HC forms panel to demarcate Sukhna catchment area
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today constituted a committee for demarcation of catchment area near Sukhna Lake. The High Court ordered the constitution of a committee to ensure that there is no
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Tamil Nadu in the forefront in environment conservation
Tamil Nadu has always been in the forefront of environment conservation, said C.V. Sankar, Principal Secretary, Environment and Forests, here on Tuesday. The Tamil Nadu Forest Act of 1882 is one the oldest in the country. The State had also played a role in the Supreme Court coming out with landmark judgements related to environment.
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Cape Wind Gets Final Approval
Cape Wind cleared its last bureaucratic hurdle Wednesday when the Federal Aviation Administration released its finding that the project poses no hazard to planes. The finding came after a court-mandated
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Lanka not to go ahead with coal power plant with NTPC
Sri Lanka will not go ahead with the joint venture with India’s National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) to build a coal power plant in eastern Trincomalee district, the Supreme court was told today,
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Finish Hirabaug slum rehab project by Dec 2017: HC
The Bombay high court has directed the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to start and complete the slum rehabilitation scheme for the Hirabaug colony here by December 31, 2017. Eligible slum-dwellers be
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SC dismisses plea challenging NGT ban on 15-year-old vehicles in Delhi
Let us assist the NGT and not discourage it, says CJI-led Bench The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition challenging an order passed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in November
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Give my village drinking water first, says resident
The Dakshina Kannada Permanent Lok Adalat has received a unique petition. In a letter to it, a resident of 34-Nekkilady has written to it questioning the district administration for failing to provide
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Evaluating Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor performance from Ambedkar Nagar to Moolchand, Delhi: final report
This study is in response to the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) Case filed by M/s Nyaya Bhoomi, versus Government of NCT of Delhi, as the Honourable High Court, Delhi had passed the order directing the
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Hawkins Cookers gets stay on Punjab PCB order
Hawkins Cookers Ltd has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that it has got a stay from the Punjab and Haryana High Court against an order issued by the Punjab Pollution Control Board, which instructed
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Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding poor quality of diesel supplied by refineries, 08/08/2016
<p>Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Dileep B. Nevatia Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/08/2016 regarding violation of the provisions of the Air
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Drug patents: Showdown for pharma companies in Supreme Court
Novartis patent case up for hearing this week; judgment to have far-reaching impact Mumbai/London: The Supreme Court will hear final arguments starting this week in a landmark case over drug patents that
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CPCB report on air quality in Delhi during the period of Diwali, 27/11/2020
<p>Report by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in the matter of Tribunal on its own motion Vs Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change and Others dated 27/11/2020. The report was in
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Report by UPPCB on illegal sand mining activities in district Shamli, Uttar Pradesh, 27/11/2020
<p>Report by Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) in Original Application No. 87 of 2020 (Kiran Pal Rana Vs Union of India & Others) dated 27/11/2020. The matter related to illegal sand mining
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HC notice on rampant mining in Kumaon
Haldwani resident Ravishankar Joshi filed a petition on Saturday alleging rampant illegal mining in areas like Jamrani, Amiya and Amritpur by people who had got government land on lease. The court has
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Bhopal activists determined to fight US ruling
There is stiff resistance to the latest US federal court order that neither Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for any pollution-linked claims by the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster and the non-government organisations working here for the cause of the gas victims are determined to go in appeal against this order. Reacting to the US district Court Judge John F. Keenan’s dismissal of the case on June 26, Rachna Dhingra of Bhopal Group for Information and Action said that is the fourth instance of dismissal.
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PIL against Cement Companies might open a can of worms
Shillong: The calculated silence on the issue of mining in forest areas and violation of Forest Act, 1980 by cement companies’ in Jaintia Hills or rather by official custodians of forests who have issued no objection certificates (NOC) in such forest lands till now, is being challenged vide a public interest litigation filed by the Jaintia Youth Federation (JYF). The JYF filed their PIL against a set of respondents including the State Government, in the Supreme Court. Chief Justice of India who heard the case, in his ruling on April 20, this year disposed off the matter with liberty for JYF to file the petition in any other appropriate court first.
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Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazilian court, appeal likely but difficult
A high federal court in Brazil has ruled that work on the Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon be immediately suspended. Finding that the government failed to properly consult indigenous people on the
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Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding cutting of trees for the proposed 6 lane wide road in between Pushpraj Chowk to Vishrambag Chowk on Sangli - Miraj Road, 12/08/2014
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Sangli Zilla Sudhar Samiti Vs Chief Secretary PWD State of Maharashtra dated 12/08/2014 on the issue of the proposed
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Mangroves Theme Park reopened for public
KANNUR: Celebrating its victory in the first round of the court battle to retain the controversial Mangroves Theme Park on the banks of the Valapattanam River, the CPM-sponsored Pappinissery Ecotourism Society opened the park to the public on Sunday morning.<br />
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Krishna water row surfaces between AP and Telangana
Telangana questions AP’s motive in filing counter to its SLP The Telangana government has questioned the motive of its Andhra Pradesh counterpart in filing a counter affidavit, requesting the Supreme