-The Business Standard It will make the coercive powers of the land acquisition law irrelevant, though including it in the central Bill would be unconstitutional The proposal to amend the central Land Acquisition Bill to provide for leasing of land rather than acquiring it is just not constitutionally feasible. Land is a state subject and the Centre cannot legislate on leasing at all. But as an idea it is great and should...
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Chit fund: TMC questions role of Chidambaram's wife in Saradha group
-PTI On the back foot over the chit fund scam in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress on Thursday raised questions over the role of a senior Chennai-based lawyer who happens to be wife of the Union finance minister. Sudipta Sen, chairman of the scandal-ridden Saradha group, who was arrested two days ago, has said in a purported letter to CBI that politicians, journalists and lawyers had blackmailed him and taken money assuring him...
More »Government abused powers in coal block allotments, House panel says
-The Times of India Parliament's standing committee on Coal and Steel has indicted the government for "totally abusing its powers" in allotting coal mines between 1993 and 2010 through the "most non-transparent procedure" to "few fortunate ones for their own benefit". "The government cannot give largesse on its arbitrary discretion or its sweet will," the committee, under the chairmanship of Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee, said in its latest report tabled in...
More »I was used, blackmailed by Trinamool MPs: Saradha Group CMD to CBI -Madhuparna Das
-The Indian Express Kolkata: Saradha Group CMD Sudipta Sen has sent an 18-page letter to the CBI containing names of several key politicians, officials and legal experts who allegedly milked the company for money. The letter, which reached the CBI in Delhi as Sen remained at large, was forwarded by the agency to its office in Kolkata, and it was subsequently referred to the Bidhannagar police commissionerate. Bidhannagar police commissioner Rajeev Kumar received...
More »3 lakh tribals to get land: CM
-New Indian Express BhuBaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday said nearly three lakh landless tribal families in the State would get land by the end of the 12th Plan period. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday said nearly three lakh landless tribal families in the State would get land by the end of the 12th Plan period. Launching an ambitious plan that envisages conferring land titles on every tribal household in the...
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