Delhi-NCR has entered Stage 1 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) as air quality dropped to the 'poor' category with an AQI of 208. T...

Villagers in Palghar have voluntarily given land for the Vadhvan Port project. As many as 124 landowners agreed to government terms. This l...

Mumbai 3.0 project is underway with MMRDA securing 216 acres in Raigad district. This marks a significant step in a new participatory devel...

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu called the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project a national strategic asset. He launched developmen...

A Supreme Court-appointed team has investigated alleged excess compensation payouts by the Noida Authority. Eleven former officials were qu...

The Supreme Court of India has ruled that financial burden cannot be a reason to deny fair compensation in land acquisition cases. The Nati...

The government is introducing Aadhaar biometric authentication for land acquisition compensation. This ensures payments go directly to land...

Bengaluru's State Cabinet has approved the 117-km Bengaluru Business Corridor project. This ambitious initiative will connect Tumakuru road...

The Supreme Court directed the Karnataka government to compensate landowners at current market value for land acquired in 1986. The court r...

SC has resolved a 30-year-old dispute over compensation rates for landowners near Noida's Sector 18 commercial area. Utilizing its powers u...

The top court also permitted the landowners/farmers to withdraw the compensation amount deposited with the concerned district court along w...

A five-judge bench led by Justice Arun Mishra pronounced its judgement in the case which had earlier seen two contradictory judgements, in ...

In July 2017, the BBMP issued a notification announcing the acquisition in four villages along the Iblur junction-Sarjapur Road for another...

Right to property is now recognized as a constitutional right by Article 300A, which provides that "no person shall be deprived of his prop...

A memorandum of understanding was signed between Andhra Pradesh and Singapore in the presence of the latter’s trade and commerce minister S...

The government expects this to find favour with landowners in the NCR where land prices sky rocket after development.

Giving states leeway to decide on how land is acquired could quell criticism of subverting federal structure that has been often-levelled a...