Rights groups seek return of land taken away in Sandeshkhali

Rights groups seek return of land taken away in Sandeshkhali

A fact-finding report, compiled by four human rights organisations on the basis of field research conducted and information gathered in the villages of Sandeshkhali block. was released at the Press Club, Kolkata on March 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: Debasish Bhaduri A collective of four civil rights organisations on Friday released a fact finding report … Read more

Three Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes families in Uttara Kannada get back their land

Three Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes families in Uttara Kannada get back their land

Members of one of the beneficiary families receiving possession certificate for their land from Deputy Commissioner Gangubai Mankar. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Three families belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, which lost land granted to them because of the actions of their forefathers, have now been restored possession of their land, thanks to … Read more

Kerala Govt. refuses to entertain petitions on Land Assignment Bill forwarded by Governor Arif Mohammed Khan

Kerala Govt. refuses to entertain petitions on Land Assignment Bill forwarded by Governor Arif Mohammed Khan

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan (right) with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan (file). | Photo Credit: S. MAHINSHA The Kerala Government has dismissed the petitions on the Kerala Land Assignment (Amendment) Bill forwarded by Governor Arif Mohammed Khan as “speculative ones” which cannot be entertained. The Kerala Government made its position clear to the Governor in … Read more

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra named in ED chargesheet on 2005-06 land transactions case

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra named in ED chargesheet on 2005-06 land transactions case

FIle photo of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and her husband Robert Vadra. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Purchase of three plots of land in Haryana in 2005-06 by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra from a real estate agent is being probed along with a land deal made by his wife Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the … Read more

Land survey begins for proposed tiger safari park in Kozhikode

Land survey begins for proposed tiger safari park in Kozhikode

Land survey for setting up the proposed tiger safari park has commenced at Muthukad in Chakkittappara panchayat as part of efforts to complete the project at the earliest. The survey will be completed in 15 days with the support of various government departments. At a recent meeting chaired by Forest Minister A.K. Saseendran, Divisional Forest … Read more

Lack of enough govt. land, high rate of private land prevented 3-acre land allotment to Dalits: Harish Rao

Lack of enough govt. land, high rate of private land prevented 3-acre land allotment to Dalits: Harish Rao

BRS leader and Minister T. Harish Rao at an MRPS meeting in Hyderabad on Sunday. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement hyderabad The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government could not implement the promise of 3 acres of land to every Dalit family due to the non-availability of sufficient government land and high rates of private land, … Read more

Survey begins to recover excess land owned by Kerala MLA P.V. Anvar

Survey begins to recover excess land owned by Kerala MLA P.V. Anvar

P.V. Anvar, MLA | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Revenue department in Kerala has started survey measures to recover the excess land possessed by P.V. Anvar, MLA, at Kakkadampoyil in Kozhikode district. The action comes in the wake of a recent order by the Thamarassery Taluk Land Use Board. According to Revenue department sources, the … Read more

Congress will pass Bill guaranteeing protection of land, forests, tribal people’s rights in Mizoram: Jairam Ramesh

Congress will pass Bill guaranteeing protection of land, forests, tribal people’s rights in Mizoram: Jairam Ramesh

Jairam Ramesh. File | Photo Credit: ANI The Congress on October 28 promised that if it forms the government in Mizoram it would pass a new Bill in the very first session of the new Assembly guaranteeing the protection of the land, the forests and the rights of the tribal people of the State. In … Read more

A decade on, Integrated Coaching Terminal on Railways’ prime land in Ernakulam remains a distant dream 

A decade on, Integrated Coaching Terminal on Railways’ prime land in Ernakulam remains a distant dream 

The 110-acre prime land that the Railways own on the Ponnurunni-Kathrikadavu marshalling yard premises remains underutilised. | Photo Credit: H. VIBHU Even as the Railways affirms that efforts will be made to develop major railway stations and underutilised premises, if any, as city centres, stakeholders have expressed concern at over 100 acres of prime railway … Read more

Families that gave land for Shivamogga airport demand jobs

Families that gave land for Shivamogga airport demand jobs

A water salute being offered to the first passenger flight to land at Shivamogga airport on August 31, 2023. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The farmers who gave up their land for Shivamogga airport at Sogane have urged the Karnataka Government to give jobs at the airport to members of their families. Around 400 families … Read more