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With slowing growth, people are now questioning the long-term Indian story

-The New York Times India's coalition government just celebrated the third anniversary of its tenure with a self-congratulatory banquet that could not have been more poorly timed: India's currency, the rupee, is falling; investment is down; inflation is rising; and deficits are eating away at government coffers. While short-term growth has slowed but not ground to a halt, India's problems have dampened hopes that it, along with China and other non-Western economies,...

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Owner's nightmare, realtor's fantasy-A Srivathsan

By not resolving the definition of ‘public purpose,' the Land Acquisition Bill keeps the door open for misuse It has taken more than 110 years for the government to draft a new Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill. But despite mounting evidence of widespread misuse of government authority in taking over farm land and the increasing protests against the legal ambiguity that abets such exploitative practices, the revised legislation remains dubiously...

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Land and caste-Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta

Jatav residents of Ramgarh in U.P. resist attempts by members of a powerful community to grab their land by violent means. IN what could be considered one of the worst incidents of vendetta against Dalits in the National Capital Region (NCR), members of the Dalit Jatav community were beaten up brutally by some members of the dominant Gujjar community in Ramgarh village in the Greater Noida area of Uttar Pradesh...

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Laundering case against former CM

-The Telegraph Ashok Chavan, who had to quit as Maharashtra chief minister after being named in the Adarsh housing scam, faces money-laundering charges in the same case. The Enforcement Directorate has registered an enforcement case information report (ECIR) against Chavan and 13 others, stating that prima facie an offence could be constituted under Section 3 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The ECIR stated that the accused persons, who had obtained clearance...

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Land row stalls IIM construction-Santosh K Kiro

Nagri (Ranchi), April 25: A piece of land is valued either Rs 1.55 lakh or Rs 340.5 crore. Take your pick. If you recover from this shock, you can proceed to figure out who should get in part or full 227.71 acres at Nagri, 15km from Ranchi. Construction of IIM-Ranchi and National University for Study and Research in Law (NUSRL) campuses has halted after villagers refused to budge from the acres,...

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