The governor of Andhra Pradesh ESL Narasimhan has refused to promulgate an ordinance by the Nara Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu Desam government. Naidu wants to enact the AP Assigned Lands......
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 new ordinance on land acquisition will allow land grabbers to deprive millions, destroy agriculture, horticulture, rivers, forests, tree cover and mangroves to extract minerals as well as......
'A picture has been created that the government is anti-farmer, which is absolutely wrong,' argues BJP MP Bhupender Yadav. The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition,......
Most conflicts arise from government takeover of land, often on behalf of private investors: Report More than 250 conflicts have arisen over land acquisition cases between 2013 and 2014 in 165 of......
Farmers too will get better deals The real estate industry has welcomed the Cabinet's decision to amend the Land Acquisition Act, saying it will boost construction of affordable housing. The......
India passed an urgent executive order on Monday to ease land-acquisition rules in sectors like power, housing and defence to kick-start hundreds of billions of dollars in stalled projects, though......
Land acquistion proceedings will become illegal if government fails to observe the mandatory requirement of issuing public notices to the affected parties, the Supreme Court has held, quashing......
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......