More than 30 police personnel were injured when a group of villagers protesting against the expansion of an open-cast coal mine clashed with them and hurled stones in Chhattisgarh's Surguja......
The much-anticipated cryptocurrency bill, however, is missing from the list, reports Shrimi Choudhary. The government is set to introduce 17 new bills in the monsoon session of Parliament,......
Training guns on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress party on Tuesday discounted his contention that the United Progressive Alliance government had excluded 13 acts from the land bill which......
'If I am angry, then I do not have the right to be in the Cabinet. Whatever I have done, I have ensured that farmers' interests are protected,' Rural Development Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh,......
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......
Centre plans to acquire land and then give it on lease to miners. In order to ease the coal mining process for the upcoming commercial coal auction, the Centre is mulling to allow land acquisition......
With the Supreme Court order on cancelling coal mining rights expected to throw up legal challenges for the National Democratic Alliance government, the ministry of coal is preparing a back-up......
Coal accounts for more than 60 per cent of India's electricity capacity, and the government plans to nearly double annual coal output by 2020, opening a new mine nearly every month India's drive......
For PPP projects, clause on consent requirement could be abolished or brought down to 50% of land owners, against the current 70% To make the land acquisition Act of 2013 industry-friendly, the......
The ordinance has returned near absolute power of discretion in land acquisition, except in tribal areas, into the hands of the bureaucracy yet again Even after the National Democratic......