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Thursday, September 4, 2025
TopicLand Acquisition Act

Topic: Land Acquisition Act

Opposing invite to Medha Patkar, BJP MPs force cancellation of LS panel meet on Land Acquisition Act

As Medha Patkar waited outside meeting room, BJP MPs part of parliamentary panel started calling her anti-national and accused her of stalling development, it is learnt.

‘Undue favour, 6,000 families affected’: SC on Odisha govt’s land acquisition for Vedanta university plan

Upholding 2010 Orissa HC order quashing land acquisition, SC said govt move left 6,000 families landless & rapped its disregard for environmental impact as land abuts wildlife sanctuary.

SC says ‘some aspects were left unsaid’ in its March verdict on land compensation

The SC bench was hearing a batch of 600 petitions related to land acquisition that needed to be adjudicated on the basis of legal principles enumerated in a March order.

Let states do it — Modi govt could take same route for land reforms like it did for labour

States that have brought in their own land acquisition laws or propose to do so will be asked to align them with the 6 March SC verdict on compensation clauses.

Why a section of the Land Acquisition Act turned into a big judicial controversy

Two SC benches gave opposite judgments on Section 24(2) in 2014 & 2018. Now, a 5-judge bench picked to settle matter is being challenged. Hearing begins today.

Good sense, bad laws and ugly politics

Between the purist and the pragmatic, there are many divergent views on the Modi Government's latest ordinance blitz. My own is on the practical,...

BJP’s troubled house

It is a touchingly funny spectacle, where every senior leader wants to be loved like Atal Bihari Vajpayee, but is beginning to speak the language of Modi of 2007, if not 2002.

On Camera

Superman Modi to superpower meeting — Indian TV anchors script a Tianjin blockbuster

Tango, triad, trinity, troika — TV news pulled out every T-word from its dictionary and paired it with Tianjin to target Trump on tariffs and trade.

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.