Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
Municipal Corporations Told To Reconnect Licensed Towers. In a direction that may bring relief for mobile phone users reeling under frequent call drops, the Delhi high court has asked the three municipal corporations to immediately deseal mobile towers for which cellular operators have obtained valid licenses. A special bench of …
The DIPP has asked all secretaries of central ministries and chief secretaries of the states and Union Territories to simplify regulatory environment and to introduce online filing of forms so as to improve the ease of doing business on "priority basis". Listing out the steps, it said that all return …
PANJIM: In a major decision, the draft ‘Goa Investment Policy’ has proposed that the industries coming under Green category shall be exempted from renewals of their NOC/consent to operate from Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB). As of now, all the industries irrespective of green, orange and red category, have …
KOLKATA, 8 NOV: The state government is contemplating sending a joint delegation with representatives from leading business chambers to Delhi to press the Centre to lift the embargo on environmental clearances for new industries in the state. Emerging out of a nearly two-hour meeting of the state's industrial core committee …
Unrelenting in her opposition to a proposed National Investment Board, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan Monday said that she would personally speak to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue in an effort to ensure the environmental issues are not sidelined. Natarajan said she would raise the issue in the Cabinet. …
New Delhi: After a long hiatus, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is back in action, taking strong measures to protect its stance on various issues pertaining to environment and forest clearances. It has decided to introduce a new categorisation declaring a portion of mineral bearing areas as ‘inviolate’ …
High courts should replicate for states what the Supreme Court has done for Delhi's environment M J Antony / New Delhi March 31, 2010, 0:07 IST In its activist zeal, the Supreme Court has often dared to take up social and environmental problems that appeared to be insurmountable. In several …
BY VENKAT PARSA NEW DELHI A transparent mines regulatory regime is on the cards. The Union mines ministry plans to develop a Mining Tenement System, which will help in creating a transparent regulatory regime for prospecting and mining licences in collaboration with the state governments. Several states are already experimenting …
Pakistan's Sindh high court has issued a notice to the federal and provincial governments and to two companies on the cancellation of oil and gas exploration license in the Kirthar National Park (KNP). The petition was filed by a group of nine non-governmental organisations. The petition states that drilling for …
India's power sector might be in for a big change. A proposed electricity bill of the Union government will free power generation from licensing and change the status of the state electricity boards (SEBs) into one or more companies within a year. Discussions regarding the proposed bill are being held …
The latest environmental fix in Delhi, once again under the pressure of the Supreme Court, is the relocation of polluting industries situated in the areas that are in non-conformity with the city's Master Plan. Four years went by without the government taking any serious action and now that the court …
for the first time, the us environmental protection agency ( usepa ) has cancelled a company's license to grow genetically modified ( gm ) crop. The license to grow StarLink, a gm corn, was cancelled after it was reported to be present in two popular edible brand products. The corn …
reeling under a total halt to its timber trade after the Supreme Court imposed a ban on all timber-related activities in the Northeast five years ago, the state government of Assam has formulated a new set of "Assam Wood-based Industries (Establishment and Regulation) Rules, 1999'. This has come in response …
the West Bengal Pollution Control Board ( wbpcb ) has banned the setting up of new businesses, including hospitals and nursing homes in Calcutta and Howrah. The wbpcb has come out with three lists totalling 218 industry categories and asked the Calcutta and Howrah Municipal Corporations not to grant licences …
