KOCHI: District Collector M Beena said that around 300 land owners from Vadakkumbhagam, Mattoor and Chelamattom villages are expected to attend the meeting of the District Level Purchase Committee, formed for leading land acquisition for the Angamaly-Sabari Rail route.

Parliamentary committee on land acquisition submits report
BS Reporter / New Delhi October 22, 2008, 0:39 IST

Wants states to acquire all the land needed for industrial projects.

BEIJING: The Communist Party of China (CPC) issued a policy document on Sunday to allow farmers to

Khammam, Oct. 19: Bhadrachalam, a holy town, turned out to be a battlefield as 3,000 tribals, particularly Koyas, desc-ended on the town and set up thatched houses in the controversial land in Puru-shothamapatnam demanding that the government give house sites.

BEIJING: Chinese leaders approved on Sunday a policy that will in theory allow peasants to buy and sell their land rights, a move that sets in motion the nation's biggest economic reform in many years, according to a report by Xinhua, the state news agency.

New Delhi,

In an effort to provide more welfare facilities for the Scheduled Tribes, the tribal affairs ministry has sought diversion of forest land for health and education schemes for these communities.

Saubhadra Chatterji / Dadri October 01, 2008, 23:55 IST

At a conclave two years ago, Congress President Sonia Gandhi had asked party chief ministers to prevent use of