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Castle Peak trailhead on Donner Summit sold to U.S. Forest Service

Edit Sacramento Bee 02 Apr 2016
The Castle Peak trailhead, a 412-acre portal to Sierra Nevada backcountry just north of Interstate 80, had been in the hands of private owners who had sought to develop it, said Perry Norris executive director of the Truckee Donner Land Trust ... The trust, along with the Tahoe National Forest and the Trust for Public Land, bought the property for $2.1 million from Pendola Enterprises of Grass Valley and sold it to the U.S....

50 structures razed near Sector 81

Edit The Times of India 02 Apr 2016
The Noida Authority on Thursday razed 50 illegal structures built on nearly 31 acres of government land in Sector 81 near Salarpur village. The land is meant for industrial use and officials said it is estimated to be worth Rs 625 crore ... plotting and selling houses on government land....

High Court refuses to stay order against revenue minister Adoor Prakash

Edit Indian Express 02 Apr 2016
THE KERALA High Court Friday declined to stay the quick verification of the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) against Revenue Minister Adoor Prakash in a land deal ... as surplus land, to a developer ... Kerala land deal ... The order to hand over the surplus land to the private developer was issued disregarding reports from various departments....

Land grab bid on Mangar green belt, 10 trees felled

Edit The Times of India 02 Apr 2016
The forest department late on Thursday night caught two persons red-handed in the densely forested parts of Mangar, off the Gurgaon-Faridabad highway, while they were felling trees with the intention of encroaching on land ... The land that was being cleared in Mangar falls under the Punjab Land Preservation Act, 1900, which is one of the few pristine spots left in the Aravalis in Haryana....

Land sharks forge papers to claim NRI's home

Edit The Times of India 02 Apr 2016
A 65-year-old non-resident Indian (NRI) Asif Siddiqui has been making frantic efforts to save his ancestral home in Manzoorpura in old city which is allegedly being eyed by land sharks even as the city police have refused entertain his complaint ... But on March 22, I learnt that some land sharks using forged 'chaturshima' are staking claim over the property....

‘Shifting it not good for city’

Edit Indian Express 02 Apr 2016
An alternative to construct the car shed on a fallow land in Kanjurmarg has been under consideration, but the chief minister did not favour the option. “The land that has been identified is marshy. If we decide to build the car shed on it, it would require reclaiming this land, which itself would increase the input cost by Rs 1,500 crore ... The land is not marshy, as is being portrayed,” he said....

In scrapping the discredited council tax, we can support a shift from taxing income to taxing wealth. (Scottish Green Party)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Apr 2016
Well-designed land and property taxes can help to moderate house prices and increase housing affordability as well as reduce wealth inequality ... Our proposals represent a significant step towards our long-standing policy of a land value tax, as the bill for each property would be split to show the value of the building and the land on which it sits....

Delhi Govt

Edit Indian Express 02 Apr 2016
Failure to do so will lead to cancellation of their lease deed by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and other land-owning agencies, it said ... File compliance reports in 2 weeks or lose land, says Govt 25 per cent EWS quota in all nurseries, playschoolsHC orders playschools to make room for the poor or lose leaseL-G orders 20% EWS ......

Mohali flyover work may start from Apr 15

Edit The Times of India 02 Apr 2016
Compensation has been handed out for the land acquired ... The NHAI has acquired over 50 hectares of land on both sides of the road. The land of a private hospital, government hospital and ......

Man held with gold biscuits worth Rs 45L

Edit The Times of India 02 Apr 2016
According to the officials, an Air Arabia flight landed at Jaipur International Airport in the morning ... On return, he would land at other airports including Hyderabad, Pune and Lucknow....

Native American tribes mobilize against proposed North Dakota oil pipeline

Edit The Guardian 02 Apr 2016
About 200 people rode on horseback to protest against pipeline that encroaches on tribal lands and could pollute Missouri river ... Dozens of tribal members from several Native American nations took to horseback on Friday to protest the proposed construction of an oil pipeline which would cross the Missouri river just yards from tribal lands in North Dakota ... “I really love my land, and if that pipeline breaks everything is gone.”....

Parliamentary panel questions role of coordination committee, says it’s failing in its functions

Edit Indian Express 02 Apr 2016
Land for Tata Camelot is a controlled area ... The Punjab government had sanctioned 50 acres of land right behind the Capital Complex, that is, zero kilometre from the periphery of Chandigarh ... The committee observed that under dubious circumstances, the land of the society spread over 52 acres was transferred/sold to the Tata Housing Camelot Company....

Reckoner Rates hike to help Kolhapur Municipal Corporation boost revenue

Edit The Times of India 02 Apr 2016
Kolhapur ... The RR rates are the market value of the land and construction, based on which several taxes are calculated ... The mode of paid up FSI generates over 60% of the town planning department's revenue ... The taxes are directly connected to the market rates of lands. Hike in land value increases the revenue in a similar proportion ... The property tax rates too are linked with the market value of the construction done on the land ... ....
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