Daltonganj: In a rare instance of community cooperation, villagers of Sohdaag Khurd under Nawa Bazar block in Palamu district have voluntarily withdrawn from cultivating around seven acres of forest land they had been using for years to make way for a nursery of the forest department.Despite repeated warnings from the department, the locals had been…
Kanpur: Forest Department demolished a mazar on Sayyed Shah Baba’s grave, built on 3,000 sq ft govt land, in Fisher Forest area, 1.5 km from Etawah, after the caretaker failed to prove its legal status. The operation began late Wednesday evening and continued into the late-night hours. Three bulldozers brought down the mazar in around…
Jaipur: The Gurjar Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti’s plan to install a statue of late Gurjar leader Col Kirori Singh Bainsla at Kaushalipura Darra in Sawai Madhopur’s Khandar tehsil has triggered a standoff with the Rajasthan govt, with the administration refusing permission for construction on forest land.More than 5,000 Gurjar community members gathered at the site Friday…
