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An emergent genre of urban porn, urban music video or urban trailer now promotes the global city building epidemic. In the typical template for these videos, a zoom from outer space drops through clouds to reveal the location of a new world city. The stirring music of an epic adventure or western accompanies a swoop through shimmering cartoon skylines, resorts, suburbs and sun flares. A deep…

Gujarat has only 293 sloth bears left, mostly in Jessore and Balaram Sanctuaries.

The National Board for Wildlife recently cleared the proposal of laying double railway tracks in the Dedicated Freight Corridor passing through Balaram Sanctuary situated along the Aravali Hill series, in northern Gujarat, along the Gujarat-Rajasthan Border. The Sanctuary is known for its bear and leopard…

To, CEOs at the VGGIS 2015 Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat Re.: Spare rural livelihoods, follow the ethical pathWe, the undersigned, are representatives (but not political representatives) of the rural, agricultural, landless, farming, fishing and the marginalized communities reeling under the onslaught of relentless industrialization. The Government of Gujarat’s (GOG) blind race towards…

Maharashtra Government Statement is Misleading While Advocating Exemption from LARR Act, 2013

CAG Performance Audits of SEZs Imply Large Scale Land Grab for Profit by Corporations, Land Ordinance will Continue this Legacy

Eminent Citizens Write to President Requesting Him to Rescind Anti People Land Ordinance

Resistance to Continue, Protests During the Budget Session

New Delhi, January…

‘Industrial corridor to change Malwa’s fate’ TNN | Oct 11, 2014, 10.07AM IST INDORE : Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) passing through Madhya Pradesh is bound to change face of arid Malwa region.

Passing through Madhya Pradesh, the corridor would envelope Pithampur-Dhar-Mhow areas converting the region into industrial hub of central India. “With realization of industrial corridor, the…

Politics of Water in Peethampur

“The collector ordered to secure water of Sanjay pond only as drinking water with help of police.”

– A really disturbing statement by Dhar district collector Jayshree Kiyawat in a meeting with local industrialists and officers of the Peethampur Industrial Area, in Madhya Pradesh, a part of the DMIC.

AKNV (Audyogik Kendra Vikas Nigam) officers informed that during the Global Industrial Meet held…

CONFESSIONS OF THE WORLD BANK PRESIDENT

In an interview ahead of the World Bank bi-annual meeting, WB President Jim Yong Kim has predicted a not-so-rosy future for our world ahead.

Kim predicts that battles over food and water will break out in the next five to ten years.

Kim predicts that world’s poor will rise up and clash over access to clean water and affordable food.

Kim confesses that world leaders have done too little to address…

Do we really need an Environment Ministry?

When India’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change speaks, nature shrinks in horror.

  In an interview dated July 6th, 2014 the Ministry spoke again, this time to Press Trust of India.

“Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said the country needs infrastructure for progress and it can be ensured without compromising on environment as he is working with the slogan “development without destru…

TWISTING LAWS TO FAVOUR THE RICH – Land Rights, Labour Rights and India’s Environment under threat

  It took the Indian state 120 years to amend the Land Acquisition Act of 1894. The new bill, passed in 2013 under the UPA II at least managed to add two important clauses which seeks to protect the rights of those whose lands are taken away in the name of national interest.

i) 70% consent of local population is mandatory for public-private partnership projects. 80% consent is required for…

Undercurrents in Gujarat

This research tracks reportage of mainstream newspapers in India and constructs a rough estimate of the development model of Gujarat and its true implementation.

Petition | Shri. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister – Government of India : Save RTI Act from Amendments | Change.org.

5,000 Gujarat farmers protest against Maruti plant – The Times of India.

Jameen Adhikar Andolan – Gujarat (JAAG) A-302, Sharan Residency-1, Near Lohana Chhatralaya, Vasna, Ahmedabad Contact: Lalji Desai 9727589344 Sagar Rabari 9409307693

Date: 17th August 2013 UPDATE

Mandal-Bechraji SIR: State repression of a peaceful struggle

Implementation of much ambitious Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) is expected to face further delays as the Maharashtra water resources minister and Raigad district guardian minister Sunil Tatkare (NCP) has requested the chief minister

via Fate of…

New Delhi: Government has granted in-principle approval to five National Investment and Manufacturing Zones NIMZs outside the DM

via Government granted in-principle approval to 5 National Investment and Manufacturing Zones NIMZs, Odisha Current News,…