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 …
Acting on a petition, the Supreme Court (SC) directed the Bokaro Thermal Power Station to identify the area where it can dispose of its slurry and fly-ash safely and make compensatory afforestation for the damage to the environment. Earlier, in the petition it was alleged that toxic waste from the …
The closure of tunnels T3 and T4 comes even as a vast majority of people displaced remain to be rehabilitatedeven as recommendations of the Union government appointed Hanumantha Rao Committee remain to beimplementedeven as the Prime Minister appointed Murli Manohar Joshi committee is yet to submit its report and even …
The US Supreme Court has upheld the legality of patents for plants and seeds. The recent ruling will help the crop-biotechnology industry. But it has upset populist farm groups and anti-biotechnology groups. The 6-2 opinion has kept intact utility patents granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office in the …
ever since the Mashelkar Committee submitted its interim report on the country's auto fuel policy on January 1, 2002, the authorities have gone into overdrive. While it took the Union ministry of petroleum and natural gas barely four days to accept the recommendations in their entirety, the Union cabinet too …
If Arunachal Pradesh has over 80 per cent forest cover, one of the highest in India, what sort of appreciation does it get? The Supreme Court's ruling of 1996, which places restriction on felling of trees, says that the Forest Conservation Act, 1980, has to be implemented in order to …
The Supreme Court has ordered the committee for conservation, supervision and experimentation of animals to carry out inspection in units which produce anti-venom serum from blood taken from horses and see if these units are following the norms. Passing orders on a public interest litigation (PIL), the court said that …
The Union government has been directed by the Supreme Court to conduct an enquiry into the allegation that huge quantities of hazardous waste oil were imported to India through various harbours. The government has been asked to submit the report within seven weeks from December 3, 2001. The court's directive …
Private operators have bulldozed the Delhi government into indefinitely deferring the phase-out schedule for diesel buses. As against a target of 2788 buses, only 727 have gone off the roads in December 2001. On October 18, the Supreme Court (sc) had directed the city government to phase out 8881 diesel …
The Supreme Court has given eight weeks' time to the Union government to prepare the necessary plan for making Fatehpur Sikri, the capital of the Mughal empire for some time and now in Uttar Pradesh, a national heritage city for its better preservation. Acting on a petition seeking rehabilitation of …
The Supreme Court recently ruled that forest authorities are entitled to confiscate not only illegally felled timber but also implements and tools used for illegal activities. Allowing the appeal of the West Bengal government against the judgement of the Calcutta High Court, the apex court clarified that the power to …
Quite frankly our friends in government would be right in saying that they are damned if they don't and even more damned if they do. But what can we say. It is truly amazing how our government agencies learn so little about how programmes can be made to work. Every …
a leading English daily reported that 200 Delhi Transport Corporation (dtc) buses were plying on the capital's roads without catalytic converters. It stated that emissions from these vehicles, running on compressed natural gas (cng), were 90 per cent more than those from other such buses. Instead of a catalytic converter, …
The Supreme Court has asked Uttar Pradesh to identify appropriate land to set up oxidation plants to treat sewage before being discharged into the river. The areas are to be identified at Lakhimpur, Jaunpur and Barabanki by December 7, 2001. The order was passed after the standing counsel for the …
Among the vehicles that dot Delhi's roads in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's ruling to convert diesel buses to compressed natural gas (cng) is Tata's lpo 1510 cgs bus. The vehicle gets the second position in the ratings and has several advantages. The bus has scored the highest points …
the Uttar Pradesh government has implemented the five-year-old Supreme Court (sc) directive to close down all brick kilns within 20 kilometre radius around the Taj Mahal. Orders have been issued for dismantling of the chimneys of these brick kilns, informed the counsel for the state government, Ajay Agarwal. On May …
the Supreme Court has reiterated that it will not allow diesel buses with 500 parts per million (ppm) sulphur to ply on Delhi roads after September 30, 2001. The court also clarified that it had not mandated autos and taxis to run on compressed natural gas (cng) only. It added …
The Supreme Court of India has criticised the state governments and the union territories for their negligence in effectively implementing the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act to prevent female foeticide through prenatal sex selection. "There has been total slackness on the part of the administration in …
The Tamil Nadu government is planning to reopen all the polluting tanneries of the state, despite the Supreme Court (SC) ordering for their closure. The state labour minister, Anwar Raja, recently announced that efforts are being made to open all the tanneries as they have installed common effluent treatment plants …
