JATGERIA/KOLKATA: Essar Oil on Tuesday agreed to settle the dispute over compensation to Jatgeria landlosers even as the administration responded on a war footing soon after TOI’s report on the land trouble hit news stands. The firm has said it w…

Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress government, which has voiced its opposition to land acquisition by the state government, is going in for the biggest land acquisition drive after coming to power. A decision of the Left Front government in December 2010,…

The Calcutta High Court today gave its nod for implementation of the proposed Anmol City Project and railway factory in Dankuni. Hearing a public interest litigation, a division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Jaymalya Bagchi directed th…

The Calcutta High Court today gave its nod for implementation of the proposed Anmol City Project and railway factory in Dankuni. Hearing a public interest litigation, a division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Jaymalya Bagchi directed th…

KOLKATA: Two persons were shot at – allegedly in front of policemen – after trouble erupted in the port area on Sunday morning over a plot of land that apparently has three claimants. The father-son duo, who received bullet injuries in Sund…

KOLKATA:The Mamata Banerjee government has traced nearly 20,000 acres of surplus and unused land held by sick industrial units. The finding by consulting major PwC, which has been engaged by the new government to create the maiden land database, comes …

KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has lost a hefty Rs 25 crore for ignoring reformative measures – introduction of water tax, switchover to unit area-based property tax assessment and withdrawal of the urban land ceiling – di…

SANTINIKETAN: Those who have visited Visva-Bharati campus hardly two years ago would not be able to identify some of the places because of the sudden appearance of highrise buildings and odd-looking boundary walls. A couple of years ago when the univer…

Singur (WB): The Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government would bring in a new legislation to return land to unwilling farmers in Singur, if the Supreme Court verdict on Singur Land Act went against it, Labour Minister Purnendu Basu said here today. …