Amartya Sen approaches court against eviction notice from Visva-Bharati University

Amartya Sen approaches court against eviction notice from Visva-Bharati University

[ad_1] Kolkata: Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen has approached a district court in Birbhum district of West Bengal against the eviction notice issued by the Visva-Bharati University authorities in the ongoing dispute over 13 decimals of land. The university authorities accuse Sen of illegally occupying the land within the varsity campus at Bolpur Santiniketan in…

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Landgrabbers encroach over 400 kanals of wetland in Kashmir, eviction notices serve no purpose

[ad_1] Srinagar, Apr 21: Wetlands comprising over 400 kanals have been encroached by land grabbers in Kashmir Valley. Despite sending scores of eviction notices, and registering police cases, the Wetlands Division of Wildlife Department Kashmir has miserably failed to retrieve the encroached land. The official data as per the news agency Kashmir News Trust presents…

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Land issue: Visva-Bharati hopeful Amartya Sen will respond to eviction notice by next week

Land issue: Visva-Bharati hopeful Amartya Sen will respond to eviction notice by next week

[ad_1] Kolkata: Visva-Bharati is hopeful that Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, who is accused of illegally holding a 13-decimal plot owned by the university, will respond by next week to an eviction notice sent to him. Otherwise, the central university said it will take any decision deemed appropriate to recover “unauthorisedly occupied land”. The eviction notice,…

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Poor, landless won’t be touched during eviction drive: DC Srinagar

Poor, landless won’t be touched during eviction drive: DC Srinagar

[ad_1] Srinagar, Feb 15 : Deputy Commissioner Srinagar on Wednesday said the administration will not touch the poor and landless people during the anti-encroachment drive as directed by the Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha. Talking to reporters, Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Muhammad Aijaz Asad, as per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said they are following the…

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Assam: Eviction drive reaches 2nd day in Sonitpur; Bengali-speaking Muslims most affected

Assam: Eviction drive reaches 2nd day in Sonitpur; Bengali-speaking Muslims most affected

[ad_1] Tezpur: The drive to evict “encroachers” from nearly 1,900 hectares of forest and revenue land in Assam’s Sonitpur district continued for the second day on Wednesday, with 12,000-odd people, who were allegedly staying there illegally for decades, left in the lurch, a senior official said. Since morning, the administration started the eviction in five…

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