Mafias in a sentence

The bench also said that if the Delhi government can’t take any action against tanker mafias, then it will ask Delhi Police to take action against tanker mafias.

Verma also said that the approval of Ujjain’s Master Plan will lead to a loss of about Rs 500 crore to the state exchequer while on the other hand the land mafias will get benefit of at least Rs 1500 crore.

Yeah, I’ve looked at this stuff internationally trying to find similar things, and there’s tons of similar things going on, and a lot of them get taken over by mafias or cartels, which are synonyms.

This statement follows allegations by Alhaji Aliko Dangote, President of the Dangote Group, who has accused certain ‘mafias’ of attempting to sabotage his $20 billion refinery project.

Meanwhile, alert locals have demanded strict action against the sand mafias.

Quarry mafias are on the prowl in Bangriposi block of Mayurbhanj district despite the ban on the illegal activity, according to reports.

State government needs to immediately take necessary steps to curb such mafias,” he posted on the micro-blogging site.

The film will be reportedly set in a fictional dramatic world of mafias and will see the superstar playing a quintessential hero who stands up for the rights of the common man.

In India, for example, sand “mafias” have developed, with gangs stealing sand from a river bend or a beach overnight.

While sand smuggling can happen across international borders,Vince Beiser, the author of The World in a Grain, says “sand mafias” mostly prefer to work in-country, where transport costs are considerably lower.

Ken Agyapong has vowed to strip Kweku Baako and his coffee shop mafias’ naked if pushed to the wall.

Mining in the region had always been a dangerous vocation: the mines were controlled by violent local mafias which operated with impunity.

Raising fears that politically connected wildlife mafias were seeking to eliminate campaigners exposing their networks, Mr Bradley Martin was the second conservationist investigating the ivory trade to meet a violent death in six months.

The Barbary macaque, a primate endemic to Morocco and Algeria, is also facing extinction due to human interruption, urbanization, wood and real estate mafias that help in diminishing forests and thus affecting its habitat.

This would, in their view, bypass nation-states, corporate oligopolies, ideological Non-governmental organizations (NGO), political cults and mafias.