The people of Dambuk, Kalabari Dambuk, Balukaguri and Amguri Dambuk have flayed the process of land acquisition from Meahaki Tiniali to Dambuk embankment for Bogibeel project at Balukabari land block in the northern bank of the Brahmaputra under Sissi revenue block.

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The huge bauxite deposits in Niyamgiri have led the Vedanta group to set up an alumina refinery at Lanjigarh, making the tribals apprehensive about their habitat

Finally, it was left to the villagers of Sancoale, Verna and Keri to approach the Goa Bench of the Mumbai High Court through three separate writ petitions that challenge the allotment of land to the developers of the Special Economic Zones (SEZs), which were supposed to come up in Goa. The petitions say that the SEZs were allotted land by the Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) in gross violation of the law.

Kolar, DHNS: Revenue Department will soon set in motion the process to acquire 650 acres of land required for implementation of Yaragol project. A sum of Rs 13 crore will be released to the Department within a week in this behalf.

AHMEDABAD: In a major relief to the Adani group, the Supreme Court on Wednesday vacated the stay order that stalled work at its Rs 7,400-crore multi-product special economic zone at Mundra. A bench headed by chief justice KG Balakrishnan, while dismissing the petition of fishermen as withdrawn, asked the Adani group not to fill the creeks.

BS Reporter / New Delhi July 10, 2008, 0:54 IST Though the Planning Commission favours imposition of a direct tax on Special Economic Zones (SEZs), it does not agree with the contention that these tax-free industrial enclaves are leading to revenue loss.

Ranchi: The move to acquire land from ICAR's Ranchi-based Horticulture & Agro Forestry Research Programme (HARP) for a housing scheme for MPs and MLAs has been shelved. "We do not want to get into a land dispute,' Jharkhand Assembly Speaker Alamgir Alam said on Wednesday.

J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday vacated the status quo order on construction work at Adani group's Rs. 7,400-crore multi-product Special Economic Zone (SEZ) near the Mundra port in Gujarat. A Bench comprising the Chief Justice, K.G. Balakrishnan, and Justices P. Sathasivam and J.M. Panchal vacated the interim order after hearing senior counsel Harish Salve, appearing for the Adani Group. As counsel for petitioners wanted to withdraw the petition, the Bench dismissed it as withdrawn. The Bench, however, asked the Adani Group not to fill the creeks.

BS Reporter / New Delhi July 10, 2008, 0:55 IST The Supreme Court today vacated its own stay order against the development of Mundra Port and special economic zone (SEZ), granting a major relief to the Adani Group, the developers of the SEZ. The multi-product SEZ in Gujarat was stalled by the order of the vacation Bench of the court on July 1. The Adani Group had not been heard when the status quo order was passed.