Land Struggles
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Fact-finding report demands action against officials who fired on protesting Adivasis in Kaimur
A press release by three NGOs alleged that the police fired on peacefully protesting Adivasis in Kaimur district of Bihar on September 11, injuring seven.
Scroll Staff
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Adani’s solar energy project in Jaisalmer temporarily stayed by Rajasthan High Court
Local farmers have challenged the allocation of nearly 990 hectares of agricultural land to billionaire Gautam Adani’s business.
Scroll Staff
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Homeless in Delhi: This election, former nomads are asking for a tiny piece of land
The Gadia Lohars have faced repeated evictions in India’s national capital.
Nihar Gokhale
Trending
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Virat Kohli uses an 'MRF bat'. Rohit Sharma uses a 'CEAT bat'. But whose bat do they really use?
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Green card reform, no more Muslim ban: What Biden’s immigration proposals promise
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Online abuse of Kamala Harris shows that automated moderation doesn’t stop trolls
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‘Delhi is our capital too’: A blow-by-blow account of the farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day
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Fashionable dog laments outfits it could not wear in 2020
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‘Our livelihood depends on this land’: A solar park in Gujarat is hurting a pastoral community
The Charanka solar park may help India reach its renewable energy goals, but it has a hidden cost.
Karthikeyan Hemalatha, IndiaSpend.com
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India had third-highest number of deaths of people defending their land in 2018: Report
Twenty-three such deaths took place in India last year – 13 of them in Thoothukudi during the anti-Sterlite protests.
Scroll Staff
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‘We don’t want to die landless’: Kerala’s Adivasis are again agitating for land promised in 2001
Nearly 200 landless Adivasis have been protesting for over a week after they were forcibly evicted from the Thovarimala forest in Wayanad.
TA Ameerudheen
Video
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Watch: Teenager shows what British sitcoms would be like if set during the pandemic
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Watch: Mother surprises daughter with cancer by shaving her own head too
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Watch: Time-lapse of the snowiest day in over five decades seen in Omaha, US
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Watch: Doctors suture head injury of farmer under mobile phone lights after tractor rally
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Watch: Meet Simba, the first lion cub born from artificial insemination in a Singapore wildlife park
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Despite nature’s protests, encroachment and illegal construction are rampant in Kerala’s Munnar
The hilly region was severely affected by the August 2018 and 1924 floods and illegal constructions could become an election issue this year.
KA Shaji
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In Jammu and Kashmir, Gujjars and Bakerwals grow anxious after the repeal of Roshni Act
The poor tribal communities anyway have few land rights. Now, they fear eviction from lands they have lived and grazed their livestock on for generations.
Safwat Zargar
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Despite court order, Tamil Nadu government is flouting land acquisition law for highway project
It has started work on a resettlement and rehabilitation plan without a social impact assessment in consultation with local people.
S Senthalir
The Reel
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Watch: AR Rahman launches ‘maajja’ platform to promote independent music
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Warner Bros releases sneak peek of ‘Suicide Squad’ sequel, new films with Hugh Jackman, Will Smith
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‘Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel’: Series revisits LA hotel linked to several crimes
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‘Silk Road’ trailer: Crime thriller examines the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht and his darknet site
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‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ trailer: Disney animated film out in cinemas on March 5
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For Tamil Nadu highway project, government is using police to acquire farmland
The frequent arrests and detentions of farmers opposing the project has created fear in five districts.
S Senthalir
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In battles over land rights, activists are being branded as criminals, says UN report
Last year, more than 200 activists were killed, the highest since 2002.
Karla Mendes, Thomson Reuters Foundation News
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Marginalised for years, Taiwan’s indigenous people are demanding their rights to ancestral land
Taiwan’s indigenous people make up about 2% of its 23.5 million people and are poorer, less educated and more jobless than their Chinese counterparts.
Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
The Field
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Watch: Bharat Arun on the difference in Ajinkya Rahane and Virat Kohli’s captaincy style for bowlers
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ISL: Poor finishing, woodwork deny dominant Kerala Blasters a win against Jamshedpur
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Kerala High Court issues notice to Virat Kohli in a plea seeking ban on online gambling
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Watch: Don’t put too much pressure on Shubman Gill, allow him to develop, says Gautam Gambhir
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AFC Cup: ATK Mohun Bagan handed tricky group stage opponents in Maldives’ Maziya, Bangladesh’s Kings