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 Gujarat High Court has issued notices to Alembic Ltd, the Gujarat government and Gujarat State Pollution Control Board (gpcb) over contamination of groundwater in Paneval village in Panchamahal district of Gujarat. The Vadodara-based Alembic, one of the oldest pharmaceutical companies in India, has a plant in the village manufacturing …
defective blood-testing kits sold to West Bengal government clinics, blood banks and hospitals may have resulted in thousands of people receiving hiv or Hepatitis B- and C-infected blood. Infections through blood transfusion are being reported across the state. The government is seizing kits and has issued a warning to all …
PRIME agricultural land in the fertile terai of Uttaranchal is being acquired to set up industrial estates in the districts of Udham Singh Nagar, Nainital and Haridwar. Mining and topsoil quarrying are compounding the problem of agricultural retreat in the terai and the hills. Following its new industrial policy of …
POLLUTING industrial units in Cuncolim Industrial Estate, located about 10 km from Madgaon town in Goa, are beginning to feel the heat. On September 11, 2006, the Goa State Pollution Control Board (gspcb) issued closure notices to three units. Less than a month later, on October 6, it issued closure …
ON SEPTEMBER 12, 2006 the Madhya Pradesh High Court issued notices to the Union and state governments on the removal of 21,00,000 families from the below poverty line (bpl) list. The order came in response to a public interest litigation filed by a number of ration card holders. They claimed …
on september 22, the Kerala High Court quashed the state government's orders banning production and sale of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the state. By Section 23(1A) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, only the central government has the right and powers to prohibit manufacture and sale of food …
delhi is in the grips of a severe outbreak of dengue, which has claimed a number of lives. Dengue cases started being reported in the capital since early September, but the issue came into focus when a student at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences died of the disease …
The war over Glivec, a cancer treatment drug, is expected to intensify as two writ petitions filed by Novartis AG, the Swiss pharmaceutical group, come up for hearing on September 26, 2006, in the Madras High Court. Petition 24754 was filed against the January 25, 2006, order of the assistant …
Heavy rains lashed parts of Maharashtra and Gujarat reminding people of last year's deluge. The rains were caused by low pressure in the Bay of Bengal. This intensified into a deep depression, causing torrential rains in Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh. Gujarat and Maharashtra suffered flooding. Karnataka and Madhya …
the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (gpcb) served a closure notice to a plant of Alembic Ltd in Panelav village of Panchmahal district, Gujarat, on August 25, 2006. It manufactures bulk drugs and drug intermediates. The notice was issued after it was found that the plant was environmentally hazardous and its …
on august 7, 2006, the Orissa state legislative assembly unanimously resolved to oppose the Andhra Pradesh government's decision to dam the Godavari river at Polavaram.
On August 22, 2006, Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss virtually gave a clean chit to the cola companies. Within 24 hours, the minister had to issue disclaimers. Ramadoss's initial reactions came in a written statement submitted to the Lok Sabha on August 22, 2006. He was presenting the findings of …
the struggle against the callous industrialists who dumped toxic chemical waste on two plots in the Sindh Industrial Trading Estate (site) in Karachi, resulting in the death of a child and serious burn injuries to over 20 people (see
"The Constitution guarantees the right to life and to personal liberty. The values which underlie Article 21 of the Constitution are seriously eroded by deaths on such a systemic scale, as the facts before the court in relation to the State of Maharashtra demonstrate... . The suicides that have occurred …
a divisional bench of the Sindh High Court comprising Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Nadeem Azher Siddiqi on July 26, 2006, ordered that industrial waste should not be dumped on plot numbers F-620 and F-621 in the Sindh Industrial Trading Estate (site)
the Himachal Pradesh High Court recently ordered the expansion of Ranbaxy's fermentation plant in Ganguwala village in the Sirmaur district to be stopped. The order came after residents of the village filed a petition. Villagers alleged that the company was violating environment norms as well as the land laws of …
the Gujarat High Court division bench comprising Justice K R Vyas and Justice Akshay Mehta came up with comprehensive guidelines for manhole workers on June 27, 2006. This was in response to two petitions filed, following the death of 12 manhole workers in the state in 2005. The petitions brought …
