The Centre’s plea seeking review of the Supreme Court’s 2G ruling that natural resources should be allotted to private companies only through “auction” was today opposed in the apex court.

LUCKNOW: A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday against the alleged double standards adopted by the Central Bureau of Investigation

KOLKATA, 26 APRIL: The compliance report of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) was conspicuous by its absence among similar reports of different state government departments concerning Victori

ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad high court in an important direction has directed the state government to now consider the appropriateness of restricting the consumption, sale and distribution of tobacco

DEHRADUN: Acting on the directive of the Uttarakhand high court, the state government on Wednesday imposed a blanket ban on noise pollution in a radius of 500 metres around the Corbett National Par

The Bombay High Court has paved the way for the Maharashtra Housing and Development Authority (MHADA) to carry out redevelopment of Dharavi Sector 5, but the state government would have to struggle to find a way of evicting 63 per cent slumdwellers who have been found ineligible for rehabilitation under the ambitious Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP).

The National Green Tribunal may not even be a year old but it has already come up with some landmark judgments, says Prasun Chaudhuri

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan High Court on Monday came down heavily on the state government over illegal allotments and encroachments in the catchment area of water bodies in the state, saying the government was encouraging such illegality with active aide of its officials.

The harsh criticism came soon after the government moved an application demanding that the PIL related to encroachments of water bodies shall be heard by a division bench when the court was about to pronouncement its judgment after several months of hearing.

The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Centre on a petition demanding that the Government approval for the Cairn Energy-Vedanta Resources deal be declared invalid.

The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed developer Niranjan Hiranandani to submit a revised plan for building houses for middle and low-income groups in Powai to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The civic body has been asked to take a decision on the new proposal by June 15.

The court also maintained that all construction in the scheme must be for weaker sections as per the tripatrite agreement between the developer, the BMC and the MMRDA.