New Delhi : Following parliament approval in September last year, the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, came into force on

Panel asks RIL to submit additional material to ascertain project’s impact on environment as it fears serious threat to marine life in the vicinity

Veerappa Moily may have to deal with a Reliance problem again, this time in the environment ministry. Reliance Industries’ expansion plan for its facilities at the Sikka port in Gujarat’s Jamnagar is facing a green wall. A statutory environmental panel flagged some concerns over the project. The ministry, where Moily took charge in late December, considers this panel’s recommendations for giving environmental clearances.

The Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam affiliated to Communist Party of India (CPI) said that the farmers who had raised rain fed crops had suffered heavy loss due to the failure of North-East monsoon a

Perumbakkam wetland in Sholinganallur is among the last surviving vast patches of prime wetland and a hotspot for bird-watchers in Chennai’s immediate suburbs in the south.

Land acquisition may continue to be a hurdle despite Parliament approving the new Land Acquisition Bill, but the country’s top corporates are sitting on around 2,200 hectares that have become avail

The historic Land Acquisition Bill on Wednesday moved another step closer to becoming a law with Rajya Sabha approving the legislation which seeks to provide fair and just compensation to farmers a