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  Jharkhand bandh: Security tightened as opposition protests amendment to Land Acquisition Act

  India | July 05, 2018 14:15 IST

  The JMM and the opposition parties have called for a state-wide bandh in protest against the amendment to the Land Acquisition Act, 2013.

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  Land acquisition bill not a matter of life or death for me: PM Modi

  Politics | May 30, 2015 16:49 IST

  New Delhi: Even as his Cabinet decided today to promulgate the Land Acquisition Ordinance for the third time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the legislation is not “a matter of life or death

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  BJP should not use LG's office to undermine elected AAP govt: CPI

  Politics | May 24, 2015 14:59 IST

  New Delhi: CPI today attacked the BJP government “for using” the Delhi Lieutenant Governor to undermine an elected government and termed its notification on appointment of officials a “provocative step”.  “What the LG did (on

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  Government confident of land bill passage

  Politics | May 22, 2015 16:04 IST

  New Delhi: Government today exuded confidence that land bill will be passed in the next Parliament session, saying “the numbers are very clear”.Addressing a press conference to highlight the achievements of Narendra Modi government in

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  Land-Acquisition warnings from India's special zones

  India | May 20, 2015 14:39 IST

  “Not one inch of land acquired under the proposed new law will be used to favour any company… (The) land bill is purely aimed at ensuring that development reaches villages. Roads, railways and defence production

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  No going back on land bill, open to changes: Gadkari

  Politics | May 19, 2015 18:18 IST

  New Delhi: Union minister Nitin Gadkari today ruled out going back on the land bill but said the government was open to incorporating more amendments which are in the interest of farmers.Government's key pointsman with

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  Rajya Sabha names 10 members to Joint Committee on land bill

  Politics | May 13, 2015 16:17 IST

  New Delhi: Rajya Sabha today named 10 members, including Digvijaya Singh of Congress and TMC's Derek O'Brien, to the Joint Committee that will look into the controversial Land Acquisition Bill.The 30-member Joint Committee of Lok

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  Karuna welcomes Lanka's efforts to solve fishing dispute

  Politics | May 13, 2015 14:17 IST

  Chennai: Welcoming Sri Lanka's efforts to solve the fishing dispute in Palk Strait, DMK today urged the Centre to take steps for bilateral talks involving fishermen of the island nation and India and bring about

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  Modi govt not much different from UPA: Govindacharya

  Politics | May 12, 2015 17:48 IST

  New Delhi: Days after Arun Shourie criticised Narendra Modi Government, BJP's former ideologue K N Govindacharya today too questioned its performance, saying it was not much different from the UPA dispensation and the PM has

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  Modi's popularity dented, people want withdrawal of land bill

  Politics | May 22, 2015 18:50 IST

  New Delhi, May 11: In a severe dent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi government's image, a whopping 78 per cent of the people who responded to a nationwide India TV-CVoter opinion poll, have demanded that

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  No compromise on Land Bill: Mamata

  Politics | May 11, 2015 20:03 IST

  Purulia (WB): There would be no compromise on the Centre's land acquisition bill, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said, sticking to her earlier stand of not supporting the bill.“Why should we support the

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  Negative performance of Modi govt in one year: Nitish

  Politics | May 11, 2015 18:03 IST

  Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today marked as negative the performance of the one year-old Narendra Modi government at the Centre and said it had lost the peoples' faith.“I do not see any achievement

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  Rahul Gandhi accuses Modi government of hurting fishermen's interest

  Politics | May 11, 2015 17:50 IST

  New Delhi:  Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today accused the Narendra Modi government of going against the interests of fishermen in coastal states, saying a ban by the ‘suit-boot ki sarkar' was not allowing them

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  Govt may bring land acquisition bill next week in Lok Sabha

  Politics | May 08, 2015 20:38 IST

  New Delhi: Government today dropped its plans to bring the controversial land acquisition bill in Lok Sabha and has decided to take it up next week amid talks that it could be referred to joint

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  Land acquisition bill in Lok Sabha today

  Politics | May 08, 2015 6:59 IST

  New Delhi: The land acquisition bill is being brought in Lok Sabha today with the government seeking to give another push to the controversial measure despite not having the numbers in the Rajya Sabha.The bill,

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  RSS-affiliated outfit holds protest against land bill

  Politics | May 06, 2015 8:15 IST

  New Delhi: In a move that could embarrass the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government, the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh affiliate, on Tuesday staged a protest at Jantar Mantar here against the “anti-farmer”

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  Congress will continue to oppose land Bill: Ramesh

  Politics | May 04, 2015 16:11 IST

  Bhopal: The Congress will continue its tirade against the land Bill as it is “anti-farmer and dilutes the pro-farmer provisions of Land Acquisition Act-2013” which was passed with the consent of all parties, former Union

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  Road Transport Bill is violative of federal spirit: Karuna

  Politics | May 02, 2015 16:13 IST

  Chennai: Tearing into the NDA government over a proposed controversial transport bill, DMK President M Karunanidhi today said it was violative of the federal spirit and the government had adopted a ‘deceptive' approach to undo

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  Insurance companies denying us our due: Farmers to Rahul on padyatra

  Politics | April 30, 2015 14:46 IST

  Dhamangaon (Maharashtra): Setting out on a padyatra today to meet farmers in the Vidarbha region of the state, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi was told by several of them that insurance companies were engaging in

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  Trinamool won't support land acquisition bill: Mamata

  Politics | April 24, 2015 17:17 IST

  Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress will not support the Land Acquisition Bill proposed by the Narendra Modi-led central government, party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today.“We will not support land acquisition bill.