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 …
A petition has been filed in Lahore High Court against setting up of food street after removing green belt in Shad Bagh scheme-II. Former naib nazim Hafiz Moein Ahmad through his counsel Muhammad Azhar Siddique filed the petition. The petitioner said Parks and Horticulture Authority had removed green belt in …
This Supreme Court order dated May 11, 2011 dismissed CBI's curative petition against the 1996 apex court judgement on Bhopal gas tragedy that diluted the criminal charges against UCIL top brass including its Bhopal unit head Keshub Mahendra. Supreme Court order on curative petition Nos. 39-42 of 2010 in criminal …
The Punjab government on Tuesday informed the Lahore High Court (LHC) that Rs42 million had been transferred to the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) for installation of 150 filtration plants on tubewells in the city. Additional advocate-general Muhammad Hanif Khatana appeared before chief justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry, who was hearing …
BHUBANESWAR: As the Orissa Government on Saturday responded to Ministry of Environment and Forest’s (MoEF) queries on Posco project, the “ball” was back in Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh’s “court.” “Yes, after the State Government sent its reply to the MoEF, the ball is back in my court,” Ramesh told reporters …
Every Indian city, worth its salt, was known by its water body. Structures -- tanks, lakes, step wells and the channels to convey rainwater –determined the city’s water manners. Today, these water bodies are a shame – encroached, full of sewage, garbage or just filled up and built over. In …
Jairam Ramesh It is for the government of Orissa to meet the legal rules if the mammoth Posco steel project is to be cleared by him, said Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh. A day ahead of a meeting with Orisa chief minister Naveen Patnaik, who reiterated that project clearance is …
If numbers were enough, the case of Organic Seed Growers & Trade Association, et al versus Monsanto would already be won. On March 29, family farmers—in America, this essentially means small farmers; in India it would be redundancy— along with seed dealers and international organic farming organisations, filed an unusual …
A DISPUTE has erupted on the streets of New York. It is about the streets themselves. Bike lanes, to be precise. A bike lane was installed in Brook-lyn area on residents’ request in 2010. But on March 7 this year a section of the residents filed a lawsuit in a …
A DELHI court has allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to seek extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation chairperson Warren Anderson, the prime accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, from the US. Anderson, 90, has never faced trial in the case. On March 23, while allowing CBI’s plea …
A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice H S Kapadia began the hearing of curative petitions in the Bhopal gas tragedy on April 13. While hearing the curative petition filed by the CBI to re-examine the 1996 Supreme Court's judgement, the five-judge bench questioned the CBI …
The court of judicial magistrate first class (JMFC), R D Hazare, has directed Niranjan Hiranandani, chairman and managing director of Hiranandani Group of Companies and his wife Kamal Hiranandani, director of the group
CBI's seeking extradition of 90-year-old former Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation Warren Anderson in connection with Bhopal Gas tragedy case may have come too late, according to leading lawyers. Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan said "the agency (CBI) was sleeping" over the years. He, however, described the Delhi court's order allowing …
The documentary Bananas! highlighted plight of Nicaraguan banana plantation workers who brought a legal case in the US against the use of a banned pesticide DBCP by the Dole Food Company. Tom Levitt reports.
The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Union Carbide Corporation, Dow Chemicals and others on a Centre's plea seeking increase in compensation to the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore. A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia also …
India maintains that it is well within its rights to construct the project Pakistan sought a quick resolution of its dispute with India on the 330-MW Kishenganga hydropower project in Jammu and Kashmir and wanted an immediate site-inspection by the International Court of Arbitration during its preliminary hearing on January …
N.J. Nair THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State government is planning to move the court seeking to enhance the minimum wage being given to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) beneficiaries from Rs.125 to Rs.200. Official sources told The Hindu here that this option was being explored in the wake …
Human rights activist Binayak Sen spent two years in jail before being granted bail. Charged with sedition, waging war against the Indian state, as well as being a Maoist supporter, both under normal laws and under the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act and the Unlawful Activities Act, the evidence has …
On the government decision not to pursue Bhopal gas victims’ case in the New York court It is ill-considered and neither in the interest of the victims nor of India. It benefits Dow Chemical Company (Union Carbide is now a subsidiary of Dow) that has asserted it is not subject …
