KEY TRENDS   • Section 105 of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, which provides for excluding 13 Central legislation, including Land Acquisition (Mines) Act 1885, Atomic Energy Act, 1962, Railway Act 1989, National Highways Act 1956 and Metro Railways (Construction of Works) Act, 1978, from its purview, has been amended for payment of compensation with rigours $ • The amendments have now...

Shiva Solanki, the nephew of influential BJP MP Dinu Solanki, was today arrested in connection with RTI activist Amit Jethwa’s murder while waiting for an early-morning flight to Mumbai. The Ahmedabad crime branch has been on Shiva’s trail ever since an arrested police constable, Bahadur Singh, told sleuths he offered him Rs 15 lakh to have Jethwa killed. Shiva was picked up at Rajkot airport. Shiva is the vice-president of the BJP-ruled...

The city crime branch has found definite leads to a political motive behind the murder of whistleblower and RTI activist Amit Jethava. A top political leader from Saurashtra is being suspected of have paid to kill Jethava through his nephew identified as ‘Pratap' who is close to police constableBahadur Wadher from Kodinar in Junagadh. The police are believed to have brought four more persons for questioning in this case, from...

KEY TRENDS  • The new Cohort-based Migration Metric (CMM) shows that inter-state labor mobility averaged 5-6.5 million people between 2001 and 2011, yielding an inter-state migrant population of about 60 million and an inter-district migration as high as 80 million @* • The first-ever estimates of internal work-related migration using railways data for the period 2011-2016 indicate an annual average flow of close to 9 million migrant people between the states. Both these estimates are significantly greater than the...