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 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 …
CBI has alleged that Hindalco was wrongfully allocated the Talabira II coal block in Orissa Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a fresh case in the coal block allocation scam against industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and former coal secretary P C Parekh. CBI has also named aluminium rolling company Hindalco …
The Supreme Court has asked the Madhya Pradesh government to maintain status quo in processing applications and granting fresh mining leases in the state, which is going to assembly polls in November. A bench headed by chief Justice P Sathasivam has sought response from the state government, Election Commission and …
The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front had announced an indefinite siege of the Kerala state secretariat until the chiefminister owned responsibility for the "solar scam" and resigned. The calling off of this indefinitesiege within 30 hours raises a number of questions, including about the political conduct of …
Gujarat high court on Wednesday issued notices to the state government and agriculture minister Babu Bokhiria over three petitions demanding revocation of suspension of his sentence in Rs 54-crore Porbandar mining scam. Justice S G Shah has sought replies from both the parties by October 17 on demand that the …
Issue likely to be raised in Legislative Assembly session starting today After months of inaction against politicians allegedly involved in illegal mining, the Goa State Vigilance Department early this week, based on a complaint filed in 2011 by activist and now Congress spokesperson Sudeep Tamhankar, filed an FIR naming two …
Environment and forests minister Hasan Mahmud on Sunday slammed Transparency International, Bangladesh for its recent investigation report on the government’s climate change trust fund utilisation. He termed the report ‘a fancied, wrong one prepared without any study’ while addressing at a roundtable on ‘Narrowing the demand-supply gap with commercial biogas …
Transparency International Bangladesh in a report said Thursday that the government lacked transparency in climate project selection, approval, funding and implementation. In 2011, out of 5,000 project proposals, PKSF initially selected 53 NGOS drawing widespread criticism, it said. Later, PKSF approved 63 projects, 10 of which are non existent, managing …
Order of the Gujarat High Court on allotment of land for Gujarat International Finance Tech (GIFT) City project dated 04/10/2013 in the matter of Pathan Mohammed Suleman Rehmatk Vs State of Gujarat. Original Source: http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/85729342/ Find more on the project http://giftgujarat.in/gift/genesis.aspx
Centre has let the States to decide their own criteria for identifying beneficiaries The S.R. Hashim Committee report on urban poor has been put in the cold storage by the UPA government. The report, submitted in December 2012 set out the criteria by which the poor living in urban areas …
2010 Games Brought Road Widening, Relaying & Streetscaping Into Focus Delhi has seen massive improvement in infrastructure in the past five years. The growth—largely spurred by the Commonwealth Games held in 2010—saw the government focus on widening and relaying of roads, streetscaping, construction of flyovers and building overbridges. Agencies have …
This rapid survey is carried out to know the people’s perception on the changes with the suspension of mining in Goa, by way of reviewing print media and conducting a primary survey. Goa’s mining operations were suspended first by the Goa Government on 10.09.2012 after the Justice M. B Shah …
This rapid survey is carried out to know the people’s perception on the changes with the suspension of mining in Goa, by way of reviewing print media and conducting a primary survey. Goa’s mining operations were suspended first by the Goa Government on 10.09.2012 after the Justice M. B Shah …
In the wake of the CBI arresting two former bureaucrats and two MLAs in the illegal iron ore mining cases, the mines and geology department has initiated action against its officials involved in the matter. The CM had directed the departments, whose officers have been named in Lokayukta Justice Santosh …
The Mines and Geology Department has named six of its former directors and joint directors as being involved in 20 different cases of illegal mining over the past six years in the State. The names include those of M E Shivalingamurthy (IAS), Gangaram Baderia (IAS), K S Prabhakar (IAS), Basappa …
Commission's term ends on October 15 and it has already submitted two reports The third and final report of the M B Shah Commission, which is probing illegal mining activity in Goa, would be submitted as early as possible, the retired justice heading the panel, said. He said the Commission, …
The East Godavari district administration has written a letter to the State Government to cancel the NOC granted for mining operations in two villages following irregularities. East Godavari district collector Neetu Kumari Prasad yesterday said a letter has been written to the Government to cancel the no objection certificate (NOC) …
The PIL on massive irrigation scam of Rs72,000 crore in Vidarbha took an interesting turn when Maharashtra Forest Department admitted that as many as 76 out of 90 irrigation projects of the region were stuck with them for formalities. It, however, blamed Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation (VIDC) for pendency of …
