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  Lok Sabha passes historic Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation Bill

  Politics | August 29, 2013 23:29 IST

  New Delhi: The path-breaking Land Acquisition Bill, which seeks to provide just and fair compensation to farmers while ensuring that no land can be aquired forcibly, was passed by the Lok Sabha with overwhelming majority

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  Land acquisition for laying of Indo-Bangla railway track

  India | July 05, 2013 15:04 IST

  Agartala, Jul 5: With the completion of survey for 15 KM railway track from Agartala to Akhaura in Bangladesh, the work for acquisition of land for laying the tracks would be started this year, official

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  Land acquisition bill deferred to budget session

  Politics | December 19, 2012 11:15 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 19: The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011, was Tueday deferred to the budget session of parliament after opposition members said the government was rushing with the legislation."Either extend the current

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  Land acquisition is illegal if owners are not intimated, rules SC

  India | June 29, 2012 16:52 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 29: Land acquisition proceedings will become illegal if government fails to observe the mandatory requirement of issuing public notices to the affected parties, the Supreme Court has held, quashing Maharashtra government's acquisition

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  Allahabad HC scraps another land acquisition in Greater Noida

  India | May 31, 2012 13:52 IST

  Allahabad, May 31: In yet another indictment of land acquisition policy of previous Mayawati government, Allahabad High Court  yesterday quashed acquisition of 68 hectares of village land on pretext of “planned industrial development” in Greater

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  Farmer Be Compensated For Trees Also In Land Acquisition

  India | September 13, 2011 21:23 IST

  New Delhi, Sep 13: Farmers, whose land is being acquired by government, should be compensated not only for their land but also for the plantation on the land, the Supreme Court has said.A three-judge bench

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  Farmers Be Given Market Price For Land Acquisition: SC

  India | August 25, 2011 21:50 IST

  New Delhi, Aug 25: Compensation given by the government to farmers while acquiring their land should be decided on the basis of its market value, the Supreme Court has held.While increasing the base price from

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  Talks Between Farmers, Greater Noida Authority Fail

  India | August 05, 2011 22:35 IST

  Greater Noida, Aug 5: Negotiations between Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) and farmers of four villages here over the land acquisition controversy failed to reach a conclusion with villagers demanding that all the points

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  SC Quashes Mayawati's Land Acquisition For Jail

  India | August 03, 2011 20:11 IST

  New Delhi, Aug 3: In a fresh jolt to Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court today quashed the state's move to acquire private land by invoking the “emergency clause” in Jyotibha Phule Nagar

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  BJP To Raise Mumbai Blasts, Land Acquisition, Graft In Parliament

  Politics | July 30, 2011 21:05 IST

  New Delhi, Jul 30: Mumbai serial blasts, Maoist violence, corruption and black money stashed by Indians in foreign banks are some of the prominent issues which the BJP will raise in the forthcoming Monsoon session

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  Jaipur Farmers Ask Rahul To Join Their Protest Over Land Acquisition

  India | July 29, 2011 10:48 IST

  Jaipur, July 29: Farmers in Jaipur have invited Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to join their protest over the Ashok Gehlot government's land acquisition policy, reports DNA. The farmers whose land is going to be

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  Noida Farmers Mahapanchyat Issues Aug 5 Ultimatum

  India | July 24, 2011 15:18 IST

  Noida, July 24: The mahapanchayat of farmers from Noida and Greater Noida on Sunday upped the ante by issuing an ultimatum to the authorities to fulfil their demands by August 5, failing which the farmers

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  Farmers Sit On Dharna In Noida

  India | July 22, 2011 13:12 IST

  Noida, Jul 22 : Hundreds of farmers  on Wednesday  sat on dharna at Sector 74-75 here, protesting land acquisition by the state government and demanding hike in compensation.The farmers, under the banner of Kisan Sangarsh

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  Second Shock For Noida Extension Builders, High Court Quashes 589 Hectare Land Acquisition

  India | July 19, 2011 20:02 IST

  Allahabad, July 19: The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday quashed the land acquistion of 589 hectares of land  in Patwari village after the villagers petitioned that their land was acquired at cheap rates by the

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  Most Villages In Noida Extension To Challenge Land Acquisition

  India | July 07, 2011 9:24 IST

  New Delhi, Jul 7 : The Supreme Court order upholding the quashing of acquisition of 156.9 hectares of land in Shah Beri village has virtually opened the floodgates of similar demands from all the remaining

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  Noida Extension Land Acquisition: SC Slams State Govt

  India | July 06, 2011 8:58 IST

  New Delhi, Jul 5: The Supreme Court today slammed the authorities for taking advantage of the “colonial law” on land acquisition to divest farmers of their prime agricultural land benefitting the rich and paying “pittiance”

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  BSP Says, Rahul's Visit To Bhatta Parsaul Is A Mere Drama

  India | July 06, 2011 8:50 IST

  Lucknow, July 5: Dismissing Rahul Gandhi's visit to Bhatta Parsaul today as dramatics, Uttar Pradesh's ruling BSP said if he is sensitive to the problems of farmers he should pressurise the Centre to formulate a

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  CPI Hits Out At CPI(M) For Functioning Unilaterally

  Politics | June 27, 2011 22:58 IST

  Kolkata, June 27: Major Left Front partner CPI today severely criticised the CPI(M) for taking “unilateral decisions” on important issues like land acquisition at Singur despite protests by other partners and said the LF should

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  Rahul is the voice of the farmers: Joshi

  Politics | June 19, 2011 21:48 IST

  Noida, Jun 19 : As part of the celebrations to mark Rahul Gandhi's birthday, Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi today visited violence-hit Bhatta Parsaul village where the Amethi MP had sat on a

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  Rains Prevent Posco Land Acquisition In Orissa

  June 17, 2011 15:18 IST

  Bhubaneswar, Jun 17 :  Land acquisition by the Orissa government for Posco's Rs 52,000 crore steel plant project in Jagatsinghpur district, which was to resume today after a five-day break, could not commence due to