As land prices skyrocketed and South Chennai suburbs developed rapidly, water bodies among government (poramboke) lands have become easy prey for land sharks.

At least a dozen lakes have been conver

Residents of Ragamalika Apartments in Adyar are in a fix as the Chennai corporation has demolished the compound wall of their apartment claiming it to be an encroachment.

While the residents assert

A private complaint has been filed before the Lokayukta court alleging large-scale irregularities and encroachment of the ‘raja kaluve’ in Kodigehalli area. The complaint has named the chief secretary

Encroachment of prime land in Teynampet, worth Rs10 crore, has deprived corporation school students a playground. For the past 20 years, there has been no playground for Chennai high school, located o

Tiruttani MLA Arun Subramaniam (DMDK) was arrested in a land grab case in Thiruvallur near here on Wednesday.

This is the first time that a MLA of the main Opposition party has been arrested in a lan

Royapuram, one of the core and oldest parts of erstwhile Madrasapattinam, is deprived of its walking space, and residents’ behaviour of eating into the roadside space has made matters worse.

The cor

For almost a decade now, nine acres of land housing the defunct old Gandhi Hospital building have been lying vacant in the heart of Secunderabad city, adjacent to Monda Market. The land is officially

Pavements on either side of Wall Tax Road have been encroached upon by hawkers and cycle-rickshaws, leaving no space for pedestrians.

Moreover, the subway on the stretch has failed to serve any purp

At a time when the State BJP is facing embarrassing charges of nepotism and corruption, picking tainted corporators as city fathers has dealt another blow to the party's image and to the citizens' hop

The BBMP is giving the Forest Department a hard time by refusing to dismantle a road it built as a temporary measure on a lake.

The road was built by the BBMP on the Puttenahalli Lake near Yelahanka