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Wrapped In Leaves, Madhya Pradesh Farmers Stage Protest For Land Rights
Farmers affected by the Pangri medium irrigation project in the Burhanpur district wrapped their bodies in banana leaves to demand double compensation for their acquired land
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India Welcomes Taliban's Move To Return Private Land To Hindus, Sikhs
India on Friday described as "positive development" the move by the Taliban regime to restore private land rights to Afghan Hindus and Sikh minorities.
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No Tribal Should Be Evicted Without Settlement Of Land Claim: Rights Body
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson justice (retd) Arun Kumar Mishra on Thursday said no tribal should be evicted without the settlement of his or her claim related to land rights.
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With 1 Lakh Land Allotments, PM Reaches Out To Assam's Indigenous People
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today sent out a strong note of reassurance to the 70-odd indigenous tribes of Assam, granting recognition for the land they have lived on for generations but without any official documentation. The allocation of ownership to over a lakh such natives comes merely months ahead of the state Assembly polls in March-April. ...
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Proposed MSME Ordinance Won't Impact Indigenous Land Rights, Says Assam
Assam government on Thursday clarified that it is going to add provision in the draft MSME Ordinance that all the provisions of the Assam Agricultural Land (Regulation of Reclassification and Transfer for Non-Agricultural Purpose) Act, 2015 will have to be followed for setting up of any MSME.
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For First Time, Small Tea Growers In Assam To Get Land Rights
Guwahati: Thousands of small tea growers in Assam will be given land rights for the first time in an attempt to boost production and generate employment, the state government said. “We are committed to providing land rights to an estimated 78,286 small tea growers in the first phase and eventually we hope to grant land rights to all the growers i...
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For Right To Property, Muslim Women In India Fight Tradition And Family
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh: Shabana was 18 years old when she was married to a man 15 years her senior in Uttar Pradesh. It wasn’t long before he began beating her. Worried for her safety and that of her two young kids, Shabana begged her eldest brother to let her return to her parental home, where he now lived. He refused, saying her place was with ...
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Women Farmers Battle Tradition, Self-doubt To Own Land In Uttar Pradesh
By Rina Chandran Taardeh, Uttar Pradesh: Anjali has worked on the land nearly all her life, first with her tenant-farmer parents, and then alongside her husband in Uttar Pradesh. But she has never owned land – a right she has been denied by inconsistent inheritance laws and her community’s rigid custom that led her to believe only a man should ...
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Only A New Law Will Guarantee Women Have Land Rights: MS Swaminathan
By Rina Chandran Chennai: India must pass a law granting women equal rights to land as men if the country is to ensure more food is grown for its more than 1 billion people and greater respect for the environment, a leading scientist said. MS Swaminathan is known as the father of India’s ‘Green Revolution’ for developing high-yielding varie...
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In India, 1 In 5 Rural Landowners Fear Losing Their Property: Survey
By Paola Totaro About a quarter of homeowners in India, and nearly one in five rural landowners, fear losing their property, in most cases because they do not have documents to prove ownership, according to a new poll. The survey, launched by US polling firm Gallup in London on Tuesday, set out to test how secure people feel about their homes and l...
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This Tradition Is Forcing Rajasthan Women To Let Go Of Family Property
Chaksu, Rajasthan: Days before she was married 18 years ago, K Bina Devi and her sister were called to the living room of the family home where they lived with their parents and four brothers. There, in a short ceremony witnessed by village elders, she and her sister signed a piece of paper giving up their share of the family property to their brot...
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'This Forest Is A Friend': Tribal Women Fight For Land Rights In Odisha
Ranapur: For the tribal women of Gunduribadi village in Odisha, an early morning patrol is essential to conserve their forest, but what they are protecting goes far beyond food security or even their livelihoods. “Four decades ago, logging and theft of commercial timber and bamboo had denuded hills, depleted groundwaters and dried up streams arou...
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'Zero Landless' in Kerala? Not Anytime Soon.
Seventy-year-old Sharadhaamma works as a domestic help and lives with her employees. Her husband juggles his stay between relatives. They don't have any land or a home to call their own.
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Opposition walkout in assembly over tribal land rights issue
CPI-M led LDF opposition members in Kerala Assembly on Wednesday staged a walkout protesting alleged government indifference towards the 52-day long agitation by tribals in Wayanad for land.
