After the Madras High Court released the order in April this year, Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami had commented that it w...

TRS government has also announced farmland acquisitions for certain irrigation projects under the Central land Act, sending confusing signa...

The observation came while dismissing a plea of a resident welfare association (RWA) to restrain the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) from...

It is revealing that in neither the US or China, at opposite ends of systems of governance, is any consent required when land is acquired f...

The Land Acquisition Act also allows the landowner to reclaim land if the state hasn’t been able to determine compensation for it within a ...

The govt says the bill, which will replace a muddled law dating back to the 19th century, will help speed up industrial investment.

If the Cabinet approves the Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2012, then squatters too will have to be given rehab...

In the winter of 2009, Vilam Singh, a young tribal farmer from Chhattisgarh's Kawardha district, applied for 100 rupee-a-day work under MNR...

Mamata pulled off two big-ticket wins on Wednesday. One at the Calcutta High Court, where she won a legal battle against Tata Motors.

The real estate sector has had much to moan about in the last few months due to rising interest rates, dipping sales and large-scale agitat...

For far too long mineral concessions have remained quite unrevised, thus depriving mineral-rich states of substantial funds for poverty all...

The challenge in infrastructure is creative politics to find unconventional solutions to unconventional problems.

The 165-km Yamuna Expressway promising a 2-hour drive to Agra from Noida is finally free from the cumbersome land acquisition litigations t...

The 2007 attempt to reform the 1894 Act that enables land acquisition is yet to reach fruition.

The Supreme Court called for a report from the Claims Commission on the issue of denial of compensation to the dispossessed whose land were...

The Supreme Court will on Tuesday hear a petition challenging the Calcutta High Court's decision that held as legal, the acquisition of lan...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has lampooned the West Bengal Government for failing to stop Communist Party of India-Marxist (...