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 …
To make Odisha an industrial state, the Naveen Patnaik government signed MoUs with 30 independent power producers (IPPs) to set up their units in the state since 2005. Eleven years on, only three IPPs - Vedanta Limited at Jharsuguda, GMR Kamalanga Energy Limited in Dhenkanal and Jindal India Thermal Power …
The peacefulness of the lush green fields of paddy and maize lining the road to Vemulaghat village in Telangana, India belies the anger of villagers protesting against the southern state's plans to acquire about 21,000 acres of land for a reservoir. The Komuravelli Mallanna Sagar reservoir will irrigate 1.2 million …
International land deals, often for giant agriculture projects, now cover an area the size of Germany and a growing share are getting up and running, fuelling fears that local residents will be displaced, the anti-poverty group Oxfam said on Monday. More than 1,500 large-scale land deals have been signed in …
A Human Rights Watch report on the mining industry in Malawi has revealed that rights of people in communities close to mining sites are being hugely violated. The report titled “They Destroyed Everything Mining and Human Right in Malawi" says it has always been difficult for the community members to …
Freshwater appropriation can have vast impacts, depending on management and scale of water use. Since 2000, foreign investors have contracted an area the size of the United Kingdom in Africa, leading to increased pressure on water resources. Here we couple site-specific water demand for the crops planted there to the …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of R. Rajashekar and Ors. Vs. Trinity House Building Co-Operative Society and Others regarding acquisition of agricultural lands belonging to poor agriculturalists by Trinity House Building Co-Operative Society. Supreme Court rules that the transfer of the acquired lands by way …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Delhi Development Authority Vs Sukhbir Singh & Others dated 09/09/2016 regarding the correct construction of Section 24(2) of The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 with respect to 33 bighas and …
The central executive committee of peasants’ organisation, All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha (AIKMS), has demanded that the West Bengal government immediately pay compensation to share croppers, landless labourers and other dependants on land who have suffered due to illegal acquisition of 997 acres of land for Tata Motors at Singur …
Secretary, Union Ministry of Coal , Anil Swarup took pride in the two-year journey of Coal India Limited saying that the growth of CIL in a short span of two years has been unprecedented in the entire world. He said, "Two years before, we would have coal stock for four-five …
In a set back to the Tatas, the Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside the land acquired by the previous Left Front government in West Bengal for the Nano car plant, saying due processes and procedures were not followed. The land was acquired in 2006 for the car project, which …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Kedar Nath Yadav Vs State of West Bengal And Others dated 31/08/2016 regarding acquisition of land by Tata Motors Ltd. to an extent of about 1000 acres within the mouzas Gopalnagar, Singherberi, Beraberi, Khaserberi and Bajemelia, P.S. Singur, District …
Visakhapatnam: Even as the state government has planned to develop an integrated sports complex by taking over lands from Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP), several trade unions associated with the steel plant have expressed their opposition to the move. According to the trade unions, 250 acres, which has been sought by …
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Thursday attacked NDA ally Ajsu-P over the latter's comment on JMM president Shibu Soren and his son Hemant. JMM general secretary Supriyo Bhattacharya and central spokesperson Vinod Pandey accused Ajsu-P of doing politics of self-interest in the light of the ongoing statewide protests against ordinance …
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court on Wednesday issued a notice to the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and other concerned authorities in response to a petition filed by farmers from Gandhinagar district against the road-widening project. Farmers from Valad village and nearby villages have filed the petition. They have …
Kampala — As the debate on the proposed government amendments to the Land Act rages on, the Uganda National Roads Authority has also proposed new amendments to the Land Acquisition Act, 1965 as a measure to expedite infrastructure projects in the country and check the skyrocketing compensation costs. The Lands …
Around 5,000 farmers took part in a rally at Karjat to protest against the laying of a gas pipeline on their farm lands by a private company. Members of NCP, Congress, Shiv Sena and PWP also participated in the rally. The protesters rallied from the police ground to the Karjat …
Modi government’s North East push will only see 7.5 per cent road target achieved New Delhi: Even as poor road connectivity in India’s North East region continues to stall the government’s ‘Act East Policy’, the state-run company mandated to improve this crucial infrastructure will barely manage 7.5 per cent of …
Farmers from villages of Kayar and Vembedu went on a fast against the acquisition of fertile agricultural lands by the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) for installing overhead high tension 440 kilo volt (KV) transmission line, outside the State Guest House in the city on Tuesday. K. Sitrarasu, …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Forest Right Act, 18/07/2016. As per the information received from various State Governments /UT Administrations upto 31st May, 2016, 44,27,613 claims (43,11,233 individual and 1,16,380 community claims) have been filed and 17,46,338 titles (17,02,846 individual and 43,492 community claims) have been distributed comprising 43.92 …
The Indian arm of the Amnesty International, a global NGO on human rights, on Wednesday released a comprehensive report on flip side of coal mining operations in Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Jharkhand, highlighting a pattern of human rights violations in open-cast mines run by different subsidiaries of the state-owned Coal India …