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Wrapped In Leaves, Madhya Pradesh Farmers Stage Protest For Land Rights
Farmers affected by the Pangri medium irrigation project in the Burhanpur district wrapped their bodies in banana leaves to demand double compensation for their acquired land
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India Welcomes Taliban's Move To Return Private Land To Hindus, Sikhs
India on Friday described as "positive development" the move by the Taliban regime to restore private land rights to Afghan Hindus and Sikh minorities.
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No Tribal Should Be Evicted Without Settlement Of Land Claim: Rights Body
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson justice (retd) Arun Kumar Mishra on Thursday said no tribal should be evicted without the settlement of his or her claim related to land rights.
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With 1 Lakh Land Allotments, PM Reaches Out To Assam's Indigenous People
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today sent out a strong note of reassurance to the 70-odd indigenous tribes of Assam, granting recognition for the land they have lived on for generations but without any official documentation. The allocation of ownership to over a lakh such natives comes merely months ahead of the state Assembly polls in March-April. ...
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Proposed MSME Ordinance Won't Impact Indigenous Land Rights, Says Assam
Assam government on Thursday clarified that it is going to add provision in the draft MSME Ordinance that all the provisions of the Assam Agricultural Land (Regulation of Reclassification and Transfer for Non-Agricultural Purpose) Act, 2015 will have to be followed for setting up of any MSME.
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For First Time, Small Tea Growers In Assam To Get Land Rights
Guwahati: Thousands of small tea growers in Assam will be given land rights for the first time in an attempt to boost production and generate employment, the state government said. “We are committed to providing land rights to an estimated 78,286 small tea growers in the first phase and eventually we hope to grant land rights to all the growers i...
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For Right To Property, Muslim Women In India Fight Tradition And Family
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh: Shabana was 18 years old when she was married to a man 15 years her senior in Uttar Pradesh. It wasn’t long before he began beating her. Worried for her safety and that of her two young kids, Shabana begged her eldest brother to let her return to her parental home, where he now lived. He refused, saying her place was with ...
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Women Farmers Battle Tradition, Self-doubt To Own Land In Uttar Pradesh
By Rina Chandran Taardeh, Uttar Pradesh: Anjali has worked on the land nearly all her life, first with her tenant-farmer parents, and then alongside her husband in Uttar Pradesh. But she has never owned land – a right she has been denied by inconsistent inheritance laws and her community’s rigid custom that led her to believe only a man should ...
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Only A New Law Will Guarantee Women Have Land Rights: MS Swaminathan
By Rina Chandran Chennai: India must pass a law granting women equal rights to land as men if the country is to ensure more food is grown for its more than 1 billion people and greater respect for the environment, a leading scientist said. MS Swaminathan is known as the father of India’s ‘Green Revolution’ for developing high-yielding varie...
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In India, 1 In 5 Rural Landowners Fear Losing Their Property: Survey
By Paola Totaro About a quarter of homeowners in India, and nearly one in five rural landowners, fear losing their property, in most cases because they do not have documents to prove ownership, according to a new poll. The survey, launched by US polling firm Gallup in London on Tuesday, set out to test how secure people feel about their homes and l...
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This Tradition Is Forcing Rajasthan Women To Let Go Of Family Property
Chaksu, Rajasthan: Days before she was married 18 years ago, K Bina Devi and her sister were called to the living room of the family home where they lived with their parents and four brothers. There, in a short ceremony witnessed by village elders, she and her sister signed a piece of paper giving up their share of the family property to their brot...
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'This Forest Is A Friend': Tribal Women Fight For Land Rights In Odisha
Ranapur: For the tribal women of Gunduribadi village in Odisha, an early morning patrol is essential to conserve their forest, but what they are protecting goes far beyond food security or even their livelihoods. “Four decades ago, logging and theft of commercial timber and bamboo had denuded hills, depleted groundwaters and dried up streams arou...
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'Zero Landless' in Kerala? Not Anytime Soon.
Seventy-year-old Sharadhaamma works as a domestic help and lives with her employees. Her husband juggles his stay between relatives. They don't have any land or a home to call their own.
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Opposition walkout in assembly over tribal land rights issue
CPI-M led LDF opposition members in Kerala Assembly on Wednesday staged a walkout protesting alleged government indifference towards the 52-day long agitation by tribals in Wayanad for land.
