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An ongoing large-scale demolition and eviction plan, part of the Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s strategy to achieve Vision 2030, which impacts half a million people in over 60 neighbourhoods in the coastal city of Jeddah, violates international human rights standards and discriminates against foreign nationals, Amnesty International said today calling on the authorities to […]

Jahangirpuri is just one of hundreds of colonies in Delhi, a majority of whose residents live in unauthorised, unplanned or unregularised settlements.

Express News Service CHENNAI: With eviction of slum dwellers set to resume as they still reel from the effects of the lockdown, State authorities continue to have a tough time clearing commercial establishments, some of them large-scale, for restoring water bodies. According to official estimates, there are at least 102 shops and commercial complexes identified as being in the Cooum river’s right of way, mostly concentrated on the stretch from the Koyambedu bridge to NSK Nagar. Among them, so...