land acquisition

Kolkata, March 1 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee paid tribute to her predecessor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on his birth anniversary on Sunday.Bhattacharjee, a prominent figure in the Communist Party of India (Marxist), served as the chief minister of the state for two consecutive...

Wayanad, February 26 – In a significant outreach to landslide-affected families in Wayanad, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, and Wayanad MP, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, laid the foundation stone for 100 houses being constructed by the Congress for survivors of the...

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...

Bhopal, February 26 On Thursday, Congress MLAs created a commotion and staged a walkout from the Madhya Pradesh assembly after questioning the government over the land acquisition for Adani Group's coal mines in the Singrauli district.The opposition party alleged that adequate compensation was...

Rourkela (Odisha), February 25 A scuffle broke out between a group of people and police personnel during a protest against mining expansion work in the Sundargarh district of Odisha on Wednesday, an official said.Residents of areas near Lanjiberna have been opposing the expansion of dolomite...

New Delhi, February 25 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Wednesday that it has attached land worth ₹598 crore in Agra district, Uttar Pradesh, as part of an investigation into money laundering against realty company Ansal Properties and Infrastructure Ltd. (APIL).The case concerns...

Mumbai, February 25 Infrastructure projects proposed by public representatives will receive funding on a priority basis only if a village has an approved cremation or burial ground, Maharashtra Rural Development Minister Jaykumar Gore informed the legislative assembly on Wednesday.In a written...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, February 24 Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Ambadas Danve on Tuesday demanded an investigation into a 23-acre plot of land in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, which he claimed had been "gifted" by its owner to Shiv Sena MP Sandipan Bhumre's driver much before the latter...

New Delhi, February 24 The Supreme Court stated that individuals occupying railway land in Haldwani, Uttarakhand, do not have a legal right to be there, indicating that over 5,000 families will need to vacate the disputed land for the proposed expansion project.A bench of Chief Justice Surya...

Shillong, February 24 Shillong Airport is set for expansion to handle larger aircraft after land acquisition has been completed with private landowners, and approval from the defence department is expected by next month, Deputy Chief Minister S Dhar told the state Assembly on Tuesday...

Agartala, February 24 It is unlikely that the target of laying the pipeline in Tripura under the Indradhanush Gas Grid (IGG) will be achieved due to certain unavoidable circumstances, an official said on Tuesday.Under the project, a 253 km-long pipeline was supposed to be laid in Tripura by...

Mumbai, February 24 Congress legislative party leader Vijay Wadettiwar on Tuesday criticised the Maharashtra government for "exacerbating the distress of farmers" by deploying police for land acquisition for the Shaktipeeth Expressway, even as unseasonal rains and hailstorms have destroyed crops...

Thiruvananthapuram, February 24 – Veteran technocrat and former Konkan Railway Chairperson E. Sreedharan unveiled a revised design for a semi-high-speed rail corridor across Kerala on Tuesday, promising faster execution, lower costs, and minimal land acquisition compared to existing proposals...

Chief Minister Pu Lalduhoma informed the Assembly that compensation for privately owned land acquired by the government for the construction of the Bairabi–Sairang railway line has been fully disbursed.Addressing members during the Assembly session, the Chief Minister stated that the State...

Islamabad, February 23 – Islamabad's handling of dissent in the Gilgit-Baltistan region under Pakistani occupation has highlighted the structural contradictions in the region's governance model. Despite having administrative control since 1948, Pakistan has not granted Gilgit-Baltistan full...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, February 23 Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Jadhav accused the state government of depriving farmers of their livelihoods by acquiring their land for the Maharashtra-Goa Shaktipeeth Expressway project on Monday.Jadhav was leading a protest by farmers against the project in...

New Delhi, February 23 The Supreme Court, in a Monday hearing, orally observed that land acquisition cases from before 2018 cannot be reopened to grant compensation with interest to farmers whose land was acquired under the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) Act.This observation was...

New Delhi, February 23 Godrej Properties Ltd, a real estate firm, has partnered with a landowner to develop a 18-acre housing project in the Mumbai region, with an estimated revenue potential of over ₹7,500 crore, as part of its expansion plan.In a regulatory filing on Monday, the Mumbai-based...

Hyderabad, February 23 – Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K. T. Rama Rao accused Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of turning Telangana into an ATM for the AICC on Sunday.In a statement, Rama Rao said that Revanth Reddy has now openly admitted what he has repeatedly said: that...

Hyderabad, February 22 – Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy dismissed on Sunday the allegations made by BRS President and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and former minister T. Harish Rao that he was supporting Andhra Pradesh in diverting river waters, and made it clear that...