CUTTACK: The expansion plan of Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL) for its refinery and captive power plant at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district has hit a major roadblock.

JODHPUR: Taking a serious note of illegal mining at the prohibited area near the Air Force station in Jaisalmer, a division bench of Rajasthan High Court has directed the chief secretary along with the district collector and superintendent of police, Jaisalmer, to ensure that no mining activity takes place in the area.

Hearing a PIL, the bench comprising Chief Justice Arun Kumar Mishra and Just

The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the state government not to allow the transport of 247 tonnes of toxic waste from Bhopal

The Orissa High Court on Tuesday rejected the plea of Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) for a six-fold expansion of its one-million-tonne per annum alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa's Kalahandi district.

Vedanta had filed a petition in the HC on November 12, 2010, praying to quash the order of the Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) to maintain the status quo and allow the exp

The spat between residents of Sukhdev Vihar and the Delhi government over the proposed waste-to-energy plant witnessed another twist during the ongoing hearing in the Delhi High Court on Monday.

While the counsel for the Residents

Admitting before a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court that carbonated drinks and junks foods were harmful to health, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Monday informed the Bench that it had initiated steps to ban sale of these two consumables in and around educational institutions across the country.

The Ministry submitted this before the Bench comprising Justice Dipak Misra an

The Tata Motors counsel today told Calcutta High Court that the

Waste-to-energy plant z Residents of colony filed PIL in HC claiming that the plant was too close and posed an environment threat
The Delhi government has filed a detailed counter to the PIL by Sukhdev Vihar residents who had claimed that the construction of a waste-to-energy plant in the locality will damage the environment.

Calling the project a

LUCKNOW: A PIL has been filed in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court seeking quashing of land acquisition and plot allotment to dubious companies in Noida.

The PIL is likely to come up for hearing on July 14. The PIL has been filed by Nawab Singh Nagar, a former MLA of Dadri assembly constituency of Gautam Buddh Nagar through his counsel Anurag Kumar Singh.

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