In view of the plea for permitting the export of endosulfan pesticide, the production and sale of which was banned by the Supreme Court after the reports on its serious effect on human health and environment, the top court on Friday sought clarification from the monitoring panel on certain aspects,

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to lift its ban order on iron ore mining in Bellary district of Karnataka by the private companies but permitted the central PSU, National Mineral Development Corporation to resuming it from Saturday under strict conditions for maintaining the supply to the domestic steel

In a significant verdict on the rights of the children of a Muslim father in his property, the Supreme Court has held that none of his sons or daughters can relinquish right in the property under the Mullah’s Principle of Mohammedan Law. According to “paragraph-54” of the MPML a Muslim heir “is not entitled in law to relinquish

The Lokayukta report, which proved a nemesis of outgoing chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, was on Wednesday submitted to the Supreme Court with a plea for further investigation into it by the CBI or a special investigating

Amidst Opposition attack on the government in 2G scam, a fresh petition was moved in the Supreme Court on Tuesday alleging that two Enforcement Directorate offials probing the money trail against several bigwigs were being “harassed and intimidated” at the highest level on a series of complaints sent to top functionaries at the behest of a business house whose owner faced ED summons.

The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the ministry of environment and forest on a petition by the Orissa Mining Corporation, seeking quashing of the ministry’s July 11 order issued during the

A day after Sikkim high court Chief Justice P.D.

The Central Empower Committee in its latest report to the Supreme Court has rung alarming bells for iron ore rich Karnataka stating that if the Centre and the state governments failed to take immediat

Concerned about the new trend of doling out freebies like laptops, mixies, grinders and colour TVs at the cost of state exchequer and even making their distribution part of poll promises in Tamil Nadu

The Supreme Court banned mining operations across nearly 11,000 hectares in Karnataka’s Bellary district in view of the degradation, beyond repair, caused to the environment. The order comes a day after the Karnataka Lokayukta’s report on illegal mining in the state led the BJP to ask chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to step down.