Noida’s big crackdown: Extend your balcony or fence authority land, and you could lose your plotNoida Authority is cracking down on property owners who encroach on public land by extending balconies or adding rooms. Ignoring two notice...
11 Aug, 2025, 07.31 PM IST
SC calls proper footpaths a constitutional right, asks states, UTs to frame pedestrian-friendly guidelinesThe Supreme Court has instructed all states and union territories to create guidelines for proper footpaths. This directive emphasizes pede...
14 May, 2025, 11.26 PM IST
Delegation of Muslim clerics meets LG, demands action against 'illegal' Bangladeshis in DelhiA delegation from Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah area urged Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena to launch a special drive to identify and rep...
07 Dec, 2024, 04.45 PM IST
Coaching centre deaths: MCD seals five more basements of coaching institutes, tally reaches 35The MCD sealed five more coaching institute basements on Wednesday, raising the total to 35 since Sunday. The action targeted commercial us...
31 Jul, 2024, 09.29 PM IST
Stop bulldozing poor peoples' livelihood, says West Bengal LoP Suvendu AdhikariTwo days after the chief minister reprimanded civic authorities and raised questions on the attitude of the authorities in addressing civic...
26 Jun, 2024, 07.55 PM IST
After Mamata Banerjee's outburst, police begin evicting encroachers from footpaths in KolkataA day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed strong displeasure over the encroachment of footpaths in Kolkata and its n...
25 Jun, 2024, 03.04 PM IST
Will not move from this site: Uttarakhand tunnel rescue hero after spending second night on footpathA rat-hole miner, Wakeel Hassan, who was involved in a rescue operation last year, is refusing to move from the site where his house was de...
01 Mar, 2024, 01.44 PM IST
To save lives: Here's what Delhi police recommends to reduce the number of fatal crashes in DelhiThese recommendations include removal of encroachment on footpaths, creating separate bus bays and also providing halting space for public ...
01 Oct, 2022, 05.09 PM IST
Pune: PMC tells Ganesh mandals to dismantle pandals obstructing trafficOver 1,500 mandals had approached the PMC for permission to put up pandals. Most pandals were erected on the roadside. Even though the Gane...
16 Sep, 2022, 03.04 PM IST
Bulldozers roll over illegal shanties in DelhiThe people residing alongside the KN Katju road in Delhi's Rohini area were left agonised as their illegally constructed huts were demolish...
12 May, 2022, 01.59 PM IST
How can you stop people from eating what they want?: Gujarat HC on non-veg food rowThe HC made the remarks on Thursday while disposing of a petition filed by nearly 20 street vendors claiming the AMC's recent anti-encroach...
10 Dec, 2021, 01.53 PM IST
SC asks NDMC to remove encroachments from pavements in residential areas of DelhiA two-judge bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta passed orders to this effect in the M.C. Mehta case.
02 Sep, 2019, 08.56 PM IST
Supreme Court: Do you think we can bring in Ram rajya?A bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur gave a long discourse to Dhanesh Ieshdhan, who has filed a PIL seeking to make footpaths encroac...
27 Aug, 2016, 12.09 PM IST
Eateries on pavements without permit are encroachers: High CourtThe petition by Sanser Pal Singh also alleged that in most cases these establishments are operating without valid licence or permits.
14 Feb, 2016, 10.26 AM IST
BMC chief orders officials to make pavements encroachment-freeMumbai Municipal Commissioner Ajoy Mehta has ordered the officials to remove encroachments on the footpaths across the city.
30 Sep, 2015, 12.44 PM IST
Delhi LG Najeeb Jung orders drive to clear footpathsThe initiative was taken on priority basis after several incidents of accidents involving pedestrians walking on the road were reported.
01 Dec, 2014, 12.27 PM IST
SC issues notice to Centre, states on encroachment of footpathA bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha granted 10 weeks time to the Centre and the states to file their response on a PIL seeking its di...
05 Sep, 2014, 07.41 PM IST