Jigna Vora’s journey on ‘Bigg Boss 17’ has finally come to an end after the ‘Shanivaar Ka Vaar’ episode with Salman Khan announcing her eviction from the house.
Despite the protection of marginalised communities written in our Constitution, in India, government after government have failed to ensure that all public authorities and institutions are free of caste-based discrimination....
Several petitions seeking conservation natural resources such as forests, wetlands, and hills from encroachments have been filed, but why people settled in these locations in the first place is a central question that the...
The request for an urgent hearing of the plea was made before a bench comprising Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Narula, who agreed to schedule the hearing for Wednesday.
Year after year, political parties promise the poor that they will provide them with houses during elections. The government also introduced the ‘Jahan Jhuggi Wahan Makaan’ scheme, but when it comes to reality, these are...
A notice of eviction sent to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, who is accused of illegally holding a 13-decimal plot owned by Visva-Bharati, is expected to be responded to by next week.
There are many reasons behind the recent escalation of demolitions in Delhi. The beautification drives due to the upcoming G-20 Summit, the inadequacies of the Delhi Master Plan 2041, Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP)...
On March 10, eight shelter homes housing approximately 5,000 daily wage and migrant workers, were demolished for alleged beautification purposes ahead of G-20.
The opposition Congress slammed the BJP-led government for the eviction drive and said many of the affected families are entitled to have land rights according...
The aggrieved family members of the women allegedly beat up Lekhpal (revenue officer) Ashok Singh, following which the anti-encroachment team members fled the...
Major political parties such as the Congress, the National Conference, and the PDP have voiced their concerns against the drive and demanded an immediate end...
Ongoing evictions and demolition drives in J&K are a 'gross violation' of human rights, says Amnesty International, asking UK’s construction giant JCB to...
Named after one of the most iconic figures of Dalit empowerment in Maharashtra, the residents of the slum on Mumbai’s creek live perpetually under the brutal...
'The government shifts for development where the brahmins, upper caste, and upper class settle. And in turn, these development projects shift the Adivasis,...
The Bhakra dam, hailed as one of ‘temples of modern India’, wreaked unspoken havoc on the lives of villagers across districts of Himachal Pradesh who had...
Residents of the area dubbed as the Yamuna floodplains have repeatedly been subjected to forced evictions. Many are now disillusioned with politicians and have...
At least 280 slum cluster demolitions have taken place in the capital between 1990 and 2020. Following Covid-19 pandemic, the problem of forced evictions and...
Residents of the neighbourhoods in south east Delhi have been repeatedly evicted by the authorities in the name of environmental preservation. Many now live in...
A woman writes about life on the streets in Mumbai
On December 20, 2022, Uttarakhand High Court ordered the eviction of about 50,000 people in the Muslim-dominated Banbhoolpura neighbourhood in Haldwani after...
Economic development that threatens the lives and livelihoods of indigenous people cannot be the only model available to us
Decades after the Narmada Bachao Andolan began, the struggle over evictions still continues
While it remains to be seen whether the government will budge under pressure in the case of the taking over of ‘grazing land’ and ‘state land’, the...
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...
