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Topic: illegal constructions

Inside Ayodhya crackdown on ‘colonisers’ who ‘bent law’ to cash in on post-Ram-temple surge in land rates

Last August, Ayodhya Development Authority's purported ‘list of illegal colonisers’ found its way to social media. Since then, there's been a scramble for regularisation of these plots.

How ‘unauthorised’ constructions are taking over Delhi’s urban villages marked for DDA land pooling

Delhi Development Authority's land pooling policy remains a non-starter due to 2 criteria landowners struggle to meet — 70% landowner participation & 70% contiguous encroachment-free land.

Colonies on Prayagraj’s floodplains are not just for poor. Here’s how rich & mighty ‘flout’ construction ban

Prayagraj Development Authority identified 30,715 illegal constructions, the highest in Uttar Pradesh. Demolition of constructions in floodplains practically not possible, says official.

Faridabad banquet halls, Murthal dhabas & more: All guilty of flouting green belt norms in Haryana

In Assembly, Khattar govt says over 1,500 unauthorised constructions have been detected & many have been already demolished. Congress MLA claims illegal constructions going unabated.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.