NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the state of Assam to maintain status quo on Sonapur demolitions drive and issued a notice to the authorities in response to a contempt petition filed by 47 residents, who alleged deliberate non-compliance with the Court’s interim order dated September 17.The order had directed that no demolition…
LUCKNOW: Englishman James Shirley’s 17th-century poem “Death the Leveller” is a lyrical reminder that “sceptre and crown/must tumble down/and in the dust be equal made”.Four centuries later, as a bulldozer stopped in front of Kotwali police station in UP’s Siddharthanagar and a band of bewildered cops tried to make sense of what was happening, the…
HYDERABAD: Actor Nagarjuna Akkineni‘s state-of-the-art convention centre – touted as a “one-stop destination for all occasions” – was pulled down by the newly-formed Hyderabad Disaster Response and Assets Monitoring and Protection Agency (HYDRA) on Saturday morning for allegedly encroaching upon Tummidikunta lake‘s full tank level (FTL) area, reports Amisha Rajani.Nagarjuna, who termed the demolition of…
Minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and actor Nagarjuna Akkineni HYDERABAD: Actor Nagarjuna Akkineni‘s state-of-the-art convention centre – touted as a “one-stop destination for all occasions” – was pulled down by the newly-formed Hyderabad Disaster Response and Assets Monitoring and Protection Agency (HYDRA) on Saturday morning for allegedly encroaching upon Tummidikunta lake‘s full tank level (FTL) area,…
