Bengaluru, June 12 (IANS) Strongly condemning the Congress government for issuing the final notification for land acquisition for the Bidadi township project despite intense opposition from farmers, Union Minister and Karnataka JD(S) President H.D. Kumaraswamy on Friday announced that a legal battle would be launched against what he termed an anti-farmer move.He declared that he would fight on behalf of the farmers who stand to lose their land.The Bidadi township row centres on the Karnataka gov…
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New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) The Delhi government on Sunday carried out a major demolition drive in the Haiderpur village area of Shalimar Bagh to implement a Supreme Court decision against unauthorised constructions on public Right of Way. District Magistrate (DM) of Central-North District S.S. Parihar said that the action was being carried out in compliance with court orders.In the joint survey conducted on January 10, 2026, it was found that a total of 143 unauthorised permanent (pucca) construct…
Bhopal, April 24 (IANS) Chief Minister Mohan Yadav announced on Friday that Madhya Pradesh farmers will get enough power during the day hours and has secured approval from the central government to raise its wheat procurement target from 78 lakh metric tonnes to 100 lakh metric tonnes this season, describing the move as a tribute to the hard work of farmers. He emphasised that slot bookings for selling wheat at the Minimum Support Price (MSP) have now been fully opened for all farmers, both smal…
Mumbai, March 24 (IANS) The Maharashtra Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code (Second Amendment) Bill 2026, which delegates powers to district collectors and divisional commissioners to regularise minor breaches of conditions, ensuring that 90 per cent of cases are resolved locally. Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, who tabled the bill, said the process of regularising breaches of conditions (shartabhang) in government land transactions will now bec…
Bengaluru, March 12 (IANS) Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Thursday said that BJP leaders have not raised their voice over the issue of the Central government issuing a notification for the Krishna Upper Stage Project, even as the Andhra Pradesh government has objected to the land acquisition and compensation process related to the project. Speaking in the Karnataka Legislative Council during a discussion held under Rule 330, Shivakumar said he, along with Ministers H.K. Patil and M….
Lucknow, Feb 3 (IANS) Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday criticised the Centre over the India-US trade deal, alleging that opening India’s agricultural market to American farm produce and food grains amounts to a betrayal of farmers.Yadav claimed that nearly 70 per cent of the country’s population depends on agriculture and questioned whether the BJP-led government was deliberately weakening India’s self-reliant farming system under foreign pressure.In a post on X, the SP …
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) The name of the company involved in excavation work at the Deocha-Pachami coal mining project in West Bengal has figured in the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) chargesheet in connection with the sand smuggling case.According to sources, the ED has mentioned the name of Pachami Basalt Mining Limited in the charge sheet. The owner of GD Mining, Arun Sharaf, who was arrested in the sand smuggling case, had allegedly invested money generated from sand smuggling into this company…
Ranchi, Dec 23 (IANS) The path for restoring traditional self-governance in Jharkhand’s scheduled areas has been cleared. The state cabinet on Tuesday approved the rules for the implementation of the Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act, 1996.The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Hemant Soren, ending a long delay in operationalising the central law in the state.With the approval of the rules, the effective implementation of the PESA Act — pending i…