Police remove protesting conservancy workers in Chennai, shift them to marriage halls
In a late night operation on Wednesday (August 13, 2025), the police detained all the conservancy workers of the Greater Chennai Corporation, who have been staging a protest for the past 13 days demanding that privatisation of conservancy operations be dropped in two zones of the city. Nearly 400 police personnel, who were deployed from around 11.30 p.m. on Wednesday (August 13, 2025), began removing the conservancy workers.
Thousands of forest rights titles go missing in Chhattisgarh records, officials claim ‘reporting error’
Thousands of forest rights titles distributed across at least three districts in Chhattisgarh seem to have disappeared from the records of the State government’s Tribal Welfare Department at various points over the last 17 months, according to documents accessed by The Hindu through the Right to Information Act. State government officials claimed that the earlier, higher figures were faulty, due to “miscommunication and error in reporting”, which has now been corrected.
Supreme Court notice to Centre on plea to introduce a system ‘similar’ to creamy layer concept for SC/ST reservations
