September 01, 2015 12:00 am
Modi government does well not to repromulgate the land ordinance. Now it must focus on other, more urgent, reforms.
August 31, 2015 4:16 pm
Jaitley said rather than allowing the parliamentary stalemate to carry on, the Centre followed an alternative route which will give flexibility to states to change land acquisition laws as per their requirement.
May 31, 2015 6:01 pm
The ordinance will now have to be laid before both Houses of Parliament and shall cease to operate at the expiration of six weeks from the date of reassembly if it is not converted into law.
May 31, 2015 2:02 am
NDA government on Saturday decided to re-promulgate the Land Ordinance, saying it is necessary for maintaining continuity and providing a framework to compensate people whose land is acquired.
May 31, 2015 2:07 am
The reaction of Rahul Gandhi came hours after the Union Cabinet at a meeting decided to recommend repromulgation of the controversial ordinance for the third time.
May 30, 2015 12:58 pm
Despite the ordinance being passed in Lok Sabha in December, the government did not take it to Rajya Sabha as it lacked numbers there
May 14, 2015 1:27 am
As every ordinance has to be replaced by an Act, the government introduced a fresh bill in the Lok Sabha two days back.
April 19, 2015 10:19 am
Taking the battle on the land bill issue to social media, Congress today launched a "Zameen Wapsi" website.
April 10, 2015 1:50 pm
The farmers' organisations challenged the re-promulgated land ordinance, terming it "unconstitutional".
April 10, 2015 1:13 pm
The petition has been filed by Delhi Grameen Samaj, Bharatiya Kisan Union and two other farmers’ groups.
March 16, 2015 6:36 pm
Terming the BJP-led Central government 'anti-farmer', Congress on Monday staged a protest at Jantan Mantar against the Land Acquisition bill.
February 23, 2015 5:48 pm
Anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare on the inaugural day of his campaign against the Government's land acquisition act in New Delhi.