Transportation of illegal minerals in Haryana also stopped

The Supreme Court on Monday stopped illegal mining in the villages of Kota, Gangani, Sarai, Mohammadpur and Kharag Jalalpur in Mewat district of Haryana, taking note of the report submitted by the Central Empowered Committee about large-scale illegal mining taking place in these areas.

The Supreme Court on Monday granted a further time of six weeks to the Centre to file its response on a writ petition highlighting the alleged illegal clinical trials of untested drugs being conducted by pharmaceutical firms on adults, children and even mentally ill persons.

A Bench of Justices R.M. Lodha and H.L. Gokhale, however, observed “this [clinical trials] is unfortunate. The Government of India must take corrective steps.”

The Tamil Nadu government has approached the Supreme Court seeking urgent directions to restrain Karnataka from taking up summer irrigation and consequent depletion of storages in the reservoirs in Karnataka, in contravention of the final order passed by the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal in February 2007.

In its application, Tamil Nadu said the Tribunal in its final award on February 5, 2007 had allocated Kerala 30 tmc ft; Karnataka 270 tmcft; Tamil Nadu 419 tmcft and Puduchery seven tmcft out of the total 740 tmcft available for allocation.

The five-member Empowered Committee (EC), headed by former Chief Justice of India A.S. Anand, on Monday finalised six chapters in the final report to be submitted to the Supreme Court on the safety of the Mullaperiyar dam.

Besides Justice Anand, other Members in the panel are: Justice K.T. Thomas, retired Supreme Court Judge representing Kerala; Justice A.R. Lakshmanan, retired Supreme Court Judge representing Tamil Nadu;

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to Union of India and Uttar Pradesh government on an application seeking a direction to vacate the interim stay on the court monitored CBI investigation of foodgrain scam as directed by the Allahabad High Court

A Bench of Justice A.K. Patnaik and Justice Swatanter Kumar issued notice on an application filed by Vishwanath Chaturvedi, who was the petitioner before the High Court.

The five-member Empowered Committee (EC) headed by former Chief Justice of India A. S.

NGO says there has been a rampant compromise with human life

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre on a writ petition alleging that illegal clinical trials of untested drugs were being conducted by pharmaceutical companies on adults, children and even mentally ill persons in various States.

Tamil Nadu wants it to maintain that dam will continue to serve its purpose

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, while permitting Sterlite Industries at Tuticorin to continue the operations at its copper plant, directed the company to file a fresh application before the Tamil Nad

Rejects Tamil Nadu's stand that a new dam is not necessary as the present one is safe

Despite the unanimous opinion of two experts of the Supreme Court-appointed Empowered Committee that the 116-year-old Mullaperiyar dam is safe, Kerala has pressed for the construction of a new dam. In a fresh application filed before the committee, Kerala said, “The public authority is endowed with responsibility to take a final call on the replacement of a dam by considering the human factors, viz., the extent and nature of damage to life and property, if dam fails and ecological considerations.”