MoEF/MoTA Committee Report of visit to Jagatsinghpur Orissa
Published on August 5, 2010 in Forest Rights, anti-posco and displacement.
23-24 July 2010
4 August 2010
Madan Kalundia of Kalinga Nagar died on 3 Aug in jail
Madan Kalundia, a 34-year-old Adivasi man from Baligotha village of Kalinga Nagar was arrested on 15...
3 August 2010
Sub: Forest Rights Act violation at POSCO site, Orissa
Dear Shri Jairam Ramesh,
As you are aware, three members of the...
55% of India`s population poor: Report
Rukmini Shrinivasan, TNN, Jul 15, 2010
NEW DELHI: India`s abysmal track record at ensuring basic level...
Latest Update - Police started to beat up people who were picketing peacefully in their own lands. They had even got a legal injunction not allowing passage to Nagarjuna...
ARMENIANS FIGHT URANIUM MINE PLANS
Residents of southern region say life will be untenable if mining goes ahead.
By Gayane Mkrtchyan
...
Govt considers 26% equity for tribals in mines
The Times of India
NEW DELHI: In a bid to deplete the reservoir of antagonism in the central Indian ...
JSPL (Jindal Steel & Power Ltd)
Company Snapshot:
One of the key companies in the family promoted Jindal Group, JSPL has grown from a moderately perfo...
Philippine bishops ask Aquino to scrap mining law
Reuters
16 July 2010
MANILA - The Catholic Church in the Philippines, a po...
Bishops want Truth Commission vs environmental crimes
GMANews.TV
12 July 2010
Now that he has formed a Truth Commission for graft an...
Two killed in police firing in Srikakulam district
The Hindu 14.07.2010 : K. Srinivasa Rao
Sompeta on the boil : protestors launch ...
MoEF/MoTA Committee Report of visit to Jagatsinghpur Orissa
Published on August 5, 2010 in Forest Rights, anti-posco and displacement.
23-24 July 2010
4 August 2010
Comments and Recommendations on the IFC’s proposed
Policy on Social and Environmental Sustainability and
Performance Standards
By Leonardo A. Crippa* and Rebecca Aleem**
July, 2010
Mineral reserves of the world may not last long.
By Dr. Nitish Priyadarshi
The use of minerals has been instrumental in raising the standard of living of mankind. The names of the minerals and their products have been used to christen various eras of civilization, such as the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age and the Nuclear Age. The sophistic...
The Forever War:
Inside India’s Maoist Conflict
Megha Bahree
CHHATTISGARH STATE, India—It was 4 p.m. one March afternoon in 2008. The victims were living in a relief camp in a village called Matwada. Two dozen members of a government-backed civilian militia, accompanied by at least one police officer, burst into their homes. ...
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
http://ophi.qeh.ox.ac.uk
www.ophi.org.uk
Oxford Dept of International Development,
Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford
Country Briefing: India
Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) At a Glance
July 2010
This Country Briefing presents the resul...
Left - (Subash Gayali (Zonal Secretary)
Surender Tirkey (General Secretary)
Central Committe Member of JMACC
1. Suresh Nagesia ( Pat Agragami Sangh- Latehar)
2. Arjun Samad ( JOSH-Jamshedpur- Uranium Mines)
3. Badal Kisku ( Gramin Vikash Sangharsh Samiti- Dhanbad)
4. Parmeshwar Mahto ( Karnpura Bachao Sangharsh Samiti- Hazaribagh - Badkagaon)
5. Dale oraon (Visthapan Pratirodh Samiti - Balumath)
6. Jonathan Besra (Jangal Bhumi Raksha Samiti-Dumka)
7. Xavier Dias ( Ranchi)
8. Manju Kisku ( Jharkhand Adivasi Dalit Manch- Hazaribagh)
9. (Chatra)
Goa Federation of Mines Affected People (GOAMAP) will observe December 19 2009 as a day of condemnation of Colonial Mining plunder of Goa. It will spread message to the public that although Goa formally got liberation from colonial rule way back in 1961 the fundamental economic structure of mining trade remains colonial in nature even after 48 years.