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
Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor: people oppose Manesar-Bawal segment of project at public hearing
Deputy Commissioner of Rewari district orders probe after people object to high pollution from existing Daruhera industrial estate, which is …