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......
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 land acquisition bill is being brought in Lok Sabha on Friday with the government seeking to give another push to the controversial measure despite not having the numbers in the Rajya Sabha.......
The government will on Tuesday introduce the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015 in the Parliament to replace the......
The Land Acquisition Bill, passed by Parliament during the Monsoon Session to replace a 119-year-old legislation, became a law with President Pranab Mukherjee giving assent to it on. "The Right to......
The state-run City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO), nodal agency for the Navi Mumbai international airport, will have to start afresh the land acquisition process for 271 hectares......
The path-breaking Land Acquisition Bill was on Thursday one step short of becoming a law with Parliament giving its approval to it. Lok Sabha passed the amended version of the legislation, which......
The National Democratic Alliance government is planning to exempt public-private partnership projects from the need to obtain consent of affected families and the mandatory social-impact......
The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2012. The Bill will replace the existing Land Acquisition Act, 1894. State still holds......
The Union government acquired land for widening of an under-construction highway, overruling farmers objections in Rohtak, Haryana. On April 19, farmers working in their fields hurriedly returned......