A step ahead

Landmark legislation

No, minister

Orissa chief minister injured in fracas over mining contract

Panel submits draft of West Bengal land use policy

Recommends ban on government land acquisition for industrial use

Bombay high court gives six weeks' time to Lavasa

Asks to submit documents to environment ministry by March 10

Writing on the wall: Groundwater exploitation is triggering subsidence in Indo-Gangetic plain

Groundwater levels are declining rapidly, apart from threat of building collapse

Desertification in India: Mining monstrous for Goa, but urbanisation digs a bigger hole

Lack of planning has potential of becoming the biggest degrader of land in Goa

Uttaranchal farmers upset at upcoming tea estates

SEZs and socialism

Centre wakes up to Naxal menace

Curfew on tribals

For protesting road construction for steel industry hub

Another India is (not) ours

Farming made unprofitable

Property is a right: SC

Analysis of judgement shows State retains supremacy

Remembering Kalinganagar - Will cheap and dirty industrialization work?

Displaced by settlers: Tribal communities in Kerala’s Attappady block are being alienated from their land

Laws in place to protect their rights, but no means to enforce it

Long road to justice

The new land acquisition bill promises much but has little to ensure delivery

Kerala court allows law violation

Permits use of paddy field unfit for cultivation for other purposes

NREGS expansion

1,300 villages, common agenda

Gram sabhas resolve to get rights over community-owned land and resources registered

Simply Put: Land animal without land

Investing in degraded forest land for the health of our economic system

Forest health is also intricately connected with human health outcome

Oases of fertility

The Sarvodaya Ashram in Uttar Pradesh has helped regenerate of hectares of saline land.

Regeneration on reels

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Canal of woes

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