A Congress worker died during the party's protest near the Uttar Pradesh assembly on Wednesday, with its UP unit chief Ajay Rai claiming that he died due to "police brutality". IMAGE: Congress......
Thousands of tribals residing in the core zones of India's tiger reserves have launched protests against the government's directive to accelerate their relocation from these areas. A tiger seen......
The Bombay high court has held that income tax cannot be deducted from an amount given by way of compensation for property the National Hi-Speed Rail Corporation Ltd acquired for the......
'A rigid or overly broad interpretation could lead to a chilling effect on investments and growth in sectors traditionally driven by private initiative.' 'Entrepreneurs may fear that their assets......
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh believes that renaming the Land Acquisition Bill was felt necessary to eliminate the danger of the price spiralling once the first land is acquired in an......
'We are not asking for incentives, but at least taxation can be aligned such that the rupee tax on consumers remains the same.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches E20 fuel and flags off......
'What's sad today is that there are so many people who cannot find work, not because the country is devoid of that opportunity, but because we are not doing enough in the country.' Interview with......
People affected by the Navi Mumbai international airport insist they be allotted developed land as compensation, not cash as the land acquisition Bill, recently cleared by Parliament, suggests.......
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, whose agitation over land acquisition for industry catapulted her to power, is reluctant to recompense those losing land at rates set by a central......
The Lok Sabha on Thursday adopted with an overwhelming majority a more consultative process of acquiring land - but also more rigorous and time-consuming — to replace an antediluvian law......
'All of us tend to believe that they are so well paid, why should we bother about their payments.''But who all are well paid? Only a handful, maybe 3-4 of them, who go in for endorsements and......
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field IMAGE: Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos. Photograph: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images The union of Spanish footballers......