Affidavit filed by Chhattisgarh East West Railway Limited in the matter of Sudiep Shrivastava Vs Union of India & Others dated 15/04/2025. The appeal was disposed of by the NGT, April 29, 2019. However, the order was challenged before the Supreme Court (SC). The SC, November 26, 2024 disposed of …
Gargi Parsai New Delhi: Several farmer leaders have sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to reject the recommendation of the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) for commercial release of Bt brinjal. Speaking to journalists here Rakesh Tikait of the Bhartiya Kisan Union, Yudhvir Singh of the Coordination Committee …
objection: Farmers, farm labourers and members of farm organisations staging a demonstration in Madurai on Wednesday. MADURAI: Farmers, farm labourers, workers and members of various Tamil nationalist parties and a few Dalit organisations came together here on Wednesday to protest against the decision of the Central Government to allow a …
About 65 farmers have been detained by the police for demolishing structures on 13.2 acre panchayati land erected by a solar power company at Awan village, 16 km from here, today. The farmers have been protesting against the construction of solar power project on the panchayat land allegedly offered to …
Facing water shortage, farmers led by the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) today held a protest demanding release of water in Western Yamuna canal from Hamida headworks. In view of the BKU threat to open the gates of the headworks, a heavy police force was deployed at the headworks since morning. …
CH Prashanth Reddy / Hyderabad April 14, 2009, 0:47 IST They are displaced farmers and they know that their chance of getting elected is very remote. Yet, they have entered the electoral fray. As many as 15 farmers of Polepally village in the backward Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh have …
Chandigarh: The UT Administration on Thursday announced a compensation of Rs 18.75 lakh per acre for the acquisition of land in Manimajra for the Phase III construction of the Rajiv Gandhi Chandigarh Technology Park. The landowners, however, were a disgruntled lot after the announcement. The compensation was announced today for …
Chandigarh: A meeting of Markfed officials was held here on Tuesday. It was decided that the federation would be taking up the marketing of potatoes. However, a final decision in this regard was kept pending.
Parmindar Singh Greater Noida, February 2 The district administration has arrested 162 agitating farmers of two villages, Dhada and Sakipur. The farmers were scheduled to go to Delhi to meet the President demanding bonus payment to be effective from 2005. The administration says their demand was unjustified while the farmers …
Farmers of Bagepalli, Gudibande and Gauribidanur taluks in Chikkaballapur district took out a protest rally against the Centre and State governments economic policies favouring the rich, on Thursday, under the aegis of Prantha Raitha Sangha. The farmers have started a 24 -hour agitation in front of the deputy commissioner
LUCKNOW: The agitating farmers of Mathura on Thursday took off their clothes and staged a march, clad in minimum possible clothes, demanding an increase in the compensation of their agricultural land been acquired by the government for the Expressway project. On the other hand, all major commercial segments including city …
Farmers and activists of the Haryana Yuva Kisan Sangharsh Samiti marched to the Parliament House on Friday demanding water supply for drinking and irrigational needs. Hundreds of farmers, headed by Mr Naresh Yadav, an independent MLA from Atelli, alleged that the state government was blind to the water crisis and …
Today turned to be the most inconvenient day for commuters, tourists and general passengers here when they have experienced a lot of hardship when agitating farmers from this subdivision under the banner of the Kisan Vikas Sabha (KVS) blocked traffic at three different routes paralysing the whole traffic movement for …
The Singur plant will require a full 1,000 acres since the ancillary units are an integral part of the small-car project, Tata Motors has clarified to the state government through a letter. "We had sent a letter to the Tata Motors managing director (Ravi Kant) to find out what exactly …
A "worried' Ratan Tata has no intention to pull out of Singur "until and unless forced to do so', the Bengal government said tonight in the first public admission that the car project is not as foregone as was being made out. "Actually, he is quite worried about the developments …
Nalas (Rajpura): Following agitation by villagers in Nabha, now residents of over seven villages near Rajpura are up in arms against the government's plan to procure around 1,000 acres of fertile land for the 1,320 MV Rajpura Thermal Power Project (RTPP) near Nalas. The villagers demand is to be paid …
JAIPUR: Hundreds of small and marginal farmers from 25 districts of Rajasthan took part in a rally organised here on Wednesday to register their protest against a mini-ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation planning to conclude the Draft Modalities on Agriculture in Geneva on July 21. The participants in …
Activists of five farmers unions and rural workers staged a dharna in front of the deputy commissioner's office here today. They were demanding redressing of their complaints and starting projects for the rural poor under the NREGA in the district. President of the Rural Workers Association Sant Ram, convener of …
