HC seeks response to plea for rehabilitation by 60 families
The Hindu
Petitioners said they were illegally evicted from Gol Market
The Delhi High Court has asked the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and the Delhi Government to respond to a plea by over 60 families, whose shanties were removed from Gol Dak Khana, seeking allotment of flats as part of the rehabilitation scheme.
Justice Rekha Palli also issued a notice to the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) and posted the case for further hearing on December 3.
Aasheesh Pittie says birdwatching is not very unlike hunting, except that nothing is killed. “You track… you want to follow the bird… see it,” he says about this activity that he has pursued for nearly fifty years. Pittie, the editor of the ornithological journal Indian Birds, author of many classic reference books about birds and most recently, a collection of bird essays titled The Living Air: Pleasures of Birds and Birdwatching, was speaking at an event organised by the Archives of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS).