Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
PROMOTERS of Lavasa, India’s first planned hill station, have agreed to accept the pre-conditions imposed by the Union environment ministry over which the project’s clearance was stuck. The ministry had reprimanded Lavasa Corporation Limited for violating environmental laws at the project site near Pune in Maharashtra. In a volte-face, the …
PANJIM: Henceforth, stocking and sale of firecrackers will be disallowed in the State, if they do not conform with standards prescribed by Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, as amended. Also, import of such firecrackers has been banned. The government has directed collectors and district magistrates of both districts to disallow stocking, …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests constituted a committee under the Chairmanship of Shri J.M. Mauskar, Special Secretary to Government of India vide Office Order No.J-11013/30/2009-IA.II (I) (Pt.) dated 14th December, 2009 to examine the issues relating to monitoring of projects. The mandate of the committee was as follows: To …
The West Bengal Government has devised a multi-pronged strategy to curb the growing environmental degradation including development of appropriate technology to curb industrial and other pollution and introduction of environment guards. The Environment Minister, Mr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar, said a committee has been set up to suggest ways to tackle …
Firm ready to accept the five preconditions specified by environment ministry. Lavasa Corporation, whose hill city project near Pune has been put on hold for failing to get green clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), is in a patch-up mode with the ministry. After a long legal …
The city police, which registered an FIR under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) against owner and crew members of the sunken vessel MV Rak have now booked them under the Environment (Protection) Act and Water (Prevention And Control Of Pollution) Act. The FIR under IPC section 336 (act …
NEAMA to take care of Environmental Assessment and Monitoring while Enviroment Ministry will retain the power of approval India’s road to “a complete change” in the environmental regulatory system could begin as soon as Cabinet approves the proposal to set up the National Environment Assessment and Monitoring Authority, or NEAMA. …
Whereas, Regional Officer, Regional Office-Cum-Lab, JS>PC Board, Dhanbad was imspecting the industrial units of Bokaro on 06-07-2011 and saw huge amount of dust were being emitted through various stacks of coke oven plant, raw material, plant, steel melting section of your plant and very high fugitive emissions.
Chandigarh Punjab pollution control board (PPCB) has slapped notices on 54 government and private hospitals for violation of various norms for managing and handling bio-medical waste. Teams of the nodal agency conducted raids throughout the state and found that a large number of hospitals have been violating pollution control norms. …
Forest Bench issues guidelines for future clearances The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the French cement company Lafarge to mine limestone in the forests of the East Khasi hills in Meghalaya. The Forest Bench, comprising Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices Aftab Alam and K.S. Radhakrishnan, accepted the contentions of …
Almost a year ago, the Ashok Gehlot government in the state enforced a blanket ban on the use of plastic bags in the state. The move was much appreciated and welcomed. However, that was then.The present situation is quite different. Plastic bags are being used by almost everybody in the …
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has asked the Uttarakhand government to take action to stop illegal river bed mining in Ganga, particularly around Haridwar. This latest missive comes on the heels of the death of Swami Nigamanand, who was protesting against mining in the Ganga. Ramesh's strongly worded letter to Uttarakhand …
Mumbai: Five days after the environment ministry asked the state government to initiate action against Lavasa Corporation for environmental violations on a portion of its hill city project in Pune, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday indicated that the option to
THE Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) has asked detergent company Nirma to explain why the environmental clearance granted to its cement plant in Gujarat should not be revoked. The ministry issued a show cause notice to the company on May 11 after a report by a group of …
Affidavit filed on behalf of Union of India (MOEF) in the Writ Petition No 811 of 2011 in Lavasa Corporation Ltd vs Union of India & Ors dated 15/06/2011.
Bhubaneswar: The case relating to violation of forest laws by Jindal Steel & Power for its six million tonne steel plant at Angul has taken a new turn with the state forest and environment department asking the ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) to take necessary action under Environment Protection …
Ministry of Environment and Forests has ordered the lifting of the stop work order on the construction of the last five spillway gates of the controversial Maheshwar Hydel Project being constructed on river Narmada in Madhya Pradesh by the S. Kumars Group of Companies. The Ministry of Environment and Forests …
