New Delhi: Popular perception of the state of economy, as recorded by the CNN-IBN-CNBC-TV18 State of the Nation Poll in association with Forbes India conducted by the CSDS, confront the "aam admi" government with many reasons to worry. Unlike corruption, the message is not loud here. Years of survey research have demonstrated that Indians tend to be positive and optimistic when it comes to their economic conditions. One needs to...
07:03 PM, Aug 10, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled government has to strictly comply with the twin conditions of acquiring land for "public purpose" and adequately fulfilling the "compensation" claim to the oustees. "Public purpose is a pre-condition for deprivation of a person from his property under Article 300A and the right to claim compensation is also inbuilt in that Article and when a person is deprived of his property, the...
10:48 PM, Aug 09, 2011
Pune: Four people, including a woman, have reportedly been killed in police firing on farmers protesting over the Pawna Lake issue in Pune as the protests turned ugly on Tuesday. The police resorted to firing when protesters took to stone pelting. Farmers have blocked the Pune Expressway and traffic movement has stopped completely. The protestors have been agitating against their land being acquired for the project that would provide more...
03:26 PM, Aug 09, 2011
New Delhi: The compensation amount to agitating farmers of the Patwari Village has been increased by almost 100 per cent and now the construction of over 20,000 dream homes will resume. But the question is whether this could be a possible settlement plan for other disputes too. The Mayawati Administration is now strategising to end the dispute between the farmers and Greater Noida Authority in other villages as well. Sources...
01:00 PM, Aug 07, 2011
New Delhi: Amid controversy over the acquisition of land in a Gurgaon village for the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust, the Haryana government has been dragged to the Supreme Court for acquiring over 2,700 acre of fertile land in Rohtak district for developing a township. While the state government is defending the acquisition of over 850 acres which also covers land for the Trust at Ullahawas village in Punjab and Haryana...
09:40 AM, Aug 07, 2011
New Delhi: The acquisition of land in Haryana for the Rajiv Gandhi foundation has been adding to the Congress' woes. CNN-IBN has now accessed documents to show that the land use law was deliberately changed to help the foundation. On October 20, 2010 the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust applied for Change of Land Use (CLU) to utilize village common land to set up an eye hospital. On December 1, 2010,...
07:54 AM, Aug 05, 2011
New York: Social networking giant Facebook has bought a digital publishing company Push Pop Press that develops technology to help make interactive books optimised for iPad and other Apple devices. "We're thrilled to confirm that we've acquired Push Pop Press, a startup whose groundbreaking software changes the way people publish and consume digital content," Xinhua quoted Facebook as saying in a statement. Push Pop Press was co-founded by Mike Matas...
02:00 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha was adjourned on Wednesday over the acquisition of land for the Rajiv Gandhi trust in Gurgaon. The villagers of Ullawas village in Gurgaon have rejected the Hooda government's overtures. The villagers of Ullawas village are holding a Kisan panchayat on Wednesday to protest against the Haryana government's preferential treatment to the Gandhis. They have decided to go to court to get their land back, having...
01:03 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: Reacting to the CNN-IBN expose on Haryana land deals favouring the Rajiv Gandhi Trust, the Congress has said that no rules were bent and that land was only given on lease. Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, "The land was leased to the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust for eyecare. The trust does not own the land." Singhvi claimed, "Not a single rule has been bent, the Gram Panchayat...
07:50 AM, Aug 03, 2011
Chandigarh: The Haryana government has decided to relook at acquisition of land for the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust after CNN-IBN on Monday reported how the trust was given land breaking rules and regulations. In all, 65 petitions in Punjab and Haryana High Court have now claimed the "Gandhis as trustees" tag swung the deal. On Tuesday the Haryana government offered to reconsider the cases of the 65 petitioners that alleged...
11:27 PM, Aug 02, 2011
New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday downplayed the political controversy surrounding the land allotment to the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust in Haryana in wake of the Punjab and Haryana High Court court summoning all records related to it. "This matter is between the Haryana government and the High Court. The state government should accept whatever decision the court takes. This issue (of land acquisition) does not concern one trust but thousands...
11:17 PM, Aug 02, 2011
New Delhi: The Haryana government will reconsider the acquisition of over 850 acres of land in Gurgaon that the 'Gandhis as trustees' tag swung the deal. CNN-IBN had reported on Monday how 8 acres of land was given by the Haryana government to the Rajiv Gandhi trust to set up a charitable hospital. A bunch of 65 petitions was filed by landowners, contending that the 'Gandhis as trustees' tag swung...
12:21 PM, Aug 02, 2011
San Francisco: Google Inc has bought The Dealmap, expanding further into a potentially lucrative daily deals market now dominated by the likes of Groupon and LivingSocial. Terms of the acquisition weren't disclosed. Google, which has made initial forays into e-commerce through Google Offers as well as mobile payments, said it was "impressed with what The Dealmap team has accomplished." "Google provides the ideal platform to help us accelerate our growth...
08:59 AM, Aug 02, 2011
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned as the BSP raised slogans demanding a legislation on land acquisition bill acceptable to farmers. ...
12:24 PM, Aug 01, 2011
New Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh is in Kolkata getting Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress on board on the draft land acquisition bill. Jairam reached Kolkata 24 hours after the draft land acquisition bill was made public. Getting Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool - the Congress' key ally - on board on the bill seems to be a top priority. But a day after she called the draft bill positive, Mamata has...
09:00 AM, Aug 01, 2011
Kolkata: The latest draft of the land acquisition bill will be modified as there was need for more clarity on some issues, union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said in Kolkata on Sunday. "This bill is better. But there are specific points we need to clarify," Ramesh said after his parleys with Debabrata Bandopadhyay, a former bureaucrat considered West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's adviser on...
07:52 AM, Aug 01, 2011
Kolkata: Union Rural Development minister Jairam Ramesh, who met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday, said she was apparently happy with the approach to the new land acquisition bill. Talking to reporters after meeting the chief minister, Ramesh said "broadly she appears to be happy with the approach to the bill, particularly with R and R (relief and rehabilitation) package contained in it." The state government would take...
10:57 PM, Jul 30, 2011
Ankur Kohli turns citizen journalist to fight against greater Noida land acquisition. ...
08:33 PM, Jul 30, 2011
On this episode of Citizen Journalist, citizens fight over Noida land acquisition. ...
08:17 PM, Jul 30, 2011
Noida: Farmers in Noida on Saturday agreed to suspend their agitation against land acquisition for three months after claiming that authorities have accepted their demands, including giving them developed plot. After talks with Noida authorities, the farmers, on their part, assured that building development activities would not be stopped, said Noida Chairman and CEO Balwinder Kumar. Emerging from a 2-hour meeting with the Noida Chairman and UP Minister Jaiveer Singh...
08:02 PM, Jul 30, 2011
