New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Monday asked the ministry of environment and forests to set up a national environment regulator with offices in every state to “appraise and monitor” the process for granting green clearances and how the regulations are complied with.

Industry expects the move to make the process, now fraught with uncertainties and huge delays, more transparent and efficient. At present, more than 4,600 proposals are pending with the forest advisory committee (FAC) for final clearance.

New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its decision on setting up of an environment regulator for evaluating projects, enforcing environmental conditions for approv-als and imposition of

The Supreme Court today directed 10 cement manufacturing companies to pay Rs 630 crore by June 24 as a pre-condition for hearing their appeals against a penalty of Rs 6,300 crore imposed on them fo

The Competition Appellate Tribunal (Compat) has directed cement companies to pay 10 per cent of the penalty of Rs 6,307 crore imposed on them by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for cartel

The Virbhadra Singh-led Congress government, in a late evening cabinet decision on Wednesday, decided to grant licence to Reliance Industries for setting up a cement plant in the Chopal tehsil of a

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court seeking modification of its guidelines mandating forest clearance prior to environmental clearance, saying the related procedures have delayed and stalled 22 important projects worth over R20,000 crore.

The highway authority has also sought a direction to the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to modify its office memoranda (OM) of March and April 2011 so as to delink the two clearances in respect of widening of national highways.

The Union ministry of coal has issued deallocation letters for eight coal blocks, giving effect to a recent decision taken by the Inter-Ministerial Group.

The Ministry of Coal has issued de-allocation letters for eight coal blocks following a decision of the Inter-Ministerial Group.