As the administration completes its preparations for an eviction drive to clear 500 hectares of forest land in Assam’s Lakhimpur district, many of the “illegal settlers” were seen carrying away their belongings on...
In the Haldwani case, while the Supreme Court has postponed the matter for its next hearing on Februrary 7, we look at the chain of events that led to the eviction notice and the matter being taken to the courts.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices S A Nazeer and P S Narasimha posted the matter for hearing after advocate Prashant Bhushan mentioned the matter.
A mock drill by security forces for the drive was conducted on Sunday, they said. Out of 2,560.25 hectares of Pava reserved forest, only 29 hectares are currently free of any encroachment. In the first phase on January 10,...
A bench comprising Justice SK Kaul and Justice Abhay S Oka emphasises that it's a human issue and a 'workable solution' must be found to not evict people in Haldwani’s Banbhoolpura area in the biting cold.
The AHRC observed that the eviction drive had involved around 1,000 security personnel. Ten bulldozers and two excavators were used in the exercise.
Public Works Department (PWD) has given the residents of the Dhaula Kuan slum notice to leave the area in order to eliminate illegal land encroachments
The largest eviction drive in Assam's Nagaon district, near the birthplace of Vaishnav saint Srimanta Sankardeva here, began on Monday amid tight security
The Assam government is all set to carry out a major eviction drive in 1,200 bighas (nearly 397 acres) of land from alleged encroachment in Nagaon district, a...
Jammu and Kashmir: Former CM Mehbooba Mufti was issued eviction notice by UT administration, saying that she was not entitled to use the bungalow on the high...
Palaniswami and other AIADMK members were evicted from the state assembly, after the Speaker said that they had come to the House with an intention to 'riot.'
BJP's Jamshedpur president Gunjan Yadav alleged that atrocities on tribals and Dalits have increased in the state after the Hemant Soren government came to...
According to the government's policy, up to 40 artistes can be allotted accommodation under a special quota in the General Pool Residential Accommodation on...
The street vendors had just begun regaining their livelihoods in the pandemic when they were hit by this eviction drive.
Hundreds of displaced tribals of Chhattisgarh staged a protest at Jantar Mantar on Wednesday, demanding rehabilitation under Forest Rights Act.
In Assamese relief camps', the life of Bengali-speaking Muslim peasants, evicted by the government to accommodate Northeastern tribals, is stretched between...
Cheetah Camp in Trombay has been a transit camp forever. Its residents, displaced from another settlement have waited for nearly 46 years to get houses with...
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The CDFI in a memorandum submitted to Shah on Friday cautioned against the "growing alienation of the Chakmas from the Bharatiya Janata Party as a result of...
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The CDFI in a memorandum submitted to Shah on Friday cautioned against the "growing alienation of the Chakmas from the Bharatiya Janata Party as a result of...
For the grieving kin of those killed in the recent spate, the wait for the body of the deceased is now one of pain and long hard struggle
The police brutalities against the Maynals and Hussains look very timely for BJP with bypolls in six Assembly elections lined up.
According to information, more security personnel were being brought in to bolster security and prevent any escalation of trouble in the state in the wake of...
The government had carried out an eviction drive in the same revenue circle on Monday rendering 800 families comprising about 5000 people homeless.
The Kishenganga Project left the historically rich ‘Dard-Shin’ tribe of Gurez valley devoid of their land, identity, culture and livelihood. Now, they are...
More than 3.6 million Americans are at risk of eviction, some in a matter of days, as nearly $47 billion in federal housing aid to the states during the...
