The High Court division bench headed by Chief Justice P D Dinakaran has quashed the order of a single judge which had prohibited mining in forest areas of the State.

June 4: The AP High Court on Thursday warned it will take action on officials of the mines and geology department who conducted public auction of the sand reaches in the Penna River without obtaining a ground water feasibility report.

The High Court division bench headed by Justice V Gopala Gowda will take up the matter relating to cutting of trees and granting of land inside Lalbagh Botanical Garden to Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), on Friday.

However, the court refused to interfere in the vacation division bench order asking the authorities not to cut trees without permission from the Tree Officer.

THE High Court directive to the government to set up food courts in every district and to appoint an adequate number of food analysts and inspectors within a year brings to the fore once again an issue of serious public concern.

Despite the Supreme Court

Farmers claim Nano

The Delhi High Court has held the media cannot be restrained from reporting confidential information of a company pertaining to its upcoming projects and dealings with other companies. The court passed the order while dismissing a plea of petroleum company Petronet lng seeking to restrain a website from publishing information which

Industrial town spent Rs 2 crore on flow meters that no one monitors THE industrial units of Pali town in Rajasthan were made to install meters to measure the amount of effluents they discharge. But no one is monitoring them. The Rajasthan high court ordered installation of flow meters in April 2008 to check industrial effluents from entering the Bandi river. It said the effluents

Modernization of Mumbai zoo threatens botanical garden A RS 433-crore zoo modernization plan of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai has come in for criticism. Citizen action groups and non-profits alleged the plan would lead to the destruction of the 21-hectare (ha) Jijamata Udyan where the zoo is located. The corporation denied this. The groups claimed the corporation had