BSP MLA Raju Pal, who was a bitter rival of Atiq Ahmed, was killed in 2005. Ahmed, who is lodged in a jail in Ahmedabad, has allegedly sent five to six men to kill Unmesh Pal.
The drive was carried out by the Delhi Development Authority amid police security on Friday, triggering protest from various local residents and a blame game between the AAP and the BJP.
The Joshimath Bachao Sangharsh Samiti had given the call for the rally to press for demands of permanent rehabilitation and compensation to affected families.
Places of worship cannot encroach on public land and hinder development activities for the larger segment of the public, the Delhi High Court has said while permitting the demolition of portions of a temple and a mosque...
On Tuesday, The Supreme Court said it would hear in May the pleas on which it had last month stayed the Uttarakhand High Court's order for the removal of encroachments from 29 acres of land claimed by the railways in...
Police said some 300 officers and troops entered the Shuafat refugee camp to demolish the home of Uday Tamimi, who Israel said was behind the deadly shooting at a checkpoint in October.
Sisodia has asked the chief secretary to immediately formulate a rehabilitation plan, a government official said.
'The government shifts for development where the brahmins, upper caste, and upper class settle. And in turn, these development projects shift the Adivasis, Dalits, Muslims and poor away from the vicinity of the development.'
Residents of the area dubbed as the Yamuna floodplains have repeatedly been subjected to forced evictions. Many are now disillusioned with politicians and have...
Adequate arrangements have been made at temporary relief centres for the affected people to protect them from cold. Heaters and blowers have been supplied to...
Economic development that threatens the lives and livelihoods of indigenous people cannot be the only model available to us
Eviction and harassment of minority community, who are Muslims of Bengali origin, in Assam continues unabated and unchallenged as the ruling BJP compares its...
Named after one the most iconic figures of Dalit empowerment in Maharashtra, the residents of the slum on Mumbai’s creek live perpetually under the brutal...
Anti-displacement movements, while often impeding governments’ development plans, have rarely impacted the electoral fortunes of the political parties in...
While authorities in Delhi destroy homes of the poor in the name of development and beautification, rights activists claim that in most cases, urban slum...
The fact that they had been living there for decades does not matter to authorities when they bulldoze the homes of hundreds of Adivasis and Dalits, rendering...
In the transit town of Haldwani, about 50,000 people are currently embroiled in a legal tussle with the North Eastern Railways and the state government for...
When it comes to protecting the rights of the poor, the higher judiciary is more punitive than protective
Large-scale evictions are an unpopular yet inadvertent manifestation of how a state can practice demographic control. Such acts are often justified by the...
The authorities halted the razing of Hotel Malari Inn, declared 'unsafe' after locals protests on Tuesday as hotel owner broke down demanding fair compensation.
A team of Union Home Ministry and National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) met Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami and underlined the need for ascertaining...
As more houses and buildings develop cracks in Joshimath, the authorities will begin a demolition drive today to tear down unsafe houses and hotels.
Haldwani's Banbhoolpura railway land has been encroached upon by constructions, according to the Uttarakhand High Court.
Bengaluru: As the authorities came with policemen and firefighters to tear down the building, the husband and wife poured petrol on their bodies and kept two...
Uttar Pradesh: The officials said the makeshift shops on Vikramaditya Marg were illegal and their owners were sent notices several times in the last six months...