Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
The Madras high court has asked the Union and state forest ministries, Coastal Security Group, Indian Coast Guard, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute and the Tamil Nadu Coastal Zone Management Authority to "render assistance" to the fisheries department in monitoring the coast to prevent turtle deaths. This is to ensure …
Delhi High Court on Monday sought responses of the government, the city pollution panel and civic agencies of the national capital on the issue of air pollution here which it has taken up suo motu as a public interest litigation (PIL). A bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Sanjeev …
A division bench of chief justice L Narasimha Reddy and Justice Vikas Jain on Monday asked the Gaya DM to appear in person on February 13, 2015. The order was issued on a PIL filed by one Pratijnya on the issue of pollution of Falgu river. He stated that people …
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 …
The Chennai bench of the National Green Tribunal on Wednesday directed the Kerala Pollution Control Board (PCB) not to renew consent to quarries and crusher units at Mookunimala which haven't obtained environmental clearance. The NGT bench issued the order while considering a petition the Kerala high court had transferred to …
The Madras High Court has directed the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government to respond to a public interest litigation petition seeking a SIT probe into illegal beach sand mining in the State. The petitioner, a geologist, alleged massive corruption and illegalities in the mining of beach sand minerals such …
While hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on accessibility to affordable housing for Lower Income Group (LIG), Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and other needy citizens, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked all the government agencies to file their response in the matter. The petitioner, Consumer Online Foundation, which is …
Ganga will be totally cleaned by 2018, the Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court, which had sought to know whether the government was serious about completing the clean-up exercise during its current tenure or wanted to keep it alive as a poll issue for the next general elections. “Absolutely …
The Allahabad High Court has asked the District Magistrate and Chief Medical Officer of Sonbhadra to form a committee to look into the issue of arsenic contamination of drinking water in several villages in the district. It has also directed the Indian Institute of Toxicology to prepare a report in …
Aspirin is one of world’s most popped pills, the answer to maladies ranging from simple aches and pains or even a mild fever. However, this drug may soon be prescribed for a far more severe condition if initial observational studies are validated. Cancer Research UK is funding a 12-year global …
Even as the Municipal Corporation is all set to float tenders for the setting up of the Solid Waste Management Plant at Bhagtanwala tomorrow, the Amritsar-based Pollution Control Committee is gearing up to move the National Green Tribunal, opposing the move on the ground that the dumpyard site violates the …
The Bombay high court has referred to the chief justice a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by environmental activists against government departments concerned and the promoter of the seaplane services proposed from Juhu to Gangapur dam. Activists Jitendra Bhave and Jagbir Singh had filed the PIL 10 days ago against …
The Centre has told the Supreme Court that instead fixing 15-year-old limit to identify polluting vehicles, fitness testing of such a vehicle will prove whether it has "reached the end of its life or not." Giving a ray of hope to persons, owning private vehicles which are more than 15 …
China's top court issued a judicial interpretation on how to handle civil environmental cases involving public interest litigations on Tuesday, a week after the country's new Environment Protection Law was effective. Although the judicial interpretation is only targeting the cases relating to public interest litigations, "it is a timely manner …
A lawsuit jointly filed by two environmental protection organizations against individuals responsible for ecological damage in Nanping, Fujian province, has become China's first public interest litigation since China's revised Environmental Protection Law came into effect on Thursday. According to Liu Xiang, a lawyer representing the Beijing-based NGO Friends of Nature, …
A court in eastern China has issued the country's biggest environmental fine resulting from public interest litigation against polluters as China tries to crack down on widespread environmental degradation. The official Xinhua News Agency said the Jiangsu provincial high court on Tuesday ordered six companies to pay 160 million yuan …
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Thursday allowed the organisers to hold the prestigious Kala Ghoda cultural festival in the city for nine days from February 7 next, while ensuring proper hygiene, regulating collection of garbage and seeking strict implementation of noise pollution rules. A bench of justices V M …
Commenting that human beings were the “biggest enemy” of the environment and monuments, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Chief secretary to convene a high level meeting to consider steps to be taken to deal with the 2km long “toxic” water body created due to sewage at Tughlakabad …
Hearing a PIL alleging that the Ganga has become reddish and blackish due to increasing pollution, the Allahabad high court on Thursday directed setting up of a committee headed by Commissioner Allahabad division to monitor the situation and apprise the court the reason for increasing level of pollution in the …
Far from offering suitable birth control methods to men and women at different points in their lives, India’s programme focuses on female tubectomy carried out in substandard camps. (Original Source)
