The High Court yesterday directed the authorities to prepare a list of polluters and encroachers of river Mayur in Khulna, and to place it to this court within four months.

Deputy commissioner of Khulna and director of department of environment of the district have to submit the list of polluters and encroachers of the river to the HC.

After hearing a writ petition, an HC bench also issued a

The Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the six-member committee headed by Justice N K Patil, the Chairman of High Court Legal Service Authority, to submit its report by February 28, 2011.

The Authority had been earlier told to chalk out a plan for preservation of lakes in the City.
The commissioners of Bangalore Development Authority and Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, secretaries of

Allotment of gram sabha land to private persons illegal
Ponds, tanks which served communities for years encroached upon
Taking a serious view of illegal and unauthorised encroachments on government poromboke land, the Supreme Court has directed all the State governments to prepare schemes for eviction of such occupants of gram sabha/panchayat/poromboke/shamlat land and restore them to the gram s

Expressing grave concern over the malaise of land grabbing even reaching remote villages of the country, the Supreme Court in an unprecedented order has sought detailed report form chief secretaries of the states and Union Territories about vanishing of vast chunk of

The 12 million tonne per annum project, proposed in Orissa and billed as the largest FDI in India, does not encroach forest land and should be given go ahead at the earliest."
Kim Jong-Hoon South Korean trade minister South Korea on Thursday urged India not to "disregard" the importance of the proposed $12 billion Posco steel project, in view of the development it is set to bring in the country b

Sharadha Narayanan | ENS

Only seven of the total 13,702 tanks fenced; 4,695 yet to cross survery stage; 1,978 tenements on water bodies in Chennai alone
FIVE years after the Madras High Court ordered that all encroachments to water bodies in the State be cleared, the Public Works Department (PWD) is yet to begin eviction work in one-third of the tanks in Tamil Nadu.