An FIR against Robert Vadra, former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and two companies – DLF and Onkareshwar Properties – has been registered at the Kherki Daula police station in Gurugram, Manesar, deputy … READ FULL STORY
A division bench of the Madras High Court, comprising justices TS Sivagnanam and V Bhavani Subbaroyan, on August 21, 2018, passed an interim order on a batch of petitions opposing the Rs 10,000-crore, proposed … READ FULL STORY
Pressure on Kerala’s limited land resources, due to the growing population, denudation of the Western Ghats and climate change, could be the reasons behind the floods that have ravaged the state, eminent scientist, K … READ FULL STORY
The chairman of Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) Prabhat Kumar, said that officials met over 100 farmers of six villages in Noida, on August 15, 2018 and tried to clear their doubts regarding … READ FULL STORY
A Bombay High Court bench of justices SC Dharmadhikari and Bharati Dangre, on August 16, 2018, dismissed a plea by Mafatlal Industries, which claimed that it was the rightful leaseholder of a plot of … READ FULL STORY
Under a proposal, cleared by the Maharashtra cabinet on August 7, 2018, the MHADA (Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority) will form joint ventures with interested private landowners, to execute the centre’s flagship scheme, … READ FULL STORY
Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman has given the go-ahead to the Karnataka government for using defence land for infrastructure projects in Bengaluru, with the condition that the city’s civic body, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike … READ FULL STORY
The Environment Ministry, on August 2, 2018, informed the Madras High Court that the land acquisition process for the Chennai-Salem Greenfield corridor, was being done completely in accordance with law and the project cannot … READ FULL STORY
The Congress, on August 1, 2018, demanded a probe against the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner, after the civic body lost the court case of a plot worth Rs 500 crores in a suburb. … READ FULL STORY
In different cases of alleged land grab in Chennai, the police have retrieved properties worth Rs 12 crores and arrested eight people. This included retrieval of a 12,000-sq-ft property at nearby Sholinganallur, where the … READ FULL STORY
The National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRCL), on July 31, 2018, informed the Bombay High Court that it has, prima facie, found an alternate land proposed by the Godrej Group suitable for acquisition, for … READ FULL STORY
The Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis-led Urban Development Department, helped a private builder to ‘illegally acquire’ 24 acres of notified land at Kharghar, in Navi Mumbai, in the name of compensating a group of … READ FULL STORY
The Maharashtra government has said that it would add an additional clause to the Maharashtra Municipal Corporation Act’s existing clause 79(d), for not allowing civic land to be given away at concessional rates. The … READ FULL STORY
