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 …
Chennai: Sterlite Copper on Thursday received National Green Tribunal’s conditional nod for limited access to carry on administrative functions only, but not restarting the smelter or other manufacturing operations. Posting the case for August 20, the green bench allowed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board 10 days to submit data …
The Bombay High Court (HC) has rejected a bunch of petitions filed by housing societies and private developers, challenging a 2017 National Green Tribunal order and a subsequent resolution of the government, restraining any development work on hilltops and hill-slopes and 100 meters area surrounding hills. A division bench of …
Jodhpur: Rajasthan High Court has issued notices to the state pollution control board seeking reply in four weeks about the efforts to stop the pollution in Rajasthan Canal and Gang Canal. The division bench of Justice Nirmaljit Kaur and Justice Dinesh Mehta issued these notices while hearing a PIL drawing …
Nainital: In the ongoing matter pertaining to safety of tigers in the state, the Uttarakhand high court on Thursday expressed displeasure at the affidavit submitted by the chief secretary in the matter on August 6 and directed additional chief secretary and chief wildlife warden of the state to appear personally …
AN Edo High Court presided over by the the Chief Judge of the State, Justice E. F. Ikponmwen has nullified the Edo State Sanitation and Pollution Law2010, describing it unconstitutional. Claimants in the suit are Mr Johnson Igbinedion and Mrs Eunice Igbinedion. The defendants are Edo State House of Assembly, …
Last year, the High Court of Bangladesh directed the Government not to approve any industrial development within the 10-kilometre buffer zone of the reserved forest, but according to UNESCO, approvals continue to be given. The Sundarbans forest, which is the largest contiguous mangrove forest in the world and home to …
Nagpur: Casting aspersions on committee headed by Brahmapuri deputy conservator of forest (DyCF) Kulraj Singh on capture of Sindewahi tiger (C1), the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court held that National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) standard operating procedure (SOP) was not followed while caging the so-called problem animal. The two-year-old …
Although a complete ban on the use of polythene will be effective in the state from Tuesday, little has been done by the authorities to spread awareness on the issue. Sources said unaware of the ban, people continued to ask for polythene bags from shopkeepers. Chief Minister TS Rawat had …
Early one morning in 2014, public health officials arrived at Anthony Wainaina’s workplace in Mwea town in Kenya’s Kirinyaga County, and arrested him. His crime — defaulting on his tuberculosis (TB) treatment, which would see him serve a two-year jail term. The 31-year-old matatu tout was diagnosed with multi-drug resistant …
The Gujarat government is likely to bar citizens from owning more than one vehicle at the same time as it pushes for modes of mass transportation and cut down road congestion. The state will either issue a notification or come up with a bill to this effect, said sources. Banning …
Thoothukudi resident Prince Cardoza has filed a writ petition in Madras High Court's Madurai bench seeking to quash the Environmental Clearance (EC) granted to Sterlite Copper in 2007 for the existing four lakh tonne per year smelter complex. The Court has admitted the petition and issued notices to all parties …
Jaipur: The high court has directed the chief secretary to be present in the court on July 27 with a comprehensive water conservation plan to save the dams as the government has been found lacking in implementing the order of the high court on Ramgarh dam and other dams in …
The police have told the Delhi High Court that loudspeakers were permitted under noise pollution rules which only lay down restrictions, like timings and decibel level, to regulate their use. The Delhi Police made the submission before a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar …
Main objection is reduction of land area from the high tide line; Seek public hearing before notification is implemented PANJIM: The High Court of Bombay at Goa on Monday issued notices to the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC;) in connection with a petition filed by social …
The Delhi High Court today criticised the Centre's National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) for converting the city into "one big traffic zone", instead of de-congesting it. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar said that instead of building more housing space, flyovers and …
BENGALURU: Wondering as to why the government has not been able to clean up the highly polluted Bellandur Lake for the past three years, the high court on Thursday directed that a senior official should appear before it on Friday and explain what’s happening with the waterbody. “For three years, …
PIL petition says survey, removal of encroachments not carried out in the last 10 years With a view to protecting all 39,202 waterbodies in the State, as mentioned in the government’s policy note for the year 2017-18, a public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court …
This was mentioned in a counter-affidavit filed by NHAI director in the High Court in response to a batch of PILs and writ petitions challenging the project CHENNAI: Contradicting the claim of Tamil Nadu government, the project implementation director of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) submitted in the Madras …
Judgement of the Bombay High Court in the matter of Unmesh Diwakar Raote Vs Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai & Others dated 13/07/2018 regarding unauthorized cutting of trees at Purandare Wadi, Gokhale Road, Mumbai. The petitioner (Unmesh Diwakar Raote) has challenged the Order passed by the Metropolitan Magistrate, Shindewadi, Dadar, …
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the State Government to appoint Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), to record noise level in Cuffe Parade, around the Metro 3 railway line construction site. Noise levels have to be recorded for 24-hours, for a period of seven days. During the last hearing, …
