The Union government has given in-principle approval for the transfer of the Uttarakhand High Court from Nainital to Haldwani. The move comes after the state cabinet gave its approval last year, but lawyers and traders in...
Hari Sharranam Jun is a Hindu institution led by Swami Ram Govind das since 1997, arising from Haldwani (Uttarakhand) creating harmony through various religious and social works globally. Today his organisation Hari...
On December 20, 2022, Uttarakhand High Court ordered the eviction of about 50,000 people in the Muslim-dominated Banbhoolpura neighbourhood in Haldwani after the railways claimed people were illegally encroaching on 78 acres...
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...
In Uttarakhand's Haldwani, an ongoing land dispute between the North Eastern Railways and 'illegal encroachers' may lead to the demolition of nearly 4,500 homes.
Outlook’s latest issue, ‘Eviction, Erasure, Exclusion’, explores the magnitude of the problem of demolitions and forced evictions, their histories, the legal rights of the poor and the homeless and the devastating...
The quality of water of the Ganga has become "A-Grade" up to Rishikesh and the goal now is to make it "A-Grade up to Haridwar, the chief minister said.
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 their right to reside on what they call their ancestral land
Large-scale evictions are an unpopular yet inadvertent manifestation of how a state can practice demographic control. Such acts are often justified by the...
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...
Asaduddin Owaisi, president of AIMIM, called on the Uttarakhand government and the Centre to regularise the settlement of people at Haldwani, where the high...
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the directions of the high court regarding removal of the encroachments. The top court has posted the matter for further...
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...
The Uttarakhand High Court on December 20 ordered the removal of encroachments from 29 acres of railway land in the town's Banbhoolpura area after giving a one...
On December 20, the Uttarakhand High Court ordered the demolition of constructions over encroached railway land at Banbhoolpura in Haldwani. Following this,...
Haldwani's Banbhoolpura railway land has been encroached upon by constructions, according to the Uttarakhand High Court.
The blast occurred around 12 am outside the residence of BJP's Nainital district president Pradeep Bisht in Harinagar area of Haldwani, Nainital District...
