The child sex ratio has dropped to a new low, 914 girls per 1,000 boys from 927 in 2001, and activists in the area say this is because states have been dragging their feet on the implementation of the Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act.

Sabu George, who in 2000 filed the PIL that led to a ban on sex determination tests, said the regulation mechanism is weak and more cases need

The number of people fined by the Directorate of Health Services (DHS) for smoking in public places shot to three times between 2007 and 2010, with more than 16,000 people being prosecuted over last year itself.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the V S Achuthanandan-headed LDF government

Delhi Has Unilaterally Allowed A Slew Of Constructions, Ignoring Environmental Concerns

New Delhi: First came the Commonwealth Games Village on the Yamuna floodplain, then the facilities at Siri Fort at the cost of a few hundred trees, then the stop-gap Millennium bus depot, again on the Yamuna bed.

The Supreme Court has warned it may step in if the Union government does not do anything to stop the alleged misappropriation of funds meant for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) in Orissa.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia asked the Centre to expeditiously decide on a CBI probe into the matter.

KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Thursday directed the state government and the local bodies to set up plants for treating and disposing of human excreta and other waste at convenient places across the state.

The plants should be set up in a time-bound manner, a Division Bench comprising Justice C N Ramachandran Nair and Justice Bhabani Prasad Ray said.

The directive was issued while consider

The irrigation and Flood Control department, the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) assured the High Court on Wednesday that the world

CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court today directed the State Government to file its response to a PIL on the large-scale irregularities in the supply of dal to schools under the mid-day meal (MDM) programme.

A Division Bench of Chief Justice V Gopalagowda and Justice BN Mohapatra has also directed the secretary, Women and Child Development Department, to file an affidavit by next week indicating wha

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday accepted the report of a committee it constituted to examine the ground realities and prepare an action plan for the preservation of lakes in Bangalore.

During the hearing of PIL by Environment Support Group, challenging the privatisation of lakes in Bangalore by the Lake Development Authority, the report on lake by committee headed by Justice N K Patil was

Jharkhand High Court today pulled up the government for the inordinate delay in construction of the Kanhar Dam in Garhwa.

While hearing a PIL on the dam, the division bench of Chief Justice Bhagwati Prasad and Justice D.N.