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 …
WP (PIL) No. 137 of 2009 by Shri Ram Lal and others vs. Union of India in the High Court of Uttrakhand at Nainital regarding Environmental Clearance to M/s Alaknanda Hydro Power Company for Srinagar Hydroelectric Project at Pauri District on Alaknanda River - Clarification regarding - Letter.
JAIPUR: The problems for the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) Ring Road project sees no end as the farmers, who surrendered their land and had taken reservation letters from the authorities, will now file a public interest litigation (PIL) on Tuesday. Ring Road Sangarsh Samiti, president, Badri Prasad Sharma, said, "We …
Irked over non-filing of a response with regard to the steps taken for the launch of eco cabs, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday directed the director of Haryana urban bodies department to be present before the court on the next date of hearing. A division bench comprising …
Seeking to abolish the practice of manual scavenging in the country, as warranted by the law and apex court judgments, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday pulled up the Indian Railways for delaying installation of bio-toilets in its trains. “There are almost 43,000 coaches being operated by the Railways and, …
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today refused to vacate the stay over the construction of Tata Camelot project. A division bench comprising acting Chief Justice A K Goel and Justice A K Mittal today declined to vacate stay over the construction of the project after the counsel for Tata …
Lucknow:The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court hearing the National Rural Health Mission scam in the state on Tuesday posted the case for July 28. A division bench of Justice Pradeep Kant and Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, heard the petition on Tuesday and posted the matter for another hearing …
Mumbai: In light of the ministry of food and civil supplies’ failure to implement the ban on bullock carts transporting kerosene on Mumbai’s streets despite the government decision two years ago to do so, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has filed a public interest litigation …
CUTTACK: The expansion plan of Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL) for its refinery and captive power plant at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district has hit a major roadblock. The Orissa High Court on Tuesday upheld the Centre
JODHPUR: Taking a serious note of illegal mining at the prohibited area near the Air Force station in Jaisalmer, a division bench of Rajasthan High Court has directed the chief secretary along with the district collector and superintendent of police, Jaisalmer, to ensure that no mining activity takes place in …
The Orissa High Court on Tuesday rejected the plea of Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) for a six-fold expansion of its one-million-tonne per annum alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa's Kalahandi district. Vedanta had filed a petition in the HC on November 12, 2010, praying to quash the order of the …
The spat between residents of Sukhdev Vihar and the Delhi government over the proposed waste-to-energy plant witnessed another twist during the ongoing hearing in the Delhi High Court on Monday. While the counsel for the Residents
Admitting before a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court that carbonated drinks and junks foods were harmful to health, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Monday informed the Bench that it had initiated steps to ban sale of these two consumables in and around educational institutions across …
Waste-to-energy plant z Residents of colony filed PIL in HC claiming that the plant was too close and posed an environment threat The Delhi government has filed a detailed counter to the PIL by Sukhdev Vihar residents who had claimed that the construction of a waste-to-energy plant in the locality …
IT SEEMS elections for local bodies in Andhra Pradesh will not be held until contentions over reservation quotas are resolved. A day after the State Election Commission (SEC) announced holding panchayat polls by the second week of July, a division bench of Andhra Pradesh High Court stayed the elections. It …
LUCKNOW: A PIL has been filed in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court seeking quashing of land acquisition and plot allotment to dubious companies in Noida. The PIL is likely to come up for hearing on July 14. The PIL has been filed by Nawab Singh Nagar, a …
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Pesticide manufacturers have submitted before the Supreme Court that the plea of CPI-M activists for a ban on Endosulfan is politically motivated and sought dismissal of the petition. In its affidavit, the Pesticide Manufacturers & Formulators Association rejected the allegations made by Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) that there …
Inhabitants of the several villages, located near the Hansi-Butana canal on the Punjab-Haryana border, will file a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Punjab and Haryana High Court against the construction of the Hansi-Butana canal and the 3.75-km concrete wall being built by Haryana along its embankments. Baltej Singh, sarpanch, …
