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Guwahati: Assam government has started an eviction drive in Goalpara district. With this eviction the district administration will reclaim around 1,040 bighas of land in Paikan Reserve Forest of Krishnai Forest Range in Goalpara. The encroachers were given a July 10 deadline to vacate the area. The Gauhati High court has earlier asked the government to clear encroachment in the forest land. A senior government officer said, "We are clearing 149 hectares. The process is likely to be completed ...Read More >
Goalpara, Jul 12 (PTI) An eviction drive to clear encroachment of around 135 hectares of land in the Paikan Reserve Forest in Assam's Goalpara district was conducted smoothly on Saturday, an official said. Goalpara District Commissioner (DC) Khanindra Choudhury told PTI that the operation concluded peacefully. "The structures were dismantled. It went off peacefully," he said. As many as 40 excavators were pressed into action, along with heavy security deployment to ensure peaceful eviction op ...Read More >
Guwahati, Jul 10 (PTI) Asserting that eviction drives will continue in Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said that over 25,000 acres of land have been cleared of encroachment across the state in the last four years. Addressing a press conference after a cabinet meeting here, Sarma announced that an eviction drive will take place in Goalpara on Saturday to clear forest land from alleged encroachment. Also Read | Bengaluru Peeping Tom Case: CM Siddaramaiah Condemns Man Filmin ...Read More >
Dhubri, July 9: A day after violence broke out during a massive eviction drive in Dhubri district, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma defended the government's action, asserting that there is "nothing humane about eviction" and that some resistance was to be expected during an operation of such scale. "It was a huge eviction and we were expecting some retaliation. Ninety percent of the people cooperated. Only about 10% retaliated. It was a peaceful eviction," Sarma said, speaking to the press o ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Monday sought govt's response to a plea filed by AAP against the rent demand for its party office in Vithalbhai Patel House in the capital. Justice Sachin Datta issued notice to govt on AAP's application, which was filed in a case where the party challenged the cancellation of the allotment of the suite for its office. The matter was posted for July 22.The high court sought the response after AAP's counsel urged it to stay the June 20 reminder notice demanding the ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday sought a response from the Centre following a plea by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), challenging a rent demand notice for its former state party office located in Vithalbhai Patel House, Delhi. Justice Sachin Datta issued the directive while hearing AAP's application in an ongoing case that contests the government's earlier cancellation of the office allotment. The Centre now has two weeks to file its reply, with the next hearing sched ...Read More >
Guwahati, July 6: Alleging that the evictions carried by the State government in different parts of the State has severely affected various communities, including indigenous Bodos, Karbi, Garo, and Ahom populations, in addition to Assamese Hindus and minority Muslim communities, the State Congress today sought the intervention of Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya. In a memorandum, the Congress said that "constitutional values are getting eroded with the displacement of communities, where the peo ...Read More >
New Delhi: Flagging the "egregious misuse" of the Delhi Rent Control Act, the High Court has termed it an "anachronistic piece of legislation" and set aside a rent controller's 2013 order.Justice Anup Jairam Bhambani, in a recent order, was dealing with petitions against the orders of the additional rent controller (ARC) that dismissed eviction petitions filed by owners of properties in Sadar Bazar.The owners are now based in the UK and Dubai and sought eviction of their tenants, but their plea ...Read More >
New Delhi: A single missile. Thirty seconds. That is all Pakistan had when India's BrahMos slammed into the Nur Khan Airbase - just minutes from Islamabad. No early warning. No clear warhead signature. No time to guess whether it carried a conventional payload or a nuclear one. Rana Sanaullah Khan, special assistant to Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, went public. He said that 30-second window nearly sparked a nuclear chain reaction. His words were not laced with bravado. They carried ...Read More >
Shillong, July 3 (UNI) A division bench of the Meghalaya High today appointed a senior advocate, Subhasis Chakrawarty as "Special Officer" to oversee the implementation of its directions related to hawkers and street vendors. During the hearing of three separate public interest litigation (PIL) related to hawkers and street vendors, Phuyosa Yobin, the legal counsel of Meghalaya and Greater Shillong Progressive Hawkers and Street Vendors Association alleged that in the guise of enforcing the Hi ...Read More >
