Orphan elephants play at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) elephant orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. Luggard, a lively three-year-old, limps behind the rest of his ragtag troupe of orphan elephants, halting to graze or rub against a tree. When he was just five months old, Luggard was found struggling to keep up with his herd in Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park. He had been shot twice.

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The road links Wakad with Pimpri-Chinchwad and so is crucial. In 2012, only a 24-metre-road was constructed. However, the open land was encroached and temporary sheds were set up, which have now developed into permanent shops. read more

Drive was conducted against the hawkers that encroached 10,000 square feet of government land, says official read more

Jaipur is among 100 cities in the country to be developed as smart cities under the Smart Cities Mission by the Union ministry of housing and urban affairs read more

Following allegations of land encroachment levelled by a municipal councillor on the society running Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad, the Ghaziabad Development Authority(GDA) has constituted a committee to look into the matter. read more

An indigenous child of Uru-eu-wau-wau tribe looks on in an area deforested by invaders, after a meeting was called in the village of Alto Jamari to face the threat of land grabbers. Ten days after Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro took office, dozens of men armed with machetes, chainsaws and firearms entered the protected area, hacking a pathway beneath the jungle canopy to stake their claims.

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Work on the Sohna elevated road project is likely to commence by next month as the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has said it will remove encroachments along this road in Badshahpur village over the next 15 days. read more

The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) found that a significant number of encroachments in the city involved street vendors next to commercial offices and multinational companies. read more

The official was identified as Arun Sonkusre, an inspector at PCMC’s encroachment department, according to the police read more

In a first, the Madhya Pradesh forest department will deploy drones to take on the mining mafia, illegal loggers and encroachers of forest land read more

On November 20, 2018, the NGT had ordered the demolition of encroachments on the Badshahpur nullah based on a report by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC). read more

 According to the RTI information received, PCMC owns 1,167.79 hectares (unit of measuring land),out of which 772.50 hectares has been encroached upon. read more

Places such as Laxmi Nagar, Shahdara, Seelampur, Burari and Lajpat Nagar, where Hindustan Times conducted spot checks, have almost no functional footpaths. Most of them have either been encroached upon or broken while others have been designed poorl... read more

Road safety experts stress on the need to provide continuous, barrier-free and disabled-friendly pavements, especially on arterial roads since the traffic volume is high. read more

The Railway Protection Force (RPF), which in charge of security inside trains, blamed encroachments on tracks for railway-related crimes in Delhi. read more