By: Rina Chandran Date: 9 January 2017 Source: Reuters A commercial painter by trade, K. Raja dreamed of setting up his own business in Surya Nagar slum, in the southern Indian city of Chennai, where he had lived all his life. But his dream faded last February, when he and about 1,000 other…

By: Srinivasa Rao Apparasu  Date: 7 January 2017 Source: Hindustantimes Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is having sleepless nights, and the reason is a young woman advocate bent on ensuring justice for farmers “wronged” by the state government. Meet Rachna Reddy Bollu – a 30-…

By: Kavita Upadhyay Date: 17 January 2017 Source: The Hindu   People say the Congress has gone back on its promise to assign land rights. Deep inside the forests outside the core zone of the Corbett Tiger Reserve, where a struggle for land rights has been brewing for years, the Congress…