CAG blows lid off land grab in Odisha

Central audit report shows how state acquired land forcibly for Posco, Vedanta and other industries

Cotton farmers get back water

Gujarat court stops work by company encroaching water body

How UCIL got people's nod to its lease

Scrap Lavasa township: petition

Pune project does not have environmental clearance from Centre

GMR jumps the gun

Begins constructing power plant in Chhattisgarh, illegally

Narmada authority slammed for shoddy canal work, ordered to compensate farmers for losses

Madhya Pradesh High Court says farmers impacted by incomplete canal works of Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar dams should be compensated according to …

Pre-dawn police crackdown on village at POSCO site

Move marks restart of land acquisition for steel plant; police say they were only protecting farmers who wanted to give land

Coal blocks on offer

Under new policy, Centre offers 17 blocks with total reserve of 8.5 billion tonnes to state-run firms

Fancy wall for Sundarbans

Government starts building massive embankments on the fragile delta using untested technology. Experts say the project benefits contractors, …

Is new land bill up to mark?

Draft land bill proposes higher compensation for land acquisitions, but complaints persist  

Curse of limestone

Farmers from 12 Rajasthan villages refuse to part with fertile land for cement companies

Reliance’s unusual reward

It acquires CDM benefit for its business-as-usual power project in Jharkhand

Jaffna erupts over land acquisition by Sri Lankan government

Move spurs fears that settlers would be brought in to change the demographic profile of region in run up to provincial elections

Land unrest set to increase in India: study

Enforcement and strengthening of laws that protect land rights of tribals and forest dwellers recommended

Haryana village protests nuclear power plant

Official at public hearing tells residents that radiation is human friendly and used for cancer treatment 

Permanent farmer status for Maharashtra farmers who lose land to projects

Till now, the status was granted to farmers and heirs only for ten years from time of land acquisition

Wind is big

India should develop

Land reform in reverse gear in Asian countries, says report

It claims that 6 per cent of farm owners hold two-thirds of agricultural land in the continent, putting livelihoods of millions of small farmers …

People's power

Farmers in Chhattisgarh's coal-rich Gare village have floated a company to assert their rights over natural resources and resist land acquisiton …

Tussle over land

Land acquisition Bill should take into account demands of those dependant on natural resources

Supreme Court upholds land rights of people affected by infrastructure projects

Slams Maharashtra government for denying compensation to family whose land was taken over for industrial development nearly fifty years ago

Land is more than just that

Village refuses to part with forest

People near Chennai plan protest against industrial estate

Suzlon in trouble