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 Kerala high court on Tuesday dismissed two pleas challenging the sanction given by the Left Democratic Front government for the acquisition of 955.13 hectares of land in various districts of......
Given the Opposition majority in the Rajya Sabha, the LARR Bill passed by the Upper House may be a deeply diluted version of the government’s own 2015 Bill. Aditi Phadnis reports. Reconciled......
'In the UPA you had one pradhan mantri and many mantris. In the NDA you have one pradhan mantri and many santris!' 'Give time to the 2013 Act to work. I not only think that the 2013 law is......
Joyita Ghose on the land acquisition laws in the country and the changes that the NDA government’s controversial bill in Parliament makes to the land acquisition act, 2013 brought in by the......
Maybe Modi could ask a patriarch of the stature of the late G D Birla to flesh out the details of a new company to manage government land privatisation. Of all the parts of the divestment......
The problem can be met, according to Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, research director of India Development Foundation, by the government tapping into its own land holdings. Within three years of the......
The much-awaited Land Acquisition Bill has been finalised and sent to the Union Cabinet, which is likely take up the matter for consideration at its next meeting, a senior official said on......
Like the rest of corporate India, Larsen & Toubro executive chairman A M Naik will not be amused by the modified land acquisition bill - Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (LARR)......