The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has attached three out of four properties of fugitive diamond businessman Nirav Modi, for the recovery of property tax worth Rs 9.5 crores pending against them, a civic official … READ FULL STORY
The Ministry of Environment and Forests, on January 6, 2020, issued a notification for the new Wetland Conservation Rules. The new Rules prohibit the conversion for non-wetland uses, including encroachment of any kind, besides … READ FULL STORY
The Environment Ministry, while noting that there were operational issues including the overloading of waste against its designed capacity, sought an explanation from Timarpur Okhla Waste Management Company Pvt Ltd, which operates the Okhla … READ FULL STORY
A Supreme Court bench of justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta, on November 26, 2018, said officials who have failed to act on complaints regarding pollution in Delhi, were required to be prosecuted. … READ FULL STORY
As the average air quality in the national capital region inched towards severe levels, union environment minister Harsh Vardhan, has said that the government has decided to initiate criminal prosecution against agencies, which do … READ FULL STORY
A National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench, headed by justice RS Rathore, has directed the Railways to seek a ‘no-objection certificate’ (NOC) from the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA), for extraction of groundwater to clean … READ FULL STORY
The National Green Tribunal (NGT), on July 3, 2018, rapped the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, for not obeying its order to refund Rs 12 crores to a private builder in the state and … READ FULL STORY
A Delhi High Court bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and Sanjeev Sachdeva, termed the steps taken to curb pollution in the national capital as ‘woefully inadequate’, after none of the authorities, including the … READ FULL STORY
The activists of Aarey Conservation Group, along with scores of people and school children, held a peaceful protest by embracing trees in Aarey Colony and appealed to the government to reconsider its decision to … READ FULL STORY
The task, to remove encroachments on nearly four acres of mangrove land in Mumbai, has been carried out over the last two months in suburban Chembur and its neighbouring areas, where people had built … READ FULL STORY
Refusing to stay a December 9, 2016, notification issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), exempting real estate projects from obtaining prior environmental clearance, a bench headed by NGT chief justice Swatanter … READ FULL STORY
The Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry has notified an eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) around Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in Mumbai, covering an area of 59.46 sq kilometres of which 19.25 sq kilometres is … READ FULL STORY
The ‘Mangrove Cell’ of the Maharashtra government, will remove around 1,000 houses in the first week of November, 2016, for encroaching notified mangrove areas in the city. “The demolition drive is going to start … READ FULL STORY
