Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had on Monday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and complained to him about alleged 'rape' of women and 'murder' of farmers agitating against land acquisition in Mayawati-ruled Uttar Pradesh.
Some ministers Monday voiced concern over the deliberations of the Union Cabinet appearing in the media following which all the ministers were counseled not to leak the proceedings.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday accused the Congress and other opposition parties of attempting to disturb law and order by spreading rumours on land acquisition and dubbed Rahul Gandhi's dharna in Greater Noida as "mean theatrics". She said the clashes in Bhatta Parsaul in Greater Noida had nothing to do with the issue of land compensation.
Union Rural development Minister Jairam Ramesh is burning the midnight oil to bring the Land Acquisition and Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill 2011 before the Cabinet on Monday so that it can be cleared and then introduced in Parliament before the Monsoon Session ends on September 8.
Blaming Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for the violence over land acquisition in Noida and adjoining areas, Samajwadi Party on Monday alleged that the Bahujan Samaj Party government had ignored farmers' interests while taking over their land.
Tension prevailed on Monday in parts of western Uttar Pradesh hit by farmers' unrest over land acquisition even as a heavy police deployment was made in the affected areas and political leaders were detained preventing them from reaching the troubled spots.
it's a small-minded attempt at tackling an issue that either the director has read only sparingly or has not understood with all its complexities.
In conversation with Shubhashish and Arijit Barman, Rakesh Arora, managing director and head of research, Macquarie Capital Securities (India) Pvt Ltd and among the most authoritative metal analysts in India, says companies should start taking environmental laws more seriously.
As the West Bengal chief minister was busy containing the fallout of an internecine feud in her TMC following a rebellion by a redoubtable Suvendu Adhikari, the Centre shot off a fresh letter to her government to immediately relieve three IPS officers for central deputation.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also said 800 cheques would be distributed among the farmers who had not taken them earlier
The Bahujan Samaj Party and Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party forced adjournment of the Rajya Sabha on the opening day of the monsoon session of Parliament, protesting delay in introduction of new law on land acquisition and scams, including 2G spectrum.
The broad direction for the reform process will continue to be positive.
The National Highways Authority of India will this year witness the highest ever growth out of the last decade. But Gadkari himself admits his biggest failure as India's roads minister has been his inability to curb loss of life in road accidents.
Shiv Sena has so far expressed concerns over car shed for the city's planned metro network, the bullet train and the West Coast refinery projects.
The Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs staged a walkout ahead of the voice vote.
Real estate firms are facing a cash crunch because of low sales, increasing inventory costs and higher cost of funds.
The 41-year-old Congress general secretary is on the second day of his padayatra -- 'Kisan Sandesh Yatra' -- in western Uttar Pradesh, a footmarch billed as a campaign against Chief Minister Mayawati ahead of the Congress's proposed 'kisan mahapanchayat' in the neighbouring Aligarh district on July 9
The Congress general secretary made Bhatta Parsaul, which saw widespread protests over land acquisition two months back, the first stop of his 'Kisan Sandesh Yatra' when he came calling in a car at 6 am drumming up support for the planned kisan mahapanchayat in Aligarh on Saturday
In a setback to the Mayawati government and thousands of apartment buyers, the Allahabad high court on Friday set aside acquisition of land in three villages of Noida, Greater Noida and Noida Extension areas while ordering enhanced compensation to farmers of some other villages in Gautam Budh Nagar district.
It's time Rahul Gandhi became attuned to the reality of the 21st century instead of recycling failed political jargon of the 20th century,' argues Virendra Kapoor.
The government has announced a crop insurance policy.
States' land acquisition policies need rethinking.
As FIIs pull out of road projects, doubts have surfaced about the future of new highways and roads
A Uttar Pradesh court on Monday dismissed a petition challenging a lower court order directing the Greater Noida police to file a case against 15 policemen and a commandant for allegedly raping a woman during the crackdown on farmers opposing land acquisition in Bhatta-Parsaul villages.
The UPA government has decided to introduce two contentious bills -- the Goods and Services Tax Bill and the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill -- in the budget session of Parliament that kicks off on Monday.
Housing minister in the previous West Bengal government, Gautam Deb discusses the reasons behind the party's rout and the policies of the new government led by Mamata Banerjee.
Under attack over violence in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday launched a scathing attack on Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party on the issue of land acquisition.
Modi sarkar took few initiatives to uplift the poor strate of society.
The NBA had moved applications for expunging certain adverse remarks made by the apex court in the May 11 judgement lashing out at the NGO for making false statements in the affidavit for securing favourable order.
Hits street with demonstrations across 75 UP districts
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will join social activist Anna Hazare in his protest against the land ordinance on Tuesday at the Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has refused to endorse any law that leaves the job of buying 70 per cent of the land to the private sector.
While the Navi Mumbai airport project has been cleared for take off, two other big-ticket projects in Maharashtra - a cargo hub in Nagpur and an international airport at Rajgurunagar near Pune - are grounded because of delays in land acquisition.
Congress leader and Union minister Sachin Pilot was on Sunday arrested by Uttar Pradesh Police while he was on his way to violence-hit Bhatta-Parsaul village in Greater Noida district to meet families of farmers injured in the recent agitation on land acquisition.
A day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi raised the issue of alleged burning of people in Uttar Pradesh's Bhatta Parasaul, the focal point of farmers stir on land acquisition issue, ashes from a site were on Tuesday lifted and sent to forensic laboratory for examination.
After a discussion which went on for over 90 minutes and amid opposition to some of the proposals by ministers, the Union Cabinet Monday evening passed the draft Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill 2011.
The state now has a new policy, under a new government.
The state government was under a mammoth debt of Rs 2 lakh crore.
Karnataka Home Minister R Ashok, who was in the dock for his alleged role in a land case, can now heave a sigh of relief. On Friday, the Lokayukta police gave him a clean chit. In a report submitted by the police to the Lokayukta court, it is stated that he had no role to play in the case.
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