Kathmandu Valley has been subject to a rapid process of urbanization. Particularly noteworthy in recent years has been the spiraling price of land, with an associated boom in the real estate sector and land speculation.

The people of Zimbabwe have to cope with a difficult political situation, but they also face many other problems daily. Climate change is making entire areas of land infertile and may halve crop yields by 2020. Zimbabwe

The marathon exercise to elect as many as 53,000 rural representatives

Ranchi, Dec.

KARACHI: The only ultimate remedy to save the country was to limit maximum land holdings and anybody owning land greater than set up by the government, should be distributed among poor farmers.

This was stated by MQM chief Altaf Hussain on Tuesday in a telephonic address to MQM legislators at the party headquarters Nine Zero.

He said that the MQM

Devjyot Ghoshal & Ishita Ayan Dutt / Kolkata/ Lalgarh (west Medinipur) August 10, 2010, 0:32 IST

Promises land rights for tribals, prods insurgents to give up violence

If all roads were leading to Lalgarh early on Monday, by late afternoon there was hardly a way out of the town in the heart of West Bengal

This paper considers the extent to which the Forest Rights Act 2006, potentially the most comprehensive institutional reform of forest rights in India since Independence, may ameliorate the high levels of chronic and acute poverty in forested areas of Andhra Pradesh.

Sabyasachi Bandopadhyay

After Land and Land Reforms Minister Abdur Rezzaq Mollah and Housing and Public Health Engineering Minister Gautam Dev, it was West Bengal Assembly Speaker Hasim Abdul Halim who put Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhjattacharjee on the dock, saying it was some of the wrong policies of the state government that had led to the Left Front

KOLKATA: The State Government passed two Bills, including the West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill 2010, on Monday amid noisy protests in the Assembly and a walkout by legislators of the Trinamool Congress and the Congress .The MLAs stormed into the well of the House soon after proceedings began and raised slogans against the government demanding withdrawal of theland reforms Bill.

Trinamul Congress and Congress MLAs today staged a walk out in the Assembly demanding withdrawal of two Bills ~ The West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 2010 and The West Bengal Acquisition of Homestead Land for Agricultural Labourers, Artisans and Fishermen (Amendment) Bill, 2010.

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