Lakshadweep authorities argued that enclosing or reclaiming foreshore reef flats, beaches, or lagoon edges does not amount to acquisition since the land is government-owned. (ANI Photo)(X) On 18 ...

NEW DELHI: A Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development and Panchayati Raj has urged the strict implementation of the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLARR) ...

Over 1,000 objections have been filed to the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) by farmers affected by the Peripheral Ring Road (PRR), now renamed the Bengaluru Business Corridor (BBC). Farmers ...

Since the proclamation of Greater Lebanon in 1920, the French Mandate sought to mold the country into a “buffer zone,” not a truly free homeland. This design, however, collided with a society ...

Last November, a collection of business, academic and political luminaries made a pilgrimage to a wood-paneled conference room at Harvard University. They were there to pay tribute to Lawrence Summers ...

On a trip to Sweden this past summer, I tried to pop into the flagship atelier of Saman Amel, a Stockholm-based tailoring house founded in 2015. It was booked solid. Though the decade-old operation ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Blytheville, Arkansas man is facing a felony charge of endangering the welfare of a child after police say he abandoned his baby outside a Jonesboro home. Jonesboro Police said the ...

Peter Cannon was born on April 20, 1932 in Chatham, England. He died of natural causes on October 16, 2025 in Louisville, Colorado. He was 93. Peter grew up in a Royal Navy family and lived in various ...

(opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) Copy Across Lebanon, older people’s needs and voices are being put at the centre of community recovery ...

The principle of fairness, which Parliament promised in 2013, is undermined when two families losing land for similar projects receive different net amounts. Two High Courts have taken sharply ...

BENGALURU: As the Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA) moves ahead with the final phase of the Peripheral Ring Road, rebranded as Bengaluru Business Corridor (BBC), and initiates land acquisition, ...

Few companies have translated the global sustainability agenda into concrete, measurable outcomes as effectively as Schneider Electric. Under the leadership of Amel Chadli, president of the Gulf ...