Demolition drive
- Hyderabad
This is not Gaza: BRS draws Palestine parallel to slam Khammam demolitions
Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), in its latest attack on Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, compared the state of Gaza to the demolition drives in Khammam, calling it “Revanth’s Bulldozer Raj.”…
- India
Demolition drive ends in Rajkot, 1,489 houses razed
Rajkot: More than 1,400 houses were pulled down during the two-day mega demolition drive in Rajkot city and land valued at more than Rs 350 crore was freed up, an official said…
- Telangana
Not in my name: Gandhi’s great-grandson slams evictions for Musi project
Hyderabad: Amid protests from the Opposition over eviction notices sent to residents of Madhu Park Ridge Apartments for the Gandhi Sarovar Project on the banks of Musi river in Hyderabad, Tushar Gandhi,…
- Telangana
500 families get evicted in Khammam on land govt allocated to temple
Hyderabad: For eight years, they cleared the vegetation, built their homes and settled into the land in Khammam that no one seemed interested in. On Tuesday, February 24, the authorities arrived with…
- Telangana
Controversy, confusion surrounds Gandhi memorial at Hyderabad’s Musi river
Hyderabad: As the foundation-laying ceremony of the Gandhi Sarovar Project nears, the project, which is being undertaken as part of the River Musi rejuvenation initiative, is now surrounded in controversy, with the…
- India
Varanasi businessman sets self, shop ablaze during demolition drive
Tensions escalated in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi after a large-scale demolition drive in the famous Dalmandi area on Monday, February 9, triggering a man to allegedly pour petrol on himself and set his…
- Delhi
Turkman Gate violence: Can’t pick up bystanders, HC to Delhi police
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday, February 6, said bystanders cannot be “picked up” for being part of the mob that indulged in stone pelting during a demolition exercise near…
- Delhi
Turkman Gate violence: Court reserves bail for five, two sent to judicial custody
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday, January 13, reserved the bail order for five men allegedly involved in a stone-pelting incident near the Faiz-e-Elahi mosque in the Turkman Gate area for…
- India
Turkman Gate violence: 400 truckloads of debris cleared from demolition site
New Delhi: Three days after a court-ordered anti-encroachment drive triggered clashes and stone pelting near the Faiz-e-Elahi mosque at Turkman Gate, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has cleared the site after removing…
- India
Turkman Gate violence: 3 more held, 16 arrested so far
New Delhi: Delhi Police has arrested three more persons accused in the Turkman Gate stone-pelting incident, taking the total number of arrests in the case to 16, an official said on Saturday,…
- India
Friday prayers offered amid tight security in Delhi after demolition drive
New Delhi: Friday prayers were offered in Turkman Gate area amid heavy police deployment, drone surveillance and barricading, even as locals urged authorities to restore normal business activities, saying prolonged restrictions were…
- Hyderabad
Video: GHMC conducts demolition drive in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has conducted a demolition drive against illegal constructions. On Monday, officials targeted unauthorized structures in the Attapur Ambience Fort area. Police contingent was deployed The…
- India
SC halts Assam’s Golaghat eviction drive; relief for 2,000 families after HC refusal
The Supreme Court, on Friday, August 22, ordered status quo on the large-scale demolition and eviction drive in Assam’s Golaghat district. A bench Justices PS Narasimha and Atul S Chandurkar passed the…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad witnesses demolition drive to clear encroachments on Friday
Hyderabad: Hyderabad witnessed a demolition drive on Friday as authorities took action against illegal encroachments. The Hyderabad Disaster Management and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) carried out the operation at IDL drain and…
- Hyderabad
Video: HYDRAA launches demolition drive in Hyderabad’s Jubilee Hills
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Disaster Response and Assets Protection Agency (HYDRAA) has launched a major demolition drive on Road number 41 in Jubilee Hills on Friday, May 23, to clear illegal constructions along…
