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 …
Law enforcement authorities have shown no serious interest or inclination to completely ban the use of polythene and plastic Anindo Dey | TNN Jaipur: Despite a ban on plastic bags in the state, there seems to be no respite to Mount Abu from these hazardous wastes. With a rush of …
The death of a tiger last month, two and a half years after it was brought to Sariska, proves the National Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan is not safe for the big cat. The death also brought to light little action has been taken on the recommendations of the Tiger Task …
THE DEATH of a tiger last month, two and a half years after it was brought to Sariska, proves the National Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan is not safe for the big cat. The death also brought to light little action has been taken on the recommendations of the Tiger Task …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Monday said that it was ready for any probe by the Centre into alleged diversion of funds and non-implementation of rural employment guarantee scheme MGNREGA in the state. This was stated by panchayati raj minister Prafulla Samal while reacting to the Supreme Court's direction for …
Raising serious concern over the proposal for another power tariff hike by the Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB), aggrieved organisations and individuals have decided to move the Gauhati High Court with a PIL against the earlier tariff hike of 13 paise per unit in June 2010. Engineer JN Khataniar, Consumers
The death of a tiger last month, two and a half years after it was brought to Sariska, proves the National Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan is not safe for the big cat. The death also brought to light little action has been taken on the recommendations of the Tiger Task …
This article will present basic facts on limitations and efficacy of large water storage versus small dams & popularly known as rain water harvesting structures (rwhs) for recharging ground water and suggests serious examination of mother statements about relation of forests and hydrologic elements.
The bitter feud on tiger tourism inside core areas of national parks in the State got even murkier with a volunteer activist expressing fear to his life, while citing the contents of an e-mail forwarded by PCCF (Wildlife) HS Pabla to tourism entrepreneurs. The activist not only has demanded security …
To defeat a public interest litigation that seeks to ban tourism in core areas of tiger reserves, the Madhya Pradesh forest department has clandestinely sought the help of very people whose activities endanger the wild cat. Within days of the PIL in the high court, MP
Social activists have moved court to scrap the Lavasa township project near Pune. The public interest petition filed in the Bombay High Court says the project does not have the mandatory environmental clearance from the Union environment ministry, and hence is liable to be cancelled. The petition alleged the Maharashtra …
Sand dredgers will soon be back in business along the Bankot creek bordering coastal Raigad and Ratnagiri districts in Maharashtra. They had been silent for over a month after the Bombay High Court banned sand mining in the state on September 24, after people who mine sand manually filed a …
Suzlon Energy and Lavasa Corporation are among the companies named in the bribery scam that led to the arrest of eight top officials of public sector banks and financial firms on November 24. The companies were allegedly raising loans from a Mumbai-based private financial firm that bribed the senior officials …
HC asks for status report on CRZ violation on Nariman Point-Cuffe Parade stretch Express News Service The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), city collector and additional collector (Encroachments Removal) to file a status report on the alleged unauthorised constructions being carried out along the …
Social activists have moved court to scrap the Lavasa township project near Pune. The public interest petition filed in the Bombay High Court says the project does not have the mandatory environmental clearance from the Union environment ministry, and hence is liable to be cancelled.
After years of repeated pleas and a PIL in the High Court, residents staying along the sea shores in South Mumbai have finally got the BMC to take up the task of cleaning the shores. Residents have been complaining of garbage getting accumulated close to the shores due to currents. …
CONSTRUCTION activities at Mundra special economic zone (SEZ) in Gujarat’s Kachchh district had begun even before the project’s public hearing, the procedural step towards environmental clearance for a project where affected people give their verdict. More than 1,000 hectares (ha) of mangrove have been destroyed by the Mundra SEZ, which …
THE Nagpur bench of the Mumbai high court has ordered restoration of the world’s third largest meteorite lake in the Buldhana district of Maharashtra. A recent study by a group appointed by the court, pointed out that Lonar lake is a dumping ground for raw sewage from localities in the …
