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Land acquisition Bill listed for winter session

Even as railway minister Mamata Banerjee opposes government’s role in acquiring land for private companies , the contentious land acquisition (amendment) Bill figures in the list of business for the winter session of Parliament beginning next week. The Bill has been hanging fire in the wake of opposition from the Trinamool Congress leader, who recently skipped a meeting convened by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee to evolve a consensus within the ruling...

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Power is free again for farmers in Punjab

The Punjab Cabinet on Wednesday rolled back its decision on payment of power bills by farmers and restored the facility of free electricity for their agricultural tubewells with immediate effect. The state government had, earlier this year, introduced a system under which farmers were made to pay a part of the power bills which were to be reimbursed to them as “productivity bonus”. The proposal to roll back the decision was not...

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Posco violated forest rights act, confirms panel

An environment ministry committee has confirmed that the Forest Rights Act was violated during acquisition of land for South Korean steelmaker Posco's project in Orissa. The Forest Advisory Committee, which in December 2009 had given approval for the $12 billion project, did not recommend scrapping the approval given. In August 2010, the ministry had stopped the acquisition work on the basis of a report submitted by the NC Saxena Committee, constituted to...

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More funding for Ganga clean-up

To maintain projects to clean the river and restore its environmental health Centre to consider Uttarakhand's demand for free power in compensation for scrapped projects Conservation Action Plan approved for Gangetic dolphin, the national aquatic animal States through which the Ganga flows will soon be given additional funding to operate and maintain projects to clean the river and restore its environmental health. However, States lobbied for more aid and free power to those...

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Centre drafting new law to guarantee food security: Sonia Gandhi

The Central Government is drafting a new law that will guarantee food security to a majority of the population, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said on Tuesday. Addressing party delegates attending a daylong session of the All-India Congress Committee (AICC) at the Talkatora Stadium here, Gandhi said that a new food security law would create a more efficient and effective public distribution system. "All this will, hopefully ensure an end to malnutrition, which...

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