Noida land compensation probe: SIT questions 11 former officials, flags 20 exorbitant' payoutsA Supreme Court-appointed team has investigated alleged excess compensation payouts by the Noida Authority. Eleven former officials were qu...
03 Apr, 2026, 09.37 AM IST
Supreme Court issues notice on NHAI’s plea seeking review of ruling on retrospective solatium and interest paymentsThe Supreme Court has issued notice on the National Highway Authority of India's plea. NHAI seeks review of a judgment granting retrospecti...
04 Nov, 2025, 07.04 PM IST
Land for highways left unused for 5 years will be returned; govt's new rules aim to clear roadblocksThe Central government proposes returning unused land acquired for highway projects to original owners after five years and limiting compen...
17 Mar, 2025, 12.48 PM IST
Illegal compensation to land owners: Supreme Court appoints SIT to probe NOIDA functioningThe Supreme Court has appointed an SIT to investigate allegations of illegal compensation payments by NOIDA officials to land owners. The S...
24 Jan, 2025, 01.43 PM IST
Government cannot withhold acquisition compensation of years: Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court directed the Karnataka government to compensate landowners at current market value for land acquired in 1986. The court r...
05 Dec, 2024, 01.27 PM IST
SC upholds validity of land acquisition by Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority in NoidaThe Supreme Court upheld the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority's land acquisition in Gautam Budh Nagar, deeming it legal a...
26 Nov, 2024, 08.40 PM IST
Supreme Court settles 30-year Noida land compensation saga with uniform compensation of Rs 403 per sq ydSC has resolved a 30-year-old dispute over compensation rates for landowners near Noida's Sector 18 commercial area. Utilizing its powers u...
12 Jul, 2024, 12.58 PM IST
Norms prescribe higher pay for land use in transmission projectsLandowners will get compensated for the tower base area at 200% of the land value, against 80% now, as per the new norms, while compensatio...
21 Jun, 2024, 01.01 PM IST
SC upholds acquisition of land by DDA, DSIIDC, DMRC between 1957 and 2006 for public infra projectsAfter hearing arguments on a batch of hundreds of petitions, a bench of justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and Ujjal Bhyan passed the verd...
25 May, 2024, 06.55 PM IST
Gujarat govt doubles land payout for installing power infraAt present, affected farmers and landowners are entitled to get a compensation equivalent to 7.5 per cent of their land value within the "R...
03 Jan, 2022, 05.04 PM IST
Uppal Housing moves High Court to know if landowner can be called promoterUppal Housing is the landowner of Winter Hills, a residential project of builder Umang Realtech at Dwarka Mor in Delhi. Now, the Appellate ...
13 Nov, 2019, 07.54 AM IST
Re-revised TDR soon as infrastructure projects sufferThe letter cited the case of Alphonse from Doddakannelli village, a landowner whose converted agriculture land has been acquired for a proj...
05 Feb, 2018, 11.10 AM IST
Lawyers alone to gain from New TDR Rules?The new rules were seen as the Urban Development Department’s attempt to make land development rights far more attractive for private lando...
27 Dec, 2017, 11.04 AM IST
New transferable development rights rules hit landowners hardIn July 2017, the BBMP issued a notification announcing the acquisition in four villages along the Iblur junction-Sarjapur Road for another...
26 Dec, 2017, 10.31 AM IST
- GoM inches closer to consensus on land bill; Sharad Pawar to address key issues next week
The GoM on the land bill inched closer to a consensus, but the panel headed by Sharad Pawar hopes to thrash out several key issues next wee...
28 Sep, 2012, 05.00 AM IST
- Land acquisition: Haryana's ‘land pooling’ scheme offers partnership to owners
The government expects this to find favour with landowners in the NCR where land prices sky rocket after development.
20 Aug, 2012, 11.53 AM IST
- Land acquisition bill: States to decide who acquires land
Giving states leeway to decide on how land is acquired could quell criticism of subverting federal structure that has been often-levelled a...
28 Jul, 2011, 10.16 AM IST