Encroachment

Bulldozers are being used to remove encroachments across 20 districts of Jammu and Kashmir. Besides retrieving land, many structures have been demolished.

The Bombay High Court on Monday asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to ensure that the footpaths in the city are "actually walkable" for pedestrians and directed it to remove encroachments by unlicensed hawkers.

Legendary athlete and Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president P T Usha on Saturday broke down before the media alleging that illegal constructions were being carried out at her academy campus in Kozhikode district.

The MCD will carry out a 15-day drive to remove temporary and permanent encroachment from footpaths in the national capital and will clear all kinds of waste from roads to beautify the city ahead of the G20 Summit.

Constructions linked to Congress, National Conference leaders removed; top police officers, families had also built on state land

The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has taken cognisance of the alleged encroachment of a railway land in Uttarakhand's Haldwani.

An offence has been registered against a man in Thane district for allegedly making a hoax call about a fire so that encroachment on the road leading to the spot would be cleared, police said on Thursday.

The drive to evict encroachers from forest land in Assam's Lakhimpur district continued for the second day on Wednesday, with 299 families residing on a 250-hectare tract left in the lurch.

Bulldozers rolled out in Assam's Lakhimpur district today as part of a massive eviction drive to clear over 500 hectares of encroached forest land.

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi today said the Uttarakhand government and the Centre must regularise the settlement of people at Haldwani in the hill state where the high court had ordered for the removal of encroachments from 29 acres of land

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has raised objections to the alleged use of minor children during protests against the removal of "encroachment" from a Railways land in Uttarakhand's Haldwani.

Haldwani locality faces demolition after Uttarakhand High Court order on "encroachment" of railway land; thousands of residents protesting

A week after a massive eviction drive in Assam's Nagaon district to clear nearly 400 acres of encroached land, a similar drive has been launched in Barpeta district. A legislator who had come to support the locals was also detained during the drive.

Twenty-seven families and 17 shops were evicted from a school land, which they allegedly encroached upon, in Assam's Morigaon district on Friday, an official said.

The Assam government has launched a massive eviction drive in Nagaon amid tight security to clear nearly 400 acres of encroached land.

Bulldozers are being used to remove encroachments across 20 districts of Jammu and Kashmir. Besides retrieving land, many structures have been demolished.

The Bombay High Court on Monday asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to ensure that the footpaths in the city are "actually walkable" for pedestrians and directed it to remove encroachments by unlicensed hawkers.

Legendary athlete and Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president P T Usha on Saturday broke down before the media alleging that illegal constructions were being carried out at her academy campus in Kozhikode district.

The MCD will carry out a 15-day drive to remove temporary and permanent encroachment from footpaths in the national capital and will clear all kinds of waste from roads to beautify the city ahead of the G20 Summit.

Constructions linked to Congress, National Conference leaders removed; top police officers, families had also built on state land

The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has taken cognisance of the alleged encroachment of a railway land in Uttarakhand's Haldwani.

An offence has been registered against a man in Thane district for allegedly making a hoax call about a fire so that encroachment on the road leading to the spot would be cleared, police said on Thursday.

The drive to evict encroachers from forest land in Assam's Lakhimpur district continued for the second day on Wednesday, with 299 families residing on a 250-hectare tract left in the lurch.

Bulldozers rolled out in Assam's Lakhimpur district today as part of a massive eviction drive to clear over 500 hectares of encroached forest land.

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi today said the Uttarakhand government and the Centre must regularise the settlement of people at Haldwani in the hill state where the high court had ordered for the removal of encroachments from 29 acres of land

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has raised objections to the alleged use of minor children during protests against the removal of "encroachment" from a Railways land in Uttarakhand's Haldwani.

Haldwani locality faces demolition after Uttarakhand High Court order on "encroachment" of railway land; thousands of residents protesting

A week after a massive eviction drive in Assam's Nagaon district to clear nearly 400 acres of encroached land, a similar drive has been launched in Barpeta district. A legislator who had come to support the locals was also detained during the drive.

Twenty-seven families and 17 shops were evicted from a school land, which they allegedly encroached upon, in Assam's Morigaon district on Friday, an official said.

The Assam government has launched a massive eviction drive in Nagaon amid tight security to clear nearly 400 acres of encroached land.