The Allahabad High Court on Friday referred to a larger Bench petitions filed by farmers from Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's ancestral village challenging acquisition of their land by the State Government.

Noida: Faced with the prospect of agitating farmers derailing housing projects across Noida, Noida Extension and Greater Noida in Gautam Budh Nagar district, the UP government on Tuesday decided to

NOIDA: One of the richest habitats of the country's National Bird, the peacock, has met a sad end. Projects of over 25 small and big private builders have collectively wreaked havoc on the environmental heritage in Noida Extension.

With the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls less than a year away, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday threw a fresh challenge at Chief Minister Mayawati by visiting the epicentre of the recent farmers

ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad high court on Monday scrapped the acquisition of 170 hectares of land in Gulistanpur village of Gautam Budh Nagar in Greater Noida.

The Allahabad high court on Monday set aside the Uttar Pradesh government

After burning its fingers over distribution of compensation of farmers' land, acquired for development projects, the state government has decided to out source the disbursal to the state-run Life Insurance Company (LIC).

The state government received a lone bid from LIC on Thursday, showing its willingness to take the onerous job of distributing compensation to the farmers, thus saving the Stat

Farmers of Noida have demanded that 4,000 acres of their land that had been acquired by the government in the Noida Extension area be returned to them.

The demand follows an order of the Allahabad High Court that had set aside the acquisition, observing that while acquiring 159 hectares in Shaberri and other villages under Section 17, farmers were not given the right to be heard under Section 5

For the past several months, 179.033 hectares and 142.679 hectares of land in Bhatta and Parsaul, respectively have become a bone of contention between the government and farmers.

The farmers

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