Farmers Protest Power Plant

Movement of over 290 trains around the country was hit amid a 'rail roko' protest called to press for the arrest of Union Minister Ajay Mishra's dismissal and arrest over Lakhimpur incident in Uttar Pradesh, in which his son has been arrested.

The ongoing rail blockade has severely impacted coal supply for the thermal power plants in Punjab, officials said on Saturday, as fear of severe power outages rises in the state.

Around 300 farmers have refused to part with their land in Cheyyur, 100 km from Chennai on the Tamil Nadu coast, for the Rs 24,000-crore power plant, asking the government to wait till the newly-elected Land Acquisition Act comes into force so that they could get market rates for their land.

Twenty farmers in Bujbuja village of Katni district in Madhya Pradesh sit every day on funeral pyres, with kerosene and match sticks at arm's reach. This is a relay protest against acquisition of land by the government for a thermal power plant in the area.

Violent scenes were witnessed in the Karchana village of Allahabad today over demands for higher compensation for land acquisition.Villagers torched police and government vehicles this morning and even attacked a police personnel after promises of compensation weren't met by the Jaypee Group which is setting up a thermal power plant in the area.The...

Agitating farmers in Bihar's Aurangabad district set afire the engine of a passenger train in protest against the setting up of a power plant in the area. The farmers raised slogans against what they called an unfair land acquisition policy by the Bihar government and the National Thermal Power Corporation.Earlier in the day, police clashed with th...

Movement of over 290 trains around the country was hit amid a 'rail roko' protest called to press for the arrest of Union Minister Ajay Mishra's dismissal and arrest over Lakhimpur incident in Uttar Pradesh, in which his son has been arrested.

The ongoing rail blockade has severely impacted coal supply for the thermal power plants in Punjab, officials said on Saturday, as fear of severe power outages rises in the state.

Around 300 farmers have refused to part with their land in Cheyyur, 100 km from Chennai on the Tamil Nadu coast, for the Rs 24,000-crore power plant, asking the government to wait till the newly-elected Land Acquisition Act comes into force so that they could get market rates for their land.

Twenty farmers in Bujbuja village of Katni district in Madhya Pradesh sit every day on funeral pyres, with kerosene and match sticks at arm's reach. This is a relay protest against acquisition of land by the government for a thermal power plant in the area.

Violent scenes were witnessed in the Karchana village of Allahabad today over demands for higher compensation for land acquisition.Villagers torched police and government vehicles this morning and even attacked a police personnel after promises of compensation weren't met by the Jaypee Group which is setting up a thermal power plant in the area.The...

Agitating farmers in Bihar's Aurangabad district set afire the engine of a passenger train in protest against the setting up of a power plant in the area. The farmers raised slogans against what they called an unfair land acquisition policy by the Bihar government and the National Thermal Power Corporation.Earlier in the day, police clashed with th...