Coal India Lim-
ited (CIL), in the mid-1980s.
Across the decades, CCL had offered all sorts
of compensation to the locals—jobs, money, re-
settlement, alternative housing—in return for
their land and their departure. Many accepted
Fighters from a
Maoist splinter group,
the TPC, patrol a
village in Jharkhand,
looking for former
allies. Feuds and
extortion rackets
have fragmented
the Naxalites during
the insurgency.In the News: Endangered again

No one expects wolves to return to everywhere in the world they once roamed — they’ll hardly be able to find comfortable dens in the wilds of Central Park in New York City — but how much territory wolves can be expected to recover, and whether they’ll need the Endangered Species Act to protect them along the way, is up for debate as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s hearings on proposed rules for wolf management come to Denver on Nov. 19.

In some states, gray wolves were removed from the Endangered Species List by Congress — an unprecedented move — in 2011.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed rules that would remove the gray wolf from the list of endangered and threatened species