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Rights of adivasis over forest lands diminishes; their consent no longer mandatory for all development projects taken up on forest land - Roundup of the week’s news (February 11-17, 2013)

Adivasis' rights over forest lands diminishes. Government dilutes its stand on requiring consent from tribals before handing over their forest lands for projects.

The Sangai Express

Nitin Sethi

Posted on 18 Feb, 2013 11:18 PM

Adivasis' rights over forest lands diminishes

Water - Asia's new battleground by Brahma Chellaney: A new book from the Georgetown University Press

Water stress is set to become Asia's defining crisis of the twenty-first century, creating obstacles to continued rapid economic growth, stoking interstate tensions over shared resources, exacerbating long-time territorial disputes, and imposing further hardships on the poor.

Posted on 12 Jul, 2011 01:48 PM

Water - Asia's new battleground by Brahma Chellaney - A new book from the Georgetown University Press The battles of yesterday were fought over land. Those of today are over energy. But the battles of tomorrow may be over water. Nowhere is that danger greater than in water-distressed Asia.

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