Dipak Kumar Dash | TNN

New Delhi: The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has started the process of identifying constructions encroaching on the Aravali range in Faridabad.

In the past, several farmhouses have been demolished in Gurgaon for being on forest land and for not having the relevant clearances.

Mangalore farmers say land not sold the Mangalore Special Economic Zone limited, or msez, has been razing crops over six hectares (ha) of farmland belonging to the Kudubi tribe living in Perumude village in Dakshin Kannada district of Karnataka since the night of October 21. While the company claimed that the Karnataka Industrial Development Board had transferred the land to the

Chief minister Shibu Soren today released a book, Jharkhand Paridrishya, written by Ranchi additional collector Sunil Kumar Singh.

Orissa holds back excess land allotted to industry arcelor Mittal, Jindal Steel and Power and Bhushan Steel may lose some of the land allotted for their proposed plants in Orissa, with the state government deciding to reassess the land requirement of industries. The focus is on the steel industry, which accounts for the bulk of investments in Orissa. Until now the government had no