<p>Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of All India Drug Action Network & Others Vs Union of India Ministry of Health & Others dated 13/09/2023. Additional Solicitor General informed
Chief Justice Bhaskhar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala while issuing notice also asked the Union government why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against them for not complying to High Court order Gujarat High Court has issued contempt notice to the Union government for its alleged non-compliance of its earlier order to allocate natural gas to Ahmedabad city under APM (administered price mechanism) price which is at present applicable to cities like Delhi and Mumbai.
‘It Got Nod Without Safety Measures’ New Delhi: An appeal has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging a Madras high court order dismissing a writ petition seeking implementation of critical safety
A city-based advocate has sought a Madras High Court direction to the State government to prohibit the manufacture and sale of tobacco and nicotine consumable products, including pan masala and gutka, in the interest of public health. In the public interest litigation, P.T.Geotom of George Town said tobacco was used by nearly 1.1 billion people and up to one-third of the adult population in the world. The WHO had said that tobacco consumption was the leading preventable cause of death. Tobacco consumption caused 5.4 million deaths per year. In India, there were nearly 275 million tobacco users and every year about one million people died.
Other Vehicles Barred From Dedicated Lane, Signalling To Change For Simultaneous Right Turn New Delhi: This weekend, the Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor will go back to its original
The Rajasthan High Court on Monday directed the state government to collect samples of potable water supplied by PHED department in the city and get them checked in laboratory and file the results in the court after two weeks. The order came on a letter written by Navyug Samaj Samiti, which was admitted as a PIL by a division bench comprising Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice N K Jain (senior).
Court Had Directed JDA To Be Cautious About Green Belt Jaipur: A division bench of Rajasthan High Court has asked the state government to submit details of all land use changes effected in the Master Plan of Jaipur region after March 2005. The order came on a contempt petition filed by one Prakash Shukla. In March 2005, while disposing of a PIL filed by one Yashwant Sharma, a division bench of Justice Shiv Kumar Sharma and Justice K S Rathore had asked the state government to earmark 200 bigha of land for ecological zone in Jaipur region as also to restrain from making wholesale and casual land use changes in the Master Plan of Jaipur in future.
JAIPUR: The state government is again in the dock for allowing mining of bajri (riverbed sand) allegedly in violation of SC directives. On the basis of a public interest litigation filed in this regard, the Rajasthan High Court has sought a clarification from the government and its mining department within seven days. An NGO, Nature Club of Rajasthan, has accused the government of continuing with the old system of bajri mining even though the rules governing sand quarries have been amended in accordance with the SC guidelines. It is alleged that the mining department's notification of June 21 this year has neutralized the amended rules in favour of the illegal bajri miners.
1,706 tigers today, up from 1,411 in 2007 Should the approximately 1,700 tigers left in India be treated as sacrosanct, not to be exploited by India’s tourism industry? Or, should they be looked at as valuable commodities, responsible for filling the coffers of the state? This is the firestorm of a debate that Ajay Dubey sparked off, when he, through a public interest litigation filed in the Madhya Pradesh High Court in September 2010, asked that tourism be banned in ‘core’ tiger areas — zones where tiger density is particularly high — in line with the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, and its 2006 amendment.
Dilly, dally, jumpstart. Jharkhand High Court’s most recent prod in June 2011 should see the much-delayed Mango drinking water project worth Rs 64.15 crore take off in January 2013. The high court, which
PIL regarding pollution generated by polythene bags JAMMU: In a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) regarding pollution being generated by polythene bags, Division Bench of State High Court comprising Justice Virender Singh and Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar today directed Commissioner, Jammu Municipal Corporation and Chairman Pollution Control Board to appear in person on the next date of hearing.
