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 …
The Delhi high court and the city's lower courts are proving to be the major obstacles in the way of cleaning the Yamuna river, the Union urban development ministry recently stated in a reply to the Supreme Court. The reply was in response to the apex court's direction asking the …
The Supreme Court of India has adjourned till August 2001 the hearing on a petition seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against the Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar, writer Arundhati Roy and advocate Prashant Bhushan. The petition was filed against them for staging demonstrations outside the court against its verdict …
after cracking the whip on the Delhi government to clean up Delhi's air, the Supreme Court ( sc) has set its eyes on cleaning up the Yamuna. On April 10, 2001, the apex court asked the Delhi government to clean up the river by March 31, 2003. The bench comprising …
The Supreme Court has stayed a project of the Uttaranchal government to build a highway from Kotdwar to Ramgarh, following allegations that the proposed road will pass through the Corbett Tiger Reserve and destroy thousands of trees. Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, has also requested the prime minister to block the …
leather that weathers,' is a catchline of a well-known shoe brand. What is not mentioned is that it also decays and contaminates the soil and water. In the process of making leather products
As governance formally surrendered the administration of Delhi to chaos on All Fools' Day, April 1, 2001, the fate of its citizens' health and public transport continued to hang in balance. Ministers and politicians had a field day blaming each other for the chaos and rioting that broke out on …
A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court for the protection of wetlands. M K Balakrishnan, an advocate, has filed the petition, which also includes a provision for paddy fields to be declared as productive wetlands. The PIL is based on a ruling given by the …
a move to solve one problem, is creating another one for the Andhra Pradesh government. The Supreme Court had ordered the state governments to dispose off effluents without contaminating any waterbody. To implement this order, the Andhra Pradesh government has recently decided to lay a pipeline that would connect Hyderabad's …
two months after the Supreme Court (sc) directed the Delhi government to de-seal industrial units, owners of which were willing to give an undertaking that the premises would not be used for any non-conforming activity, not a single unit has been de-sealed as yet. In November 2000, the state government …
There is much confusion among government authorities and industrialists regarding the definition of a polluting industry. Even those seeking de-sealing have no clue on what basis they should file the application. Consider the case of a plastic moulding unit. The owner has alleged that he was given a license to …
the Delhi Transport Corporation (dtc) has once again showed its hypocrisy regarding the Supreme Court's order to convert the existing bus fleet to compressed natural gas (cng). On the eve of the apex court's March 31, 2001 deadline, it issued a global tender for the purpose, the technical bid for …
• The water crisis in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, may soon be abated. The city will start getting water from the Narmada River via the Raska wier. Other areas that will benefit include Vadodara, Bhavnagar, Amreli, Rajot and Junagadh. • India's first indigenously developed HIV detection kit will be soon available in …
CSE Pollution Load Model CSE estimated the actual impact of moving public vehicles to cng fuel on the air pollution load of Delhi. The model helps to predict the future vehicular pollution load in two possible scenarios. Impacts of interventions such as those ordered by the Supreme Court are measured …
in a far-reaching decision, the us Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the us Environmental Protection Agency (usepa) to set clean air standards, rejecting the industry's arguments that the economic costs of regulation must be weighed against the health benefits. "The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the usepa efforts to …
The cse study shows that the cng strategy will help to get closest to the clean air target compared to slow changes in diesel technology. • When buses, autos and taxis move to cng by 2001, the total particulate emissions load from vehicles will reduce by about 32 per cent …
• When all buses, autos and taxis which ply in Delhi move to cng by 2001, the total pollution load of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from vehicles will reduce by about 18 per cent against the target of 68 per cent by 2010. • NOx pollution levels will be still so …
on the basis of a fresh petition filed by the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan and Bhopal Group for Information and Action, the Supreme Court has ordered that compensation should be paid to some of the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy. As per the notification dated March 2, …
What message are you sending by slapping an eight per cent duty on a clean fuel like the compressed natural gas (CNG)? Will it not jolt to the nascent CNG market, when the tax generated will amount to a mere Rs 6 crore? Won't it also jeopardise the Supreme Court's …
