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 …
Ban on plastic is necessary for future generations to sustain. Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday urged that both the AP and Telangana states should take initiation on the ban of plastic usage at shrines in their respective states. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Thottathil B Radhakrishnan and …
State is looking at charging visitors to the Rs. 3,600 crore project, HC told The Maharashtra government informed the Bombay High Court on Thursday it has received all environmental clearances for the Rs. 3,600-crore Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj statue in the middle of the sea and that it intends to charge …
High Court today sought affidavit from the authorities disclosing therein the details of amount received and payment made for the supply, purchase and procurement of nutritional items for Anganwari Centers in the State. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Alok Aradhe in a significant direction sought …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated 07/09/2018 regarding sealing of unauthorized constructions in Delhi. The Supreme Court appointed Monitoring Committee in its report said that it is not getting adequate support from the executing agencies …
Even as the festival season is about to begin from first week of September, anti-noise pollution activists are up in arms against the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for only notifying 110 silence zones in the city in the past one year. Sumaira Abdulali, Convenor of Awaaz foundation said that she …
Justice Sikri said, "Diwali is a festival of lights. Firecrackers are not necessary to bring people together. People can be brought together by distributing and sharing sweets also." The Supreme Court yesterday was told by the firecracker manufacturers that firecrackers alone were not the sole reason for rising pollution levels …
Jodhpur: Rajasthan High Court has issued notices to the state pollution control board seeking reply in four weeks about the efforts to stop the pollution in Rajasthan Canal and Gang Canal. The division bench of Justice Nirmaljit Kaur and Justice Dinesh Mehta issued these notices while hearing a PIL drawing …
The court was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Jainendra Baxi, a film director, through his lawyer Aditya Pratap. The petition stated that there was no law that prohibits people from carrying their own food inside the theatres. The Bombay High Court on Wednesday said by not allowing …
The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas on Monday told the Supreme Court that it would not allow sale and manufacturing of Bharat Stage-VI (BS-VI) non-compliant vehicles across the country from April 1, 2020, but registration of these vehicles can continue till May-end. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas …
NEW DELHI: The blanket ban on protests around Delhi's iconic Jantar Mantar was on Monday lifted by the Supreme Court (SC) which said peaceful protests in the area are allowed. The top court also ordered Delhi Police to frame specific guidelines on which areas around the building are allowed for …
The Delhi High Court today criticised the Centre's National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) for converting the city into "one big traffic zone", instead of de-congesting it. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar said that instead of building more housing space, flyovers and …
BENGALURU: Wondering as to why the government has not been able to clean up the highly polluted Bellandur Lake for the past three years, the high court on Thursday directed that a senior official should appear before it on Friday and explain what’s happening with the waterbody. “For three years, …
PIL petition says survey, removal of encroachments not carried out in the last 10 years With a view to protecting all 39,202 waterbodies in the State, as mentioned in the government’s policy note for the year 2017-18, a public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court …
This was mentioned in a counter-affidavit filed by NHAI director in the High Court in response to a batch of PILs and writ petitions challenging the project CHENNAI: Contradicting the claim of Tamil Nadu government, the project implementation director of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) submitted in the Madras …
The Delhi High Court today asked the Aam Aadmi Party government how it could defend more construction in the national capital while pulling it up for not taking steps to decongest it and curbing pollution. "How can you defend more construction? You should be looking at decongesting the city. Are …
After last year’s Supreme Court order, Irdai has now mandated that every vehicle must have a valid PUC certificate on the date of renewal of motor insurance policy The insurance regulator has made it mandatory to show a valid pollution under control (PUC) certificate at the time of renewal of …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Pankaj Sinha Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/07/2018 regarding a number of legislations discriminatory to leprosy affected persons. Some of the directions issued by the Supreme Court are the following: (i) The Union of India and the …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court has asked the state government to file an affidavit in response to a PIL filed by the RSS-affiliated farmers' union Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, which has opposed the compulsory crop insurance policy on farmers obtaining crop loans. The petitioner has demanded that the insurance policy should not …
Mumbai, The Bombay High Court today said the government’s ‘Make In India‘ function at Girgaon Chowpatty beach in south Mumbai in 2016, which had to be abandoned after a huge fire gutted the stage, caused “considerable destruction and damage” to the beach. It also asked the Maharashtra government to repair …
KOCHI: The Kerala high court on Wednesday lauded the efforts taken by the state government and its health department in tackling Nipah virus outbreak. A division bench comprising of acting chief justice Hrishikesh Roy and justice CT Ravikumar also appreciated the efforts made by the central government in rendering assistance …
