Tag: Narmada

From New Delhi, Saturday, April 8 – Sunday, April 9, 2006 PLEASE NOTE that the link for the back issues of the CACIM Delhi Demos Bulletins is as follows, and NOT as given in Bulletin 10 : http://www.cacim.net/twiki/tiki-view_articles.php?type=article&topic=1 In a Press Release issued today, April 8, the NBA argues that “the three member team of…

UPDATE FROM JAI IN DELHI SEE HERE FOR EARLIER UPDATES. Today has been a quiet day at the Delhi demo site – at ‘Jantar Mantar’. Summer is coming to Delhi, it is in the air, but today, out there at the site, it was still, and hot, and felt like the lull before a storm……

CALCUTTA TELEGRAPH – OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Indore, April 6: The Madhya Pradesh government today braced for a possible clash with Delhi on the eve of a central team’s visit to villages around the Sardar Sarovar Dam. The state’s BJP government is alarmed that the team, led by water resource development minister Saifuddin Soz, will be…

ibnlive.com Posted Thursday , April 06, 2006 at 11:13 Updated Thursday , April 06, 2006 at 12:58 New Delhi: Medha Patkar or Medha tai (aunt) – as she is popularly known – has been fighting for the right to life and livelihood of those sections of people who get nudged to the sidewalks of life…

CNN-IBN Posted Thursday , April 06, 2006 at 07:35 Updated Thursday , April 06, 2006 at 13:05 New Delhi: The Delhi Police have filed an First Information Report (FIR) against Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar after forcibly taking her to hospital late on Wednesday night. Patkar, who had been on a hunger strike against…

Thursday, 06 April , 2006, 10:52 New Delhi: Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar, who was forcibly removed from the spot of her indefinite hunger strike, was under observation at the AIIMS while 27 of her supporters were arrested by the police in an overnight swoop. However, police maintained that Patkar, agitating for the…

Tribune News Service & PTI New Delhi, April 5 The Delhi Police tonight shifted Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar, who is on an indefinite hunger strike on a street here, to a hospital after her condition turned critical. “We have taken Ms Patkar to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital”, Additional DCP (New Delhi) Manish Agarwal…

Press Trust of India New Delhi, April 5, 2006 Delhi police on Wednesday shifted Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar, who is on an indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, to a hospital after her condition turned critical. “We have taken Medha Patkar to Ram Manohar Lohia hopsital”, Additional DCP (New Delhi)…

New Delhi, Apr 04: Turning down Prime Minister`s request to her to end her indefinite hunger strike, Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar today said her agitation would continue. Time Line: Narmada Bachao Andolan Medha said that her fast will continue till the Government makes public its report on the rehabilitation of the families affected…

UNI – Wednesday, April 05, 2006 17:06 IST NEW DELHI: The condition of Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar worsened further on Wednesday as she had a bout of vomitting even as some writers joined the demonstration at Jantar Mantar to express their solidarity with her. Patkar is on an indefinite fast in the…

New Delhi, Apr 2 (UNI) Criticising the “callous” attitude of the UPA Government to pleas of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) to stop construction work on the Sardar Sarovar Dam, NBA convenor Medha Patkar today said the time had come to launch a ”decisive struggle to achieve our objectives”. Expressing her shock over the Government’s…

For Narmada situation see: http://www.narmada.org/ And http://www.narmada.org/nba-press-releases/march-2006/ninthday.html Hindustan Times Correspondent Bhopal, March 26, 2006 STATE BHARATIYA Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Anil Madhav Dave is embarking upon aerial expedition of Narmada on Monday with the objective to study the river course, match his findings vis-à-vis the Survey of India data, the deforestation resulting in a…

LETTER FROM ARUNDHATI ROY TO DIGVIJAY SINGH, CHIEF MINISTER OF MADHYA PRADESH Fax Number: 0755 – 540501 To The Chief Minister Government of Madhya Pradesh Bhopal 462004 June 15th 2002 Dear Mr Digvijay Singh Thank you for your letter. I am a little puzzled and embarrassed that you chose to write to me and not…