agricultural land

Nainital, March 18 The Uttarakhand High Court has provided a significant relief to farmers in Udham Singh Nagar district by staying an administrative order related to summer paddy cultivation.Justice Pankaj Purohit heard a petition filed by farmers from the Gadarpur tehsil.The petition...

Ahmedabad, March 15 – Two tribal districts in Gujarat's eastern region received development projects worth approximately Rs 1,100 crore on Sunday, with Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel inaugurating and laying the foundation stones for projects in the Panchmahal and Dahod districts.The projects...

Kolkata, March 14 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday paid tributes to the 14 protesters who were killed in firing during the anti-land acquisition movement at Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district on this day in 2007.In her message...

Porbandar/Junagadh, March 13: The Gujarat government has granted administrative approval for a Phase-2 project worth Rs 1,423.4 crore to provide a permanent solution to flooding in the low-lying areas of the Saurashtra region, officials said on Friday.The project aims to protect agricultural...

Jaipur, March 12 The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested three individuals on Thursday, including a patwari in Jaipur and an e-Mitra operator in Ajmer, for allegedly accepting bribes, officials said.In Jaipur, Patwari (revenue department official) Vikram Bunkar and another...

Jaipur, March 12 The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested two revenue officials in Jaipur on Thursday for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000, officials said.Patwari Vikram Bunkar and another employee, Ashok Kumar, who were working at the Khedi gram panchayat in the Bassi tehsil...

Gandhinagar/Bhavnagar, March 12: The Gujarat government has granted administrative approval of ₹285 crore for the long-standing Methala dam project in the Bhavnagar district, a scheme expected to provide irrigation to about 6,550 hectares of land across 10 villages while also helping to control...

Bhopal, March 9 – Madhya Pradesh police in the districts of Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh, and Damoh seized over 7,890 kg of opium, estimated to have a market value of over Rs 3 crore.Related cases have been registered under the NDPS Act, and legal action is being taken.Police received information...

Mauganj, March 7 – Police in Mauganj district of Madhya Pradesh reported on Saturday evening that the decomposed body of an unidentified man was recovered from a drain surrounded by bushes along the National Highway.According to Mauganj Police Station Officer Sandeep Bhartiya, the body was...

Chennai, March 7 – The Tamil Nadu government's decision to designate the proposed Parandur Greenfield Airport in the Kancheepuram district as a 'Special Project' under the Tamil Nadu Land Consolidation (for Special Projects) Act, 2023, has reignited concerns among environmental groups and...

Ahmedabad, March 6 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint against city-based Anil Nutrients Ltd, its director Amol Shripal Sheth, and six others in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged fraud of Rs 47.88 crore involving Bank of India, officials...

Ghaziabad (UP), March 1 Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said on Sunday that setting up a waste management plant on fertile agricultural land near residential areas violates both environmental standards and basic human compassion.The farmer leader was addressing a Mahapanchayat at...

Indore, February 26 Hundreds of farmers staged a protest in Indore, Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, demanding the cancellation of the land acquisition process for a road project, officials said.The administration is planning to acquire approximately 2,400 acres of agricultural land belonging to...

Chandigarh, February 18 – AAP sarpanch Harbarinder Singh, 40, was killed by unidentified assailants during a wedding function in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district on Wednesday, marking the second killing of a sarpanch from the region in the past two months, police said.The incident took place...

Palghar, February 18 People affected by the Vadhvan Port project in some villages across Palghar taluka in Maharashtra will receive an average compensation of more than Rs 2 crore per hectare for acquired agricultural land, according to the district administration.The administration announced...

Shahjahanpur (UP), February 18 The administration has cleared encroachments that were blocking around 300 acres of forest land in Shahjahanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, during a drive that also involved ploughing standing crops, police said on Wednesday.SP Rajesh Dwivedi told

Gandhinagar, February 17 – The Gujarat Legislative Assembly passed a bill on Tuesday amending Sections 75 and 75(A) of the Saurashtra Gharkhed, Tenancy Settlement and Agricultural Lands Ordinance, 1949. The aim is to provide legal clarity in land transactions and curb illegal transfers of...

Kanpur (UP), February 16 A 51-year-old retired army personnel, who was a Kargil war veteran, allegedly shot his wife and 16-year-old son dead at their home in Sen Pashchim Para here, before dying by suicide on a nearby railway track, police said on Monday.The incident came to light on Monday...

Bhubaneswar, February 14 The Odisha Cabinet on Saturday approved three tenders worth over Rs 358 crore for water distribution under the Integrated Anandpur Barrage Project (IABP), which aims to provide irrigation to around 15,765 hectares of agricultural land in the Balasore and Keonjhar...

Jaipur, February 13 The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau conducted searches at five locations in the Bikaner and Phalodi districts on Friday as part of an investigation into alleged disproportionate assets against a junior assistant, officials said.During the searches, officials recovered...