Order of the High Court of Uttarakhand (WPPIL No. 202 OF 2024 with WPPIL NO.174 OF 2024) in the matter of mining operations in Bageshwar district, Uttarakhand. The order was passed by the Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court Guhanathan Narendar and Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari. In compliance with the …
The State government has ordered the Lokayukta police to investigate the alleged payment of bribe to officials and non-officials by those involved in illegal iron ore mining, as per the findings of the Karnataka Lokayukta in its report on illegal mining in the State. In its order issued on September …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Tuesday approved modifying its earlier decision to allow state governments to grant mining leases for coal blocks to companies if there is no CBI enquiry against them. The modification was proposed after the Supreme Court refused to split coal blocks into those …
The Manmohan Singh government has had to abandon its bid to facilitate mining in at least a handful of a hundred-odd coal blocks being scanned by the Supreme Court since September 2012. The setback to the Centre’s plans to start production in coal blocks allotted to private firms not being …
‘The pursuit of super profits has drained the miners of feeling for fellow human beings’ It is one of the most scathing reports from the stable of Justice M.B. Shah Commission on illegal iron and manganese ore mining. It holds businessmen, the Odisha government and the Union government, responsible for …
The proposal has strong penalties for breach of ethics Once bitten, twice shy. After the Union comptroller and auditor-general saying there’d been a loss of Rs 10.67 lakh crore in allotment of coal blocks, the draft Request For Proposal (RFP) for new allocations has strong clauses for cancellation for breaches …
India ranks 25th among 43 countries in the Asia-Pacific region Noting India continued to suffer from low but improving levels of economic freedom, the latest Index of Economic Freedom ranked the nation 120th globally and 25th among 43 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Though India is rated a "mostly unfree" …
Jayanthi Natarajan, it would appear, has done immense damage to the economy and to her own party's electoral prospects. She had, it has been reported, been sitting on hundreds of files for no plausible reason, delaying their clearance for months on end, some of them for years. This amounted to …
The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday clashed over a remark by BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi that under , the environment ministry charged a "tax" to clear files. The first to lead the attack on Modi was Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh. "Modi's comment on Jayanthi …
it's a right: Volunteers take part in the campaign against privatisation of water in Bangalore on Monday. In a bid to stop water privatisation in all its forms in Karnataka, ‘Namma Neeru’ – a month-long campaign – was launched on Monday. Freedom fighter H S Doreswamy flagged off the initiative …
The CBI on Monday filed a status report giving details of its probe in the irregularities in coal block allocations. The status report has been filed in a sealed envelope and the Supreme Court might go through it on January 15 when a bench headed by Justice R.M. Lodha will …
Allotments were made in good faith but could have been done in a better manner, Attorney-General tells Supreme Court A day after the Supreme Court’s observation that large investments made by companies could not be a defence against cancellation of coal block allocations, the government appeared to be accepting, albeit …
Court asks whether the government will revoke allocations or not, even as states blame Centre; CBI registers 2 new FIRs, to present status report today The fact that large amounts of money were invested in developing captive coal blocks is no defence if these were illegally allocated, the Supreme Court …
Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung on Monday warned power distribution companies that their licences may be cancelled if they didn’t abide by rules and cooperate with the CAG audit. In his address at the Delhi Assembly, Lt-Governor Jung said, “A CAG audit of the power distribution companies in the national capital from …
Focus Should Be On Constructing, Monitoring RWH Systems, Say Experts Aam Aadmi Party may be yet to achieve its goal of equitable water supply in Delhi but this can be worked out in the long run. It is hoped that AAP will take up rainwater harvesting in a big way …
Critics have called CM Arvind Kejriwal’s power subsidy “populist” and “economically unsound”. But there may be some good in what seems like his government’s hurried announcements. Energy experts are excited about what the future may bring given AAP’s intention of using solar energy in a big way. Thumbs are up …
Order of the High Court of Delhi regarding regulation of the corporate enterprise, 06/01/2014 in the matter of Association Of Unified Telecom vs Union of India & Others. Original Source: http://lobis.nic.in/dhc/PNJ/judgement/05-01-2014/PNJ06012014CW36732010.pdf
Gives clean chit to Shinde, other politicians; to file charges against 12 bureaucrats Reversing its earlier stand rejecting the inquiry commission report on the controversial Adarsh Housing Society scam, the Maharashtra Cabinet today decided to file charges against bureaucrats, even as it gave a clean chit to politicians named in …
Fulfilling yet another election promise, the Aam Aadmi Party government on Wednesday ordered a CAG audit into the finances of all the power companies operating in the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The decision to audit the private companies came a day after it announced a 50 per cent subsidy …
CM Defends Decision, Plans To Rope In IIT-D To Meter City New Delhi: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday defended his decision of providing up to 20kl of free water each month to some families by saying it was the government’s duty to ensure water supply to each resident of …
Deep in the forests of Borneo island, workmen from an Indonesian timber company fell a tree with a chainsaw, stick a red tag with a serial number onto it and attach a corresponding stub to the stump, reports BSS. This is all part of an arduous auditing process, one of …