Shillong, Jul 1 (PTI) Tensions flared in the high-security government secretariat here on Tuesday as hawkers staged a protest at the main entrance following an ongoing eviction drive. The Meghalaya and Greater Shillong Progressive Hawkers and Street Vendors Association (MGSPHSVA) demonstrated against the eviction drive carried out by the Shillong Municipal Board (SMB) and the Urban Affairs Department. The protesters carrying placards raised slogans as the SMB targets hawkers operating without ...Read More >
Guwahati: Following the Court's instructions, the Nalbari district administration, with the support ofpolice and paramilitary personnel, demolished 93 homes in Bakrikuchi, Mukalmua under the Barkhetri Revenue Circle. A total of 93 families were evicted from government land that flows distress and anguish as many, including elderly and women, collapsed in tears on the roadside. Residents of the evicted families cried out in despair, with one saying, "Let the government crush us under the JCB mac ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that Hindi was a "friend to all Indian languages", adding that there should be "no opposition" to any foreign tongues. This comes as several political parties have criticised the Centre over three-language policy, accusing it of Hindi imposition."I sincerely believe that Hindi can't be opposed ('virodhi') to any Indian language. Hindi is a friend ('sakhi') of all Indian languages," Amit Shah said. Shah was addressing the golden jubilee ce ...Read More >
New Delhi: A 90-day nationwide mediation campaign to resolve pending disputes across courts -- from district courts to high courts -- will begin on July 1, the Supreme Court's mediation and conciliation project committee (MCPC) and the national legal services authority (NALSA) announced on Thursday. The campaign, Mediation for the Nation, will be organised under the guidance of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan R. Gavai, patron of NALSA, along with NALSA executive chairman and senior Supreme ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jun 26 (PTI) The National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) and the Supreme Court's Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee (MCPC) will have a 90-day long "For the Nation" mediation campaign starting July 1 to settle pending cases. The pan-India mediation campaign would continue till September 30, 2025. "Mediation 'For the Nation' campaign is being launched across India to settle the pending cases and make people believe that mediation as a mechanism for dispute resolution is pe ...Read More >
Mumbai: Days after the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) said it would pay Rs 20,000 per month as rent to residents who evacuate the cessed buildings, the housing body issued a circular detailing a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). Only those tenants will be eligible for monthly rent if they meet one of the following conditions: they have opted for a transit camp unit, have opted for rent due to unavailability of transit units, have independently arranged alternate ac ...Read More >
Mumbai: While the Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Expressway is now fully operational, a crucial extension of the Mumbai-Nashik Highway from four to eight lanes over a 23-km stretch between Magathane and Vadpe remains incomplete -- even after more than four years of work. The project, whose revised deadline was Feb 2025, continues to be behind schedule.The widening of this stretch was supposed to be completed before the Samruddhi Expressway was opened, in order to accommodate the anticipated surge in tr ...Read More >
Mumbai: Disposing of an appeal in a landlord-tenant dispute heard in Mumbai courts for 22 years, the Supreme Court has asked Bombay high court to call for a report from concerned courts regarding the period of pendency in such disputes and initiate appropriate steps for expeditious disposal of these cases."When it comes to landlord-tenant disputes, there is an angle of being deprived of the enjoyment of the property and also the monetary benefits that accrue from owning such property,'' the Supr ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tensions have escalated in Southeast Delhi's Batla House area after several homes and commercial establishments were marked with red Xs, an ominous sign that locals say has historically preceded demolition drives, by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and the Uttar Pradesh Irrigation Department, leaving hundreds of residents in fear of sudden eviction. According to the DDA, the action stems from a Supreme Court directive ordering the clearance of encroachme ...Read More >
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