Sukanta Majumdar, the state BJP president, said, "Amit Shah has set a target of 35 seats. We will achieve that". IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Shah at a public rally at Dharmatala in......
We present a FAQ on the Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill, which the government hopes to table in the Parliament after being held-up for three years because of in-house......
Union Rural development Minister Jairam Ramesh is burning the midnight oil to bring the Land Acquisition and Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill 2011 before the Cabinet on Monday so that it can be......
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......
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh faced a difficult situation on Thursday night when Railway Minister Mamta Banerjee prepared to walk out of the Cabinet meeting in a huff. Dr Singh at once persuaded......
It takes either a scam or a crisis, or both together, to get the government thinking seriously about governance frameworks and reforms. Shipping gold to the Bank of England in 1991 lead to the......
The government is considering enacting a law making it mandatory for industries to rehabilitate the displaced people before developing projects under the special economic zones. The government......
The government on Thursday introduced the much-awaited Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill and Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R&R) Bill, 2007 in the Lok Sabha a day before the winter session of......
We need a new land bill because the present one suffers from various shortcomings, says Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, below, left. The principle objective of the Bill is......
The National Advisory Council on Wednesday suggested that no private sector company should be allowed to buy land directly if more than 400 families are going to be displaced by its project.It also......