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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...
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Rubber growers and traders of Kerala are up in arms against the Union Government’s decision to slash the import duty of natural rubber to 7.5 per cent from 20 per cent. Economists, farmers and traders feel that Central decision would cause the biggest agricultural crisis of recent times. The steep cut in the import duty is sure to push the farmers and traders of Kerala, which accounts for more than 90...
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