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Property rights

  • Explained: How a new Supreme Court ruling curtails government’s rights to acquire private property

    Explained: How a new Supreme Court ruling curtails government’s rights to acquire private property

    Vineet Bhalla
    · Nov 08, 2024 · 07:00 pm
  • Not all private property can be redistributed by government for common good, says Supreme Court

    Not all private property can be redistributed by government for common good, says Supreme Court

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 05, 2024 · 03:30 pm
  • Eco India, Episode 102: Communities securing property rights is an exercise in environmental justice

    Eco India, Episode 102: Communities securing property rights is an exercise in environmental justice

    Scroll Staff
    · Mar 22, 2021 · 10:00 am
  • Real-estate developers are wary of investing in J&K: ‘Businesses cannot grow if there are curfews’

    Real-estate developers are wary of investing in J&K: ‘Businesses cannot grow if there are curfews’

    Vijayta Lalwani
    · Sep 11, 2019 · 09:00 am
  • In battles over land rights, activists are being branded as criminals, says UN report

    In battles over land rights, activists are being branded as criminals, says UN report

    Karla Mendes, Thomson Reuters Foundation News
    · Aug 29, 2018 · 01:30 pm
  • Kodak’s cryptocurrency project could be the start of a new kind of intellectual property

    Kodak’s cryptocurrency project could be the start of a new kind of intellectual property

    Chris Berg, The Conversation Jason Potts, The Conversation Sinclair Davidson, The Conversation
    · Jan 15, 2018 · 09:30 pm
  • Why one in four Indians are worried about losing their homes

    Why one in four Indians are worried about losing their homes

    Maria Thomas, qz.com
    · Dec 09, 2016 · 08:30 pm
  • Son has no legal right to live in house owned by parents, can stay ‘at their mercy’, says court

    Son has no legal right to live in house owned by parents, can stay ‘at their mercy’, says court

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 29, 2016 · 05:43 pm