Gurgaon: On Friday, the Supreme Court will take up for hearing the various interlocutory applications (IA) on petitions on mining and other non-forest activities on forest land in Haryana and Rajasthan.

IN ORDER to liberalise the land acquisition system and boost the current industrialisation process, West Bengal government on Thursday brought some changes in the existing land-acquisition process. The objective is to reduce the time required for conversion of land character and mutation of land.

Biswajeet Banerjee | Surma (Dudhwa)

Relocation of villages located inside the core forest areas to the fringes has taken a political hue as different political parties were going an extre mile to sympathise with the villagers and asking them to stay put.

Despite High Court and government orders, political leaders have assured the villagers that

DURGAPUR, Feb. 11: The second day of the public hearing for the state

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,