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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicLand Dispute

Topic: Land Dispute

Indian states taking ownership of land records digitisation, up to govt to expand it now: Study

The government of India can profitably look at the N-LRSI experience as an instrument to secure improvement in the domain of land records and services.

MP leads in land record digitisation for second year in a row, Bihar shows most improvement

NCAER’s Land Records and Services Index 2020-21 shows MP, West Bengal, Odisha, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu as the top five states in land digitisation efforts.

Armenia-backed forces attack military airport in Azerbaijan’s second-largest city

The breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh said it attacked the military airport in Ganca in retaliation for Azerbaijan’s bombing in its largest city.

Armenian forces hit 2 Azerbaijan choppers as fierce fighting erupts over disputed land

The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh has flared repeatedly since Armenians took control of the territory from Azerbaijan in a war after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

Story of UP’s Sonbhadra which saw a massacre in July: Distance, poverty & a resource curse

ThePrint spent time to bring you this deep-dive into such an out-of-sight, out-of-mind-zone.

Sonbhadra massacre: Priyanka Gandhi detained on her way to meet victims of UP shootout

At least 10 people were killed Thursday in a shootout that ensued after a row over a land dispute in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh.

Ayodhya mediation unlikely to make any headway, says litigant, moves Supreme Court

Gopal Singh Visharad, first litigant in Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute case, says suggestions made during mediations political in nature.

India has to attack causes of land litigation. Modi’s Ease of Doing Business depends on it

If policies are based on insufficient evidence, this may lead to wastage of India’s already low state capacity.

Indian courts clogged with land disputes because laws keep conflicting each other

Impartial and efficient management of land is necessary not just for India’s economic development, but also for its political and social stability.

Time for India to do away with agricultural land ceiling laws

1960s-era provisions that allow a state to take over 66 per cent of farmers’ land for a project should not have any place in India’s rule book today.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘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.