Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
A day after banning all forms of chewable tobacco in the capital, the government has approached the Delhi high court seeking to enforce a similar curb on plastic bags. In an urgent application filed on Tuesday , the Delhi government requested the court to quickly dispose of a petition challenging …
The Central Information Commission has pulled up the environment ministry for providing "false and misleading" information that it had conducted no study on the harmful effects of mobile radiations. It has also asked the ministry to explain why it has allowed unrestricted installation of mobile towers and not formulated any …
In what has caused concern among environment lovers, the state government has failed to utilize the "green cess" collected by it for its avowed purpose of environmental conservation and reduction of carbon footprint, ever since the Goa Cess on Products and Substances Causing Pollution (Green Cess) Act 2013 came into …
Over a quarter of Delhi’s government schools are functioning without a water connection. Of the 798 that bothered to respond to a query filed under RTI by a Delhi NGO, 220—27.5%—reported they don’t have a Delhi Jal Board connection. “We work in the northeast district (there are 13 school districts …
Not for the first time, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has asked the Coal Ministry to not auction the Mahan coal block in Singrauli as it is located in an inviolate forest area. According to an office memorandum obtained under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by …
Hyderabad: The Chief Information Commissioner has taken a serious note of the ministry of environment and forests providing “false and misleading” information to an RTI query on the harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation emitted by cellphone towers on human beings. The ministry had said that no study had been undertaken …
It may sound strange, but the central government is seriously considering a river regulation zone (RRZ) policy like Maharashtra's to save rivers, while the state government has scrapped the 15-year-old policy for being 'bad in law'. Another reason cited was that the RRZ policy was against the constitution, though the …
The environment levy on more than 1.62 lakh vehicles has not been paid by their owners during the current fiscal, reveals an RTI query. However, Mumbai scored better than the rest of Maharashtra on this count as most cars in the megapolis are less than 10 years old. The green …
Observing that walking on footpaths is the right of citizens and it is being taken away by car owners, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday sought a response from the state government on issues relating to haphazard parking and increasing number of vehicular traffic in Mumbai. Justices N H Patil …
Many licensed units are allegedly extracting groundwater There are nearly 64 water packaging units operating in Delhi, many of them allegedly extracting groundwater, even as the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has no statistics of such units. The list of water packaging units across India with BIS licence in 2014 …
Even as the state forest department is happy with the marginal rise in tiger numbers from 169 in 2010 to 190 in 2014, are these numbers arrived at by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) indisputable? In 2010, in Maharashtra, WII had given a …
The Statue of Unity is likely to face a legal hurdle with a group of environment activists set to move the National Green Tribunal (NGT) against the state government’s ambitious project to construct the 180-metre statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at a distance of 3.2 km downstream of the Narmada …
Farmers of Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad district of Haryana, whose land was acquired for setting up country's largest 2,800 MW nuclear power plant, are now claiming that the state failed to keep the promises made while taking their consent for acquiring the property. The villagers have now submitted a complaint …
Owners of 363 acres prime land in Pataudi are unhappy as the Manohar Lal Khattar government has gone ahead with the Bhupinder Singh Hooda regime's move to acquire their land under Land Acquisition Act, 1894. Around 300 land owners were sent notices under Section 4 of the law expressing the …
RTI activist Pradeep Pradhan on Sunday said the successive State Governments, including the incumbent Naveen Patnaik regime, have not framed any land allotment policy in last 50 years only to exercise discretionary power to allot Government land to people of their choice. Commenting on the land allotment irregularities revealed by …
Chandigarh, December 24: Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has directed the State Vigilance Bureau to probe the alleged irregularities in construction work of the Kaushalya Dam on the river of the same name in the vicinity of the Panchkula-Shimla road, near Pinjore. The inquiry has been marked on a recent …
New financial analysis based on information on Coal India obtained via the Right to Information Act calls into question fundamental assumptions regarding Coal India’s long-term financial performance and raises important questions for asset owners, asset managers and advisors interested in the upcoming offering. The briefing also suggests key questions investors …
A high-level committee constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and headed by the former Cabinet Secretary of India, TSR Subramanium with the alleged intent of diluting the existing environment, forest and wildlife laws, has been ‘found to be lacking in’ any locus standi. The …
An RTI enquiry has found that a high-level committee, formed by the ministry of earth sciences and climate change to review environmental laws, was not constituted according to requisite administrative procedure. The committee, headed by former cabinet secretary T S R Subramaniam, was tasked to review six environmental, forest and …
Environmentalists have scoffed at the civic body's claim that it has been planting three new trees for every one cut. Activists have specially brought attention to the cutting and plantation drive on Thane-Belapur Road. The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC), sources said, cut 757 trees for developing the Rabale service …
