Landowner

A group of landowners say a Silicon Valley-backed company trying to build a sustainable city northeast of San Francisco used unfair and "strong-armed" tactics to force farmers to sell their land, including pitting family members against each other.

The Crown Estate is one of the UK's largest landowners, and even though the portfolio is owned by the monarch, it is not private property.

At a time when land disputes are common among people, monkeys in a village in Maharashtra's Osmanabad district have been bestowed the rare honour of having 32 acres of land registered in their name.

Dozens of landowners are petitioning against the government's plan to build a megacity from scratch on the banks of the Ravi river, a once-thriving waterway that's been depleted by pollution and dwindling water levels.

MetalCore players will have the opportunity to earn in-game rewards and become virtual landowners, through which they’ll be able to mine resources and generate tax revenue.

A Belgian landowner risked triggering an international incident by moving an old stone boundary marker that has denoted his country's border with France since the 1820 Treaty of Kortrijk.

With many educational institutions turned into institutional quarantine centres or isolation facilities amid COVID-19 crisis, the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry is planning to approach temples, big landowners and other institutions to begin classes post the lockdown.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is considering three options for a relief package to help farmers suffering because of low crop prices at a cost of as much as Rs 3 lakh crore, according to three government sources. The possibilities are a direct payment to all landowning farmers, compensation for those who sold produce below government prices, and a l...

A family's tireless wait of 39 years for a Delhi Development Authority (DDA) flat seems to be ending soon, with the Delhi High Court directing the landowning agency to hand over its possession to the allottee while pulling it up for its "non-caring attitude".

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi today came up with fresh allegations of irregular land transaction against RJD president Lalu Prasad's family and claimed that the former chief minister was turning out to be the "biggest zamindar" (landowner) in the state.

By Paola Totaro About a quarter of homeowners in India, and nearly one in five rural landowners, fear losing their property, in most cases because they do not have documents to prove ownership, according to a new poll. The survey, launched by US polling firm Gallup in London on Tuesday, set out to test how secure people feel about their homes and l...

Police in Pakistan have arrested a locally powerful landowner and two accomplices for allegedly chopping off the hands of a 17-year-old farmworker whose family had failed to repay a loan of 15,000 rupees ($150).

According to a confidential government paper seen by Reuters, several states want to do away with obtaining landowners' consent altogether in some cases and to cut through red tape which they say holds up development.

Police have filed a criminal case against the owner of the farmland, where a four-year old girl fell into a borewell and died at Nagathana village near Bijapur, and five others, in connection with the incident.

Up today in Parliament is the ruling Congress' next big populist gambit - the land acquisition Bill. The bill aims to supercede a century-old law and compensate farmers and other landowners up to four times the market value when their land is acquired for industrial development.

A group of landowners say a Silicon Valley-backed company trying to build a sustainable city northeast of San Francisco used unfair and "strong-armed" tactics to force farmers to sell their land, including pitting family members against each other.

The Crown Estate is one of the UK's largest landowners, and even though the portfolio is owned by the monarch, it is not private property.

At a time when land disputes are common among people, monkeys in a village in Maharashtra's Osmanabad district have been bestowed the rare honour of having 32 acres of land registered in their name.

Dozens of landowners are petitioning against the government's plan to build a megacity from scratch on the banks of the Ravi river, a once-thriving waterway that's been depleted by pollution and dwindling water levels.

MetalCore players will have the opportunity to earn in-game rewards and become virtual landowners, through which they’ll be able to mine resources and generate tax revenue.

A Belgian landowner risked triggering an international incident by moving an old stone boundary marker that has denoted his country's border with France since the 1820 Treaty of Kortrijk.

With many educational institutions turned into institutional quarantine centres or isolation facilities amid COVID-19 crisis, the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry is planning to approach temples, big landowners and other institutions to begin classes post the lockdown.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is considering three options for a relief package to help farmers suffering because of low crop prices at a cost of as much as Rs 3 lakh crore, according to three government sources. The possibilities are a direct payment to all landowning farmers, compensation for those who sold produce below government prices, and a l...

A family's tireless wait of 39 years for a Delhi Development Authority (DDA) flat seems to be ending soon, with the Delhi High Court directing the landowning agency to hand over its possession to the allottee while pulling it up for its "non-caring attitude".

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi today came up with fresh allegations of irregular land transaction against RJD president Lalu Prasad's family and claimed that the former chief minister was turning out to be the "biggest zamindar" (landowner) in the state.

By Paola Totaro About a quarter of homeowners in India, and nearly one in five rural landowners, fear losing their property, in most cases because they do not have documents to prove ownership, according to a new poll. The survey, launched by US polling firm Gallup in London on Tuesday, set out to test how secure people feel about their homes and l...

Police in Pakistan have arrested a locally powerful landowner and two accomplices for allegedly chopping off the hands of a 17-year-old farmworker whose family had failed to repay a loan of 15,000 rupees ($150).

According to a confidential government paper seen by Reuters, several states want to do away with obtaining landowners' consent altogether in some cases and to cut through red tape which they say holds up development.

Police have filed a criminal case against the owner of the farmland, where a four-year old girl fell into a borewell and died at Nagathana village near Bijapur, and five others, in connection with the incident.

Up today in Parliament is the ruling Congress' next big populist gambit - the land acquisition Bill. The bill aims to supercede a century-old law and compensate farmers and other landowners up to four times the market value when their land is acquired for industrial development.