Tribal people protesting against the state government’s proposed Deocha-Pachami coal mine in Birbhum on Wednesday guarded several roads leading to the agitation site in a bid to keep their movem...

A team of BJP functionaries headed by Opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari and a separate group led by state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury will meet tribal people protesting against the prop...

A government programme to distribute cheques and job letters among people set to lose their land to the proposed Deocha-Pachami coal mine project in Birbhum was called off on Monday following protest ...

Hundreds of tribal people against the proposed DeochaPachami coal mine project on Sunday resumed  their indefinite protest that had been put on hold for the past two days after a nineme¬mber ...

A nine-member team on behalf of tribal people protesting against the proposed Deocha-Pachami coal mine project in Birbhum met chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday at Nabanna for over an hour an...

Meera Sanghamitra, one of the national conveners of National Alliance of People’s Movement (NAPM), and some other members of the organisation on Saturday visited areas under the proposed Deocha ...

A new committee comprising a set of tribal leaders, representing both political and apolitical outfits, has been formed to negotiate with people opposed to the proposed coal-mine project in Birbhum&rs...

Sleep easy Sir — Rip Van Winkle fell asleep for 20 years and woke up to a changed world. However, the fast life of the 21st century, where people are competing for limited resources, rarely off...

Some green activists of Bengal have sent a letter to chief minister Mamata Banerjee raising specific questions about the environmental impact of the proposed project to mine coal and basalt from Deoch...

The additional chief judicial magistrate of Birbhum district court in Suri on Tuesday granted bail to nine persons, including seven Calcutta-based activists, who had been arrested when events after a ...