new promises

* Each farmer whose land is being acquired would receive an annuity at the rate of Rs 20,000 per acre per year for 33 years.

Lucknow: Nearly two and a half months after scrapping the Tappal township project in Aligarh district in the face of violent agitation by local farmers against acquisition of land, the Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday revived the project.

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee appears to be playing truant on the introduction of amendments to the Land Acquisition Act in Parliament despite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

LUCKNOW: In one of the most striking fallouts of the farmers' agitation in the Yamuna Expressway case, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has suspended its plan to allow developers to use land along the expressways for commercial development.

Even as the Supreme Court has upheld the Uttar Pradesh Government

The UP government

Mandakini Gahlot

A red official-looking pass, folded neatly four times over, and tucked away in his threadbare wallet, is one of Rambir Singh

THE farmers

The agitation over Government move to acquire agricultural land for setting up townships near Yamuna Expressway is all set to gain momentum after farmers in western Uttar Pradesh put Mayawati government on notice.

Farmers of Aligarh have decided to go on an indefinite hunger strike from Monday to demand compensation as given to the cultivators in Noida in lieu of their lands while their counter

Amendments to the Land Acquisition Act, which took centrestage post-Nandigram agitation, are again under the spotlight due to recent protests by Uttar Pradesh farmers.

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