Fasting to get justice

Social activist Medha Patkar's indefinite fast to protest evictions in the Golibar area and to stop demolitions in the city, entered the sixth day today.

Social Activist Medha Patkar has been on a seven-day hunger strike to protest against the demolition of 43 houses in the Ganesh Krupa Housing Society in the Golibar Slum area of Mumbai.

Concerned members of the civil society and those from the Golibar Andolan (movement) joined hands to start a campaign to urge conscientious Mumbaikars to contact Ajay Maken, the Union housing minister, to stop the demolitions in Golibar, Khar (E).

Golibar, the prime land of 125 acres has become a battleground for 70 + old households, women and men, who are fighting a valiant battle for the last 5 years, tooth and nail in Mumbai. Through Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, they have exposed the ...

The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) has decided to take up with the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs the matter of establishing a sports academy at Golibar Maidan. A decision to send the proposal requesting allotment of funds was taken during the ...

After decades of creating far-flung resettlement colonies for evicted slum dwellers which often lacked basic services and access to employment the Central government finally refined its thinking on slum policy and introduced the Rajiv Awas Yojana.

On directions of the high court, the Nirmal Nagar police station recently formed a special investigative team under the supervision of divisional assistant commissioner and police inspector (crime) to find the 15-year-old son of a whistleblower who was ...

DOTTED with slums, H-East — the ward comprising areas such as Bandra (East), Khar (East) and Santacruz (East) — is in dire need of infrastructure and amenities, especially public toilets. But till January end, the 11 corporators representing the ...

"How ignorant can one be? Buggers shouldve checked whether the building is authorized or not. Illiterate people, I tell you," said one of my friends on Facebook chat. He sent laughing smiley (:D) at the end of the chat. He perhaps didn't know that, ...