Occupancy, investment & civic authority’s inaction don't legitimise unauthorised structures, the top court held, while issuing new rules & preventive measures to curb illegal construction.
Apex court invokes its special powers under Article 142, says necessary to 'allay fears in minds of citizens with regard to arbitrary exercise of power by officers' of the State.
Day after demolition drive in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, Surat Municipal Corporation razed properties belonging to alleged gangster brothers Aarif & Sajju Kothari.
If top leadership in Congress and BJP merely listed their legislators who either own unauthorised properties or are in the business, they will know what the current ruckus is all about.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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