The CPI(ML-L) on Sunday alleged irregularities in acquisition of land by Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority and claimed that successive governments had forcefully acquired farmlands from f
Kolkata, 1 NOV: The Cabinet sub-committee on industry chaired by the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee today gave its approval to the regularising of ceiling-excess land purchased by private inv
From 1970 to 1995 the world made progress in reducing the number of hungry people but the figure always remained above 750 million. Since then, the number has progressively risen, increasing to over a billion in 2009, and remaining above 900 million in 2010.
Gifting of land, or bhoodan in Hindi, is the current obsession of the government. It is on a spree of acquiring land. This is often termed as bhoodan to corporate houses. There is another kind of bhoodan that is being talked about. For a country that is demographically young, this bhoodan took place as a movement when India was just four years old.
Following instructions from the chief minister, the state land and land reforms (L&LR) department will place a host of proposals for acquisition of land for state government projects in the nex
Amitabh Bachchan may have been a popular mascot for the national pulse polio campaign, but the Goa Law Commission has now used the superstar as a celebrity footnote to promote its crucial draft agr
This report is intended to provide an overview of forest tenure in Asia between 2002 and 2010, building on and updating previous regional tenure studies undertaken by the Rights and Resources Initiative, and RRI and the International Tropical Timber Organization.
KOLKATA, 24 AUG: There is no repugnancy between the Land Reforms Act and Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011 as the two are on different footings, advocate-general Mr Anindya Mitra
