Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court has rejected a PIL seeking directions to authorities to prevent people from immersing idols in water bodies during religious festivities so as to avoid water pollution.

Guwahati, Aug. 20: Assam

Cuttack: While the Centre on several occasions has made its intentions clear that it was willing to provide all logistic support to the CBI if the country's premier investigating agency is entrusted to probe into the Rs 1,000-crore mining scam in Odisha, its counsel on Thursday sought at least 10 more days to file its counter in the Odisha High Court.

At least seven Public Interest Litigations

New Delhi: Concerned over application of artificial colours into fruits and vegetables that are being consumed in the capital, the Delhi high court on Wednesday sought an explanation from the state government.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justice Manmohan issued a notice to the Delhi government seeking its response by September 29 on a PIL that raised the issue

BHUBANESWAR: Sharply reacting to the objections raised by the N C Saxena Committee to the proposal to allow bauxite mining by the Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) in the Niyamgiri hills, the State Government on Tuesday asserted that all decisions have been taken as per the Supreme Court directive.

Mining Activity
Yoginder Gupta

Chandigarh, August 12
A dichotomous situation regarding mining without prior environment clearance has arisen in the adjoining states of Haryana and Punjab because of contradictory orders issued by different Benches of the High Court.

New Delhi: The Raman Singh government just got one day from the Supreme Court on Wednesday to respond to some searching questions on mitigating the plight of poor tribals caught in the crossfire between Naxals and Salwa Judum, the state-sponsored vigilante group, in Chhattisgarh

ANAND S.T. DAS
PATNA
        
A senior BJP eader has been carrying out an untiring judicial and pub ic crusade for Bihar and Jharkhand's rights over its share of the Sone river's water, which gets illegally diverted by neighbouring Uttar Pradesh for an NTPC hermal power plant, endangering farmland irrigation in arge parts of undivided Bihar.