The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has formed a joint committee to tackle pollution in Srinagar’s Dal Lake. The order was passed last week by the Coram of Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava, judicial member Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi and expert member Dr A Senthil Vel. The Coram directed the committee to prepare environmental management guidelines for…
Ever since WhatsApp groups became a thing and de rigeur in India, group messages, from school to college to neighbours to many more, have kept phone users hooked, and despondent at the same time, at the flurry despite turning off notifications and whatnot. Justice KV Viswanathan of the Supreme Court took note of the same…
Supreme Court stays Ayush Ministry’s Notification which omitted Prohibition On Ads Of Ayurvedic, Unani & Siddha Drugs without approval. The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a notification issued by the Ministry of Ayush on July 1, 2024, which omitted the prohibition on advertisements of Ayurvedic, Unani, and Siddha drugs without approval. Noting that the omission…
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court seeking a single Self-Declaration Certificate (SDC) for all media entities, including members of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), advertising agencies, print media, and startups. The affidavit was filed by Senthil Rajan, Joint Secretary of the MIB on August…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha in separate cases initiated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over her alleged involvement in the Delhi liquor policy scam case. The order was passed by the Bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice…
The Patna High Court dismissed an application filed for quashing the notification containing the Bihar Mobile Tower, Optical Fibre Cables and related Telecom Infrastructure Rules, 2020 on the ground of being in contravention of the Bihar Municipal Act, 2007 and for other reliefs. The case of the petitioner is that Chapter XV of the Bihar…
The Bombay High Court has directed the Director General of Police, State of Maharashtra to file an affidavit-in-reply to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) bringing on record the steps/measures which are being taken by the Government Railway Police in Maharashtra to check human trafficking. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice…
The Allahabad High Court dismissed a petition filed by choreographer and film director Remo D’Souza in connection with a cheating case of Police Station Sihani gate, District Ghaziabad. A Single Bench of Justice Rajeev Misra passed this order while hearing an application under section 482 filed by Remo D’Souza. Applicant Remo D’Souza, has preferred the…
The Allahabad High Court has allowed a petition filed challenging the order passed by District Inspector of Schools, declining to entertain the online application of the petitioner for transfer on the ground that there are only two Assistant Teachers in the institution in question and the Headmaster of the institution is busy with the work…
The Chhattisgarh High Court has rejected a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed seeking the intervention of the High Court in the matter of allotment of work under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), which has been launched with the aim of providing basic civic amenities like water supply, sewerage, urban transport, parks…