The Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011 seeks to discriminate between willing and unwilling farmers and is, hence, inconsistent with the Central Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Tatas’ c

Tata Motors counsel, Mr Samadaitya Pal, on Friday, argued that the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011 was “bad in law”.

Jairam Ramesh, the minister in charge of rural development, has turned his attention to the Land Acquisition Amendment Bill almost immediately after taking charge of his new portfolio. Perhaps the alacrity with which Ramesh has focussed on the land Bill reflects the importance that the acquisition of agricultural land for non-agricultural uses has taken on in India.

Tata Motors on Monday held at the Calcutta High Court that it had not

The Tata Motors counsel today told Calcutta High Court that the

Mamata Banerjee with farmers after the Singur Bill was passed in the State Assembly in Kolkata on June 14.

Trinamool Congress doesn't think much of the apex court's order to redistribute the Singur land acquired for the Tata Nano project to farmers.

Tata Motors Ltd. filed before the Calcutta High Court on Monday an amendment to its writ petition filed on June 22 challenging the constitutional validity of the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011.

A large number of farmers who had taken compensation for their land that was handed over to Tata Motors for the Singur small car project, are in the official list of

The Hooghly district authorities today put up a notice outside the Singur BDO office displaying names of 1,705 farmers who are eligible to get back their land under the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011.
After the modalities to return land at Singur started, more than four thousand forms reclaiming plots were submitted by the farmers.

The notice, dated 2 July, stated that t