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 …
Idol worship has been in the practice in India since ancient time. In present scenario, metals, ornaments, oily substances, synthetic colours,chemical are used to make polish and decorate idols for worship and when theseidols are immersed our aquatic and surrounding environment get severally affected. Hence, there is urgent need to …
The High Court yesterday issued a rule upon the Government to explain by three weeks as to why it should not be directed to remove a salt industry from the Buriganga river at Lalbagh area in the capital. A bench of the High Court (HC) Division of the Supreme Court …
Utkarsh Anand As groundwater depletes in the Capital at an alarming rate, Delhi is all set to have its own regulatory body to combat the twin problem of paucity of water and illegal extraction of groundwater. The new policy will be notified next week. A Delhi government affidavit, submitted in …
Bench directs Government to file a counter affidavit by June 15 Agriculturists of Periyar River Basin Circle may lose 4,000 mcft due to change in procedure
MUMBAI: The state government will request the union government to allow relaxation of silence zone norms for 15 days in a year in every district. In an affidavit filed before the Bombay high court on Wednesday in the Shivaji Park silence zone case, the state government has said that it …
Globally, a majority of people including Indians are not aware that India has wild lions. The tiger, which replaced the lion as the national animal in the early 1970s, does hog the headlines and therefore has a much stronger link to India and an overwhelming presence in public conscience. The …
MUMBAI: A Bombay high court bench of justices FI Rebello and A A Sayed passed an interim order on Wednesday, directing that Shivaji Park and its periphery be declared a "silence zone", and banning the use of loudspeakers in the area from 10 pm to 6 am due to the …
Over 100,000 commercial and private vehicles will be off Tripura’s roads soon. On March 22, the Agartala High Court ordered the state government to withdraw vehicles in use for 15 years or more in a phased manner; they comprise more than a third of Tripura’s 288,000 vehicles. The court also …
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today expressed its deep concern over the deteriorating condition of Sukhna Lake. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Mukul Mudgal and Justice Jasbir Singh directed the UT Administration to make all possible efforts to ensure that the lake was protected from deterioration. Meanwhile, senior …
Allows Company To Build The Cement Plant While Protecting The Reservoir TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ahmedabad: In a huge relief for Nirma Ltd, Gujarat High Court on Monday gave a green signal to the company for construction of its cement plant in Mahuva in Bhavnagar district on certain conditions. This has …
Ahhmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Thursday reserved its order on the PIL filed against setting up of a cement plant by Nirma Ltd in the coastal region of Mahuva in Saurashtra. The Nirma counsel, however, hinted that this was a
Mohamed Imranullah S. MADURAI: The Madras High Court Bench here on Thursday restrained the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) and the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests from granting environmental clearance to a proposed distillery at Vadaseri in Orathanadu taluk of Thanjavur district. A Division Bench, comprising Justice F.M. …
Hearing in SEZ petitions was adjourned once again on Thursday on request of the SEZ stakeholders and Court will hear the petitions next on April 27. The SEZ promoters have challenged the notices issued by Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) for withdrawal of land allotted to them. A batch of …
AN ECOLOGICAL DISASTER AWAITS MUMBAI AS SLUMS PROLIFERATE ALL ALONG ITS CREEKS, KILLING INVALUABLE MANGROVES Standing on the terrace of his residential complex at Link Road, Harish Pandey points to the twokilometre-long slum settlement snaking through the lush green mangroves adjoining Gorai creek. Around 8,000 illegal shacks have come up …
What led you to file the public interest litigation (pil)? On July 26, 2005, there was a deluge in Mumbai. It caught the administration unawares; all utility services broke down. I was one of those stranded, who spent the night under a flyover. I started wading back home at about …
Mumbai: While the Bombay high court is hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), challenging the redevelopment of Wankhede stadium, the petitioners on Tuesday brought to notice 40 more violations in the redevelopment. Social activist Amit Maru has now also sought action against the Board for Control of Cricket in India …
IN WHAT could strengthen hands of those who maintain that NREGA programme was not being implemented properly, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that the money earmarked for the project was not percolating down to the intended beneficiaries.
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has asked the central government as well as state government to show whether environment and wildlife clearances were given by authorities to big industrial houses for setting up units near Gulf of Kutch. Acting on two separate PILs, a division bench headed by Chief Justice …
Mumbai: The state government will hold a public meeting in Jaitapur (in Ratnagiri district) on May 16 to discuss the environmental repercussions of the controversial nuclear power project proposed for the town. The Union environment ministry will take into account the suggestions and objections raised in the meeting before giving …
