Legal
The Centre has called a meeting with states on Friday to discuss possible changes to be made to the land acquisition law. This has given congress an opportunity to accuse BJP for changing sides as within nine months of backing the law in Parliament. Any bid to amend the law is likely to result in claims [...] Continue Reading »
It is a welcome change in congress ruled Assam which has relaxed the norms allowing transfer and non-agricultural activity in agricultural land where no farming activity is taking place. This will reduce red-tapism and allow industries to set shop in locations where no farming happens even though the land falls under agricultural land. According to [...] Continue Reading »
A total of Rupees 500 crore has been preserved by the Hindustan Construction Company so that they can settle all matters with their colleagues. This includes all governmental authorities. Last year, Ajit Gulabchand, who happens to be the chairman of Hindustan Construction Company stated that large chunks of money hasn’t been paid by this company [...] Continue Reading »
There are measures taken to reduce the land degradation and the environment and forest minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday said that India would be ‘land degradation neutral’ by the year 2030. This policy declaration aims to protect the land to combat the challenge of food security. In order to protect the nature and give a [...] Continue Reading »
The Land Acquisition Land of 1894 which was enacted by the British government has survived even after independence. The Act gave the government the right to possess land from people who privately own it in order to use it for some important purpose that would serve the public. The transactions however will take place at [...] Continue Reading »
Thiess India (Mining and Construction leader to the Indian Mining Industry) is struggling since the last few weeks as its chairman and managing director, Raman Srikanth, was arrested on charges of cheating and criminal breach of trust. The company denies these charges. On May 8, the Indian subsidiary of $24.4-billion Australian infrastructure, mining and real [...] Continue Reading »
The real estate firm, Jaypee Infratech went to the Supreme Court asking for the Noida Authority to pass the completion certificates for all its projects that are within a 10 km radius from the Okhla bird sanctuary. The buyers of around 4,000 flats that come under this area are waiting for the handover. But without [...] Continue Reading »
In a recent report, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has revealed that civic authorities may demolish parts for a new 21-stoery residential tower in Parel, Mumbai. The demolition of parts of the tower – built by realty developer Isa Enterprises – is seemingly imminent because of certain violations in construction. According to the demolition-related details [...] Continue Reading »
According to recent news, there is a huge possibility that the rates of land possession may increase soon for all the farmers of Delhi. This will increase threefold- from Rupees 56 lakhs an acre to Rupees 1.5 crore an acre. It could also go up to 3 crore. This will occur only if the revenue [...] Continue Reading »
There might be some good news for Subrata Roy and the Sahara group tomorrow when the SC verdict will be pronounced. The Supreme Court (SC) is speculating the situation and considering the plea of jailed Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy who is seeking a modification of an earlier order. The SC had asked him to [...] Continue Reading »
