KOLKATA, 28 FEB: Some of the flora over portions of the 273 acres of Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Botanical Gardens are not getting their share of underground water.

New Delhi A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking to declare the $8.48-billion Cairn-Vedanta deal as illegal.

A bench headed by Justice HL Dattu is likely to hear the matter on March 2. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, had on January 24 granted final approval to the deal.

While closing its 10-year-long monitoring of the ambitious `5 lakh crore river interlinking project conceived by Atal Behari Vajpayee’s NDA government and deemed his dream project, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered the setting up of a multi-member committee to oversee its execution, particularly for river links mentioned in several feasibility reports of the task force.

The committee will be headed by the water resources minister and comprise the ministry secretary, the secretary, environment and forest ministry, the Central Water Commission chief, the water development authority secretary,

Following the Bombay High Court order asking Hiranandani builders to construct homes for the weaker section, a state teachers’ union has written to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to consider teachers from government-recognised schools for these flats whenever they are built and ready to be allotted.

Hearing three public interest litigations (PILs) claiming that the Hiranandani group had constructed more spacious apartments than mentioned in the agreement with the state government, the HC on Wednesday directed that the realty group would have to provide 15 per cent of the total developed space to the government at the rate of Rs 135 per sq ft

Cuttack: The Odisha High Court has completed hearing on a PIL that has challenged the alleged unauthorised constructions on the Mahanadi islet at Hadiapatha here for the purpose of an intake well t

Residents of eight villages around Chandigarh will not have to suffer the stink emanating from the open drain carrying water from the Mohali sewerage treatment plant to villages as the open drain w

To negate the Punjab government’s claim that no part of the catchment area falls within the jurisdiction of Punjab, Advocate Tanu Bedi, amicus curiae in the public interest litigation (PIL) pertain

Making a pitch for tourism in tiger reserves, Madhya Pradesh has told the Supreme Court that people living in reserves pose more danger to the big cats since both compete for the same resources.

Petitioner alleges that it has been sub-leased without Centre's nod

A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court Bench here seeking a direction to the Centre as well as State Government to take back 1,200.97 acres of Mullakadu Reserve Forest land handed over to Tuticorin Port Trust in 1918 on the ground that it had been allegedly let on sub lease to various public and private establishments thereby affecting its ecology.

The State had not responded to court notices in connection with a PIL