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 …
The norms for construction of all-weather roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) are not being followed in Uttar Pradesh, a major beneficiary of the scheme and erring officials continue to work on projects that were dubbed by the Central monitoring agency as poor. Based on random inspection …
MUMBAI: Rampant, illegal sand-dredging, in contravention of rules laid down by the state government in its tender agreement with the dredgers, was witnessed on Tuesday when TOI visited Bankot Creek in Raigad along with environmental activists. Locals, who have been agitating against the dredging and have even filed a PIL …
The Public Interest Litigation (PIL) regarding purchase of Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) by the Electricity Department has been dismissed by the Bombay High Court at Goa. The High Court had taken cognisance of an article written by John Eric Gomes that highlighted a couple of issues such as frequent power …
A petition challenging the ban order on sand transportation to other states was dismissed by the High Court on Monday. Binny Abraham of Puttur had challenged the order issued by the Deputy Director of Mines, Mangalore, on August 8, 2009, banning the transportation of sand outside the State, stating that …
Control measures including different landing procedures and land use management considered As the Delhi High Court provided a six-month relief to the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) by lifting the ban on use of new runway (29-11) at night, the IGI Airport authorities have drawn up plans to reduce noise …
The mining scam unfolding in Orissa shows companies, big and small, have been illegally extracting ores worth hundreds of crores of rupees for years. The state vigilance department began probing the scam after the opposition highlighted irregularities in mining in July last year. Till date it has registered 11 cases …
Mumbai: Confirming the allegations made in a public interest litigation (PIL), the director of Sanjay Gandhi National Park on Wednesday told the Bombay high court that over 800 flats allotted to those evicted from the park, have been illegally sold or leased out. Janhit Manch, a local NGO, had initiated …
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 2284 OF 2010 is directed against the judgment of Madras High Court passed onOctober 31, 2008 whereby a writ petition in the nature of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the appellant
Opinion divided on the use of plastic component, especially as the High Court has said there should be natural restoration Months after the High Court called for the revival of water bodies based on a public interest litigation (PIL), the Delhi government in a meeting on Thursday approved a Rs …
The MCD has claimed before the Delhi High Court that out of the total 9,395 trees to be deconcretized as per court orders, work on 5,223 trees has been completed and the remaining ones would be deconcretized shortly. After going through the status report submitted by MCD, a division bench …
Mohamed Imranullah S. MADURAI: The Madras High Court Bench here has issued notice to Debendranath Sarangi, Principal Secretary, Department of Environment and Forests; A.S. Balanathan, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, and M. Vallalar, Dindigul Collector, in a contempt of court petition filed against them. S. Jayachandran, an environmental activist from …
Ranchi, Feb. 17: Installation of cellphone towers without permission of proper authorities has been brought under the scanner of the Jharkhand High Court. Numerous mobile towers have been erected across the length and breadth of the city without adhering to the norms for personal gain by cellular companies has been …
NEW DELHI: Suggesting the imposition of a "congestion fee" on private cars entering certain parts of Delhi as one way to ease the nightmarish traffic situation on city roads, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday made a decisive intervention to regulate movement of vehicles in the capital. A full HC …
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay High Court seeking proper rehabilitation of a King Cobra that is under the care of the Solapur Municipal Corporation (SMC). The cobra was rescued from a monk and handed over to SMC by forest department officials in 2007. Petitioner …
Mohamed Imranullah S. Officials asked to clear an open drainage channel MADURAI: The Tirunelveli Deputy Director of Health and Kadayanallur Municipal Commissioner appeared before the Madras High Court Bench here on Thursday during the hearing of a public interest litigation petition alleging unhygienic conditions leading to the death of 31 …
Feb. 4: The apathy of the Centre and the Delhi government towards improving the condition of Yamuna flowing just in the middle of the expanded national capital irked the Supreme Court on Thursday so much that it described the river a "mere ganda nullah (a dirty drain)". As amicus curiae, …
The water-bearing capacity of Sukhna Lake has come down from 1074.4 hectare metre to 513.28 hectare metre in 47 years (from 1958 to 2005). This was submitted by the Chandigarh Administration in a detailed reply to the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The Administration also claimed that the ever-rising level …
