THE government on Wednesday approved a Rs 1,205.52-crore highway project for fourlaning of national highway (NH-7) linking Madhya Pradesh with Maharastra. The 95.06 kilometre stretch will be developed by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) under the public-private partnership model.

Durgapur, Feb. 10: All 71 landowners called to register their objections to land acquisition for the airport city in Andal today refused to part with their plots unless the Bengal government negotiated the compensation directly with them.

The owners boycotted the hearing after two of them were heard, saying their demands were the same, and filed a joint petition.

The Salcete Schedule Tribes Association have strongly demanded that paddy fields cultivated by ST people should not be acquired by the government and to allot communidade land for the Scheduled tribes for the purpose of housing.

Chandigarh: In the wake of the Chandigarh Administration

Mumbai: Raigad's farmers are up in arms against the government, which, they say, is working in favour of Reliance for the proposed SEZ in their area and for this purpose wants to establish that 22 villages do not come under the command area of the Hetwane dam.

DURGAPUR, Feb. 5: Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Limited expects to possess land by October this year for the building of the country's first airport city in Andal, near Durgapur,

ANDAL, Feb. 4: Farmers in Andal have demanded a revised compensation package for the proposed Aerotropolis land acquisition. Despite increasing tension in the area, the land owners' objections are yet to yield a response from the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC).

BARJORA, Feb 4: As the state reaches the boiling point on the issue of land acquisition, a section of struggling Barjora farmers in Bankura are attempting to reach a mutually benefiting agreement with development authorities.

Shimla: Farmers intensify protests against acquisition; Sundernagar plant in trouble

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