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 …
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party on Monday kept its promise of free water —20 kilolitres per month or an average of about 660 litres a day per family — but it came with a rider and a whammy for bigger water consumers. The rider is that if consumption exceeds 20 …
National Green Tribunal will deliver the verdict on the case on January 6 The alleged felling of 267 trees in South Delhi’s Vasant Kunj for the controversial Andheria More-Mahipalpur road-widening project has compelled environmentalist and Delhi University Associate Professor Sonya Ghosh to take up the case with the National Green …
Govt In For More Trouble, BJP To File 3 Writ Petitions Apublic interest litigation has been filed before the Bombay high court seeking directions to the CBI to consider the judicial commission report in the Adarsh case. It also asks that the investigation agency prosecute the state cabinet for attempting …
Nervous Govt Hurries Bill Through LS New Delhi: After a 46-year wait, India is set to get a Lokpal after the Lok Sabha on Wednesday took barely an hour to pass the landmark legislation to create a powerful anti-corruption ombudsman amid sustained disruptions by anti-Telangana MPs. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi …
After eight unsuccessful attempts, India took the historic step of enacting the Lokpal law on Wednesday, by which an anti-corruption watchdog would be established that will have in its purview even the office of the Prime Minister. The Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill, 2013, was passed by voice vote amid a …
Sending out a clear message against corruption in high places ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the Rajya Sabha today passed by voice vote a Bill for setting up a Lokpal with vast powers to look into complaints against the Prime Minister, his Cabinet colleagues and Central Government officials, …
Prime Minister included in its ambit with conditions; Anna Hazare thanks government In a show of solidarity, marred only by Samajwadi Party walk-out, the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed by voice vote the historic Lokpal Bill that provides for setting up an independent ombudsman to investigate charges of corruption against …
The Lok Sabha will take up the Lokpal Bill debate on Wednesday. The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill 2011 which provides for formation of an anti-graft ombudsman. The Lok Sabha will take up the Lokpal Bill debate on Wednesday. Social activist Anna Hazare’s supporters started …
Parliament on Wednesday passed the Lokpal bill with the Lok Sabha adopting the measure as amended by the Rajya Sabha after a short discussion, amid the din created by members for and against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. Members from Samajwadi Party and Shiv Sena, opposed the bill and staged …
A Bill to provide for the establishment of a body of Lokpal for the Union and Lokayukta for States to inquire into allegations of corruption against certain public functionaries and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. This document contains the text of the Bill as passed by Lok Sabha …
Parliament’s standing committee on finance has pulled up the government for failing to curb inflation and inflationary expectations due to lack of appropriate intervention in the market and asked it to formulate a comprehensive food management and pricing policy. The committee, headed by senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, has asked …
As the construction sector grows, illegal sand and granite mining can only be expected to increase. From what can be seen until now, honest officers who have taken action against the sand mafia in their respective districts in different states have either been transferred or suspended. The politician-sand mafia nexus …
India has been ranked 94, while Pakistan, improving on its last year's status by 12 places has been scored 127 India has been reportedly ranked lower in corruption than neighbouring Pakistan in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2013. The Index scores 177 countries and territories on a scale from 0 …
Samaj Parivartan Samudaya, Jana Sangram Parishad and the National Committee for Protection of Natural Resources have demanded that the State legislature debate issues such as illegal mining, land grab and corruption. Addressing presspersons here on Sunday, samudaya founder-president S.R. Hiremath said that the legislators participating in the winter session of …
Only 15 mines have resumed mining with a combined capacity of 5.72 million tonnes per annum Even as the Supreme Court allowed the reopening of iron-ore mines in Karnataka seven months ago, most are still waiting for regulatory approvals to restart operations. Only 15 (12 from Category A and three …
The action comes on the directives of the Supreme Court The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered 22 cases against companies involved in alleged exports of 2.1 million tonnes of iron ore without valid permits from Belekeri port in Karnataka. The action comes on the directives of the Supreme …
Corruption, an undeniable reality in the health sector, is arguably the most serious ethical crisis in medicine today. However, it remains poorly addressed in scholarly journals and by professional associations of physicians and bioethicists. This article provides an overview of the forms and dynamics of corruption in healthcare as well …
The Kerala government today appointed retired high court judge Justice G Sivarajan as the head of the Judicial Commission to probe the solar panel scam, after the high court refused to part with the services of a sitting judge. The high court informed the government that due to shortage of …
A former Ecuadorean judge testified on Wednesday that he ghost-wrote rulings for a judge who ordered Chevron Corp to pay $19 billion to villagers whose land had been polluted by oil exploration. The former judge testified at a trial in New York in which Chevron accuses U.S. lawyer Steven Donziger …
The growing importance of emerging markets means their impact is felt broadly around the world. Thus it is important companies from emerging markets do all they can to stop corruption from being a part of their business. As markets become global, the ethical and transparency standards of companies must become …
