Social activists have moved court to scrap the Lavasa township project near Pune. The public interest petition filed in the Bombay High Court says the project does not have the mandatory environmental clearance from the Union environment ministry, and hence is liable to be cancelled.

After years of repeated pleas and a PIL in the High Court, residents staying along the sea shores in South Mumbai have finally got the BMC to take up the task of cleaning the shores.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday ensured that the new commissioner of police, B K Gupta, has one task cut out

While admitting it didn

With the High Court directing to cancel the notification issued by the district administration for the acquisition of three acre land belonging to Agriculture University in Madikeri, the process of constructing a private bus stand by the CMC will receive a set back.

S P Mahadevappa and three others had filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the court stating that the decision to con

New Delhi: Taking suo motu cognizance of a Sunday TOI report showing alarming levels of toxicity in vegetables and fruits in India, a concerned Delhi high court on Tuesday asked the Delhi and central government to respond.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan converted the matter into a PIL, issued notice to both the governments and said the

Rampant use of banned pesticides in fruits and vegetables, which continues to put at risk the life of the common man, forced the Delhi high court to take suo motu cognisance over the matter after going through a media report.

A division bench comprising Delhi high court Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan on Tuesday asked the Centre and state government officials to hold, if necessar

Karnataka High Court order of 16/11/2010 on tree felling in Bangalore due to road widening.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has faced yet another hurdle in the path to get clearance for her massive statues being constructed in Noida green area with the Wildlife Board claiming that the project required its clearance too.The fresh objection came as part of an affidavit filed by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests, which is presently examining the validity of the Noida park

Asks for counter affidavit by October 28
MADURAI: The Madras High Court Bench here on Monday asked the State government to spell out its stand on turning the draft Tamil Nadu Throwaway Plastic Articles (Prohibition of Sale, Storage, Distribution and Transport) Bill, pending since 2003, into legislation.

Hearing a suo motu public interest litigation petition related to dumping of plastic produc

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