Asking NTPC to approach the government for modification, the bench said, "The Government of India has issued a notification. We are not going to modify the ... notification."

The project is likely to go into tender stage by April next year and cost of the project is an approximate Rs 120 crore.

The Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board said the third path was not complete and will be opened by the end of February next year.

The SC bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur also asked the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways to ensure that all fuel refilling centres in the National Capital Region (NCR) have PUC centres.

India has been toying with the idea of UHC since 2011 when a high-level expert committee, formed by the erstwhile Planning Commission, submitted its report but nothing much came of it.

The court noted that Rs 700 crore was collected as “green cess”, of which, as per rules, 25 per cent was provided to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

A 'declaration' by the newly-launched alliance said that coal phase-out needed to be carried out "no later than by 2030" in the OECD and EU countries, and "no later than by 2050" in the rest of the

“The roads of Shimla are choked due to which visitors and residents are stuck in traffic jams for hours together.

The AQI had reached 486 on Thursday, the highest in several months.

On Tuesday, 862 field fire incidents were detected by remote sensing satellite.