Exclusive! Medha Patkar: Land acquisition ordinance will destroy poor

The new ordinance on land acquisition will allow land grabbers to deprive millions, destroy agriculture, horticulture, rivers, forests, tree cover and mangroves to extract minerals as well as......

President's address to the Parliament

Following is the trascriptof President Pratibha Patil's address to the joint sittingof Parliament on Thursday.Honourable Members, I convey my good wishes to you and to all our people. On behalf of......

2006: An eventful year for W Bengal

Singur, the site of the Tata Motors car project, was in the political limelight in 2006 as the issue of farmland acquisition snowballed into a major controversy in West Bengal where the ruling Left......

Confused about the Budget proposals? Please read this

Extends fiscal deficit reduction roadmap by one year to 2017-18 Raises services tax, to implement GST by April 2016 and cut corporation tax from 2016-17 to 25% by 2020 The Government has presented......

'We have great expectations from this Budget'

'Industry status' to boost domestic bank lending and increase FDI in real estate Mehul Thakur - Director, Viva Homes Infrastructural development has been at the forefront of the new government's......

India's most ambitious airport city project in a limbo

  Dispute between the promoters of the Rs 12,000-crore airport city project has been simmering for four years.  Seven years on, however, the project is awaiting clearances from the......

India's first aerotropolis is mired in controversies

While BAPL's bosses suggest that this project will help build a community of residents, there are allegations that this is actually a real estate project masquerading as an airport, point......

Sourav signs MoU for cricket academy

Indian captain Sourav Gangulysigned an MoU with Videocon International Limited, the country's leading consumer electronics and home appliances company, for establishing a world class cricket......