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......

Nationwide strike over labour reforms, MSP may hit key sectors

Banking, postal and other services are likely to face disruption on Wednesday as more than 25 crore workers affiliated with central and sectoral trade unions have announced to go on strike across......

Waqf Bill brazen assault on Constitution: Sonia Gandhi

Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Thursday termed the Waqf (Amendment) Bill as a 'brazen assault' on the Constitution, saying it was part of the Bharatiya Janata Party's......

Explained: Changes that NDA wants to bring to land law

Joyita Ghose on the land acquisition laws in the country and the changes that the NDA government’s controversial bill in Parliament makes to the land acquisition act, 2013 brought in by the......

Things you must know about the Land Acquisition Bill

The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2012. The Bill will replace the existing Land Acquisition Act, 1894. State still holds......

Who will benefit most from proposed changes in the land bill?

With the spread of education and enhanced access to information on the developments around the world, the young in farmer households have the same aspirations as their counterparts elsewhere in the......

Govt's land law revives lost order of sarkar raj

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......

Land bill: Amendments to original laws made covertly

Clauses on land return, action against officials diluted The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s land ordinance, approved by the President on Wednesday, has made several......