financial products including…
Date: March 21st 2016
Source: Odisha Samachar
Mayurbhanj, 21/8 ( Odisha Samachar / Pranati Das )- With the pioneering efforts of Mayurbhanj district in enumerating homesteadless single women, 648 single women got land at Jashipur tehsil.With this, Mayurbhanj district has distributed a total of…
By: Kavitha Iyer
Date: March 26th 2016
Source: Indian Express
In Marathwada’s worst-hit districts of Beed, Osmanabad and Latur, households now have an uncompromising priority list of expenses as an economy hit by years of near-total crop failure goes into a tailspin.
About 65 kilometres from…
By: Sam Eaton
Date: March 29th 2016
Source: Kera News
The women of Ghunduribadi in Odisha have formed a vigilante group, guarding the forest they’ve used for generations from intruders and illegal loggers. Due to a landmark 2006 law, they can claim title to these ancestral lands.
Even the…
By: HT Correspondent
Date: April 5th 2016
Source: Hindustian Times
To facilitate the process of land reforms across India, the NITI Aayog has formulated a model land leasing law that allows transfer of leased land directly from the tenant, said Arvind Panagariya, vice-chairman of India’s policy…
By: TNN
Date: April 5th 2016
Source: ET Reality / Economic Times India
Government policies significantly cause supply problems increasing housing costs
AHMEDABAD: On the promise of housing for all by 2022 under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY), a study by a team from Indian Institute of…
By: TA Ameerudheen
Date: April 6th 2016
Source: Scroll in
Advasis, one of the most marginalised communities in the state, feel successive governments have failed to keep their promises on the redistribution of land.
It’s been seven years since 60-year-old Karuppi and 68 Adivasi families…
By: Our Representative
Date: April 7th 2016
Source: Counterview
In a new study, apparently carried out from a World Bank perspective, three senior economists have said that in the early 1950s, just about 14 per cent of the poor lived in India’s urban areas; however, they note, “by 2012 this had…
By: Swati Ramanathan
Date: April 8th 2016
Source: Live Mint
OPINION
The passage of the Rajasthan Urban Land (Certification of Titles) Bill marks the most dramatic event in the history of property rights reforms in the country
Allow me a bit of hyperbole—the occasion demands it. On 4 April, the…
By: Emma Rumney
Date: April 25th 2016
Source: Public Finance International
India’s government seems “reluctant” to solve its affordable urban housing crisis, with luxury real estate and development projects prioritised over the housing needs of poorer people, a United Nations expert has warned…