CHANDIGARH: Baliyana village in Rohtak district has become the first village in Haryana where cheques of annual royalty for acquired land were distributed on Thursday to farmers under the rehabilitation policy of the State Government.

Land released to private builders by successive governments in Punjab, including the controversial 32 acres exempted by the Congress which led to the expulsion of Amarinder Singh from the state Assembly, has driven farmers up the wall.

About 1,000 persons, whose land was acquired by the Government and handed over to the Amritsar Improvement Trust some time ago, are now demanding it back.

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

NEW DELHI: The farmers

Dhanbad: The public investment bureau (PIB) has shown the green light to a Rs 6,997-crore Jharia rehabilitation package and it is just a matter of time before the Union Cabinet puts its stamp of approval. But the million dollar question is who will convince some 400,000 residents to evacuate the danger zone, where an underground fire has been raging for more than 90 years?

Kanika Datta / New Delhi October 16, 2008, 0:17 IST

NEW DELHI

The farmers of eight villages from Kanjhawala area in northwest Delhi, who have been demanding higher compensation against land acquisition from the Delhi government, have demanded that the government should denotify all land acquisition and first come up with a detailed report on how much land is left for agricultural purposes.

Gargi Parsai

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee with Samajwadi Party leaders Amar Singh, Jayaprada and others coming out after submitting a memorandum to President Pratibha Patil on the Singur issue, in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Rahi Gaikwad

MUMBAI: Ahead of the State Cabinet meeting, usually slated for Wednesday, Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar and people affected by various projects in Maharashtra protested outside Tilak Bhawan, the Congress party headquarters in Mumbai.

Police rushed to the spot and brought Ms. Patkar and the agitators to Azad Maidan by 2.15 p.m.

Pune, October 14 Social activist Medha Patkar has demanded the appointment of an inquiry committee to probe into the land acquisition and diversion of water for developmental projects. Patkar who was in Pune on Monday is touring the state to take up issues of those, who have to bear the ill affect of industrialisation.

Villagers vote on Mumbai SEZ in a historic referendum on september 21, amid tight police security, 22 villages in Pen taluka of Maharashtra