News:  The Centre is likely to work out the contours of the reworked land acquisition bill by next week amid indications that it may be purged of all the politically unpopular provisions. Government may allow states to draft their own acquisition laws with the frame of reference being the central ...

News: Maharashtra CM has declared that the first draft of the Bill will be ready in a month’s time and will be available for suggestions and objections. Opinion of senior lawyers would be taken to make the proposed law foolproof. The special Act will make attack on journalists a non-bailable and cognisable offence. Source: ...

News: India wants to manufacture shipping containers instead of relying on imports as part of a plan aimed at promoting the ‘Make in India’ campaign. India will appoint consultants to conduct a study into the capacity available within the country to take up container manufacturing. It will also approach foreign ...