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 …
A Public Interest Litigation has been filed at the Madras High Court bench here to curb alleged illegal sand quarrying activities in Karur district. The petitioner, P. Ettikan, from Karur, has claimed that the court order prohibiting quarrying of sand for more than five years has not been implemented in …
Nearly 323 mining lease applications are pending for renewal The state steel & mines department is set to miss the deadline stipulated by the Odisha High Court (HC) for disposing off pending applications for mine lease renewal. In an interim order delivered on December 21 last year, the HC had …
The PIL contends that if the road was to be built many date palm trees will have to be chopped off and local farmers would face heavy loss Gujarat high court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre over a public interest litigation (PIL) objecting to laying down of a …
New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Wednesday decided to focus on steps taken by the Delhi government to regulate sale of junk food in schools and nearby premises. A division bench comprising Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice V K Jain asked the state government if it had issued …
Steel mills still operating at 50% capacity due to shortage in supply of iron ore Restoration of normalcy in supply of iron ore to steel mills in and around Karnataka might take more time if the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) accepts the request for reclassification of mines. Currently, CEC, following …
Mumbai: The Maharashtra water resources department has willingly agreed to release Rs 114 crore to FA Enterprises, contractor of the controversial Kondhane dam project in Karjat taluka, barely months after the state government had scrapped the contract. Last year, the government announced it was cancelling the contract following a TOI …
Mumbai: The state water resources department is ready to release Rs 114 crore to the contractor of the Kondhane dam project in Karjat. FA Enterprises, the contractor of the project, had filed a petition in the Bombay high court in January stating that the Konkan Irrigation Development Corporation (KIDC), water …
Guwahati: The famed abode on one-horned Indian rhino and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kaziranga National Park in Assam has faced tough challenge to keep rampaging rhino poachers under check basically because of growing number of settlements suspected illegal migrants from Bangladesh around the Park’s core area. The poachers have …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre and four states asking about steps taken to prevent death of elephants on railway tracks passing through their habitat or cutting across their migration route. A bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra issued notices to the …
PIL against officials for issuing NOCs to bring jumbos from other states Elephants being used in various ceremonies and processions have for long raised the heckles of environmentalists, on the grounds that the ‘gentle giants’ are subjected to inhuman treatment in the name of culture and tradition. Compassion Unlimited Plus …
Two public interest litigation petitions have been filed in the Madras High Court Bench here — one challenging a notification issued by the Centre on October 15, laying down guidelines for tourism activities around tiger reserves, and another to quash separate proceedings issued by the State Forest Department on February …
The Bombay High Court has asked Maharashtra Pollution Control Board and Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) to urgently check pollution in Godavari river which originates at Trimbakeshwar, near Nashik, a major pilgrim centre. Perusing the affidavit filed by NMC on February 24, a bench headed by Justice Abhay Oka observed that …
Taking suo motu cognisance of a letter seeking action against renowned pharmaceutical companies for looting cancer patients by printing inflated maximum retail price (MRP) on medicines, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today put the state of Punjab on notice. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri and …
PANJIM: The affidavit by Goa Foundation in the PIL on illegal mining that is likely to come up Wednesday referring to raising contractors said, “As the case of Badruddin Mavani has shown, eventually powerful actors make deals with the owners in which 95 per cent of the income of the …
The Supreme Court on Friday stopped construction and development work of industrial units at the Adani group-owned Adani Port special economic zone (APSEZ) at Mundra in Kutch pending clearances from the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). However, it allowed already functional units to continue business operations within APSEZ …
Goa’s mining industry took their urgent plea to the Prime Minister on Monday seeking his help to resume mining in the state. In a memorandum presented to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, an organisation representing workers and other mining beneficiaries pleaded “an affirmative political consensus between the state and the central …
Hearing a PIL, the Calcutta High Court on Monday inquired about the figures of public transport which were 15 years old, banned by the transport department. The division bench headed by Chief Justice Arun Mishra also asked the state to give details about the figures of autos which have been …
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday stayed commercial operations and development activities of 12 companies located in the Adani Group owned Adani Port Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) in Mundra taluka of Kutch district, till environmental clearance is granted to them by Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). The directions …
PANJIM/NEW DELHI: The Goa Foundation PIL which resulted in suspension of all mining operations in Goa is listed before the Forest Bench of the Supreme Court for Friday, but it may or may not come up as six other cases are listed before it for consideration by the Bench that …
The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the state government and the civic body to file a reply to a petition seeking action from civic authorities to ensure prompt measures to tackle dengue in the city and take steps to make it a notifiable disease. Demanding the state government and …
