Source: hindustantimes.com The Ministry of Environment Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has filed an application in the Supreme Court (SC) to abolish the Dahanu Taluka Environment Protection Authority (DTEPA), a group created in 1996 to preserve the ecology of a stretch of coast between Mumbai’s northern suburbs and the industrial centres of south Gujarat. The

Source: hindustantimes.com The UT administration has initiated the process for restoration and conservation of the Punjab and Haryana civil secretariat buildings at the Capitol Complex in Sector 1. “Under the project, flooring, which has worn over the years, will be restored. Chips will be used, as in the original construction undertaken in the 1950s. The surface

Source: indianexpress.com When her name was called out Saturday to receive the gold medal for standing first in her LL.M class at the National Law University, Delhi, Surbhi Karwa was at work. “Unfortunately, she is not here. We will award her the medal in absentia,” Prof (Dr) G S Bajpai, the university registrar, said during

Source: newindianexpress.com ONGOLE: As many as 86 village volunteers filed petitions in the High Court, alleging that the authorities did not allow them to attend training classes despite them having been selected for the job. Majority of these petitioners belong to the villages in the Chirala and Vetapalem mandals.  Meanwhile, around 17,964 village volunteers were ready

Source: news18.com New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government, “at present”, has no plan in place to increase the retirement age of judges of the Supreme Court and high courts. As a debate on the issue gets revived with a proposal recently made by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi to the government, a reply received under

Source: newindianexpress.com BALANGIR:  Union Petroleum and Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan conducted an aerial survey of flood affected areas in Kalahandi, Boudh, Subarnapur and Balangir districts on Saturday.Accompanied by BJP MPs Basant Panda and Sangeeta Singhdeo, he went round several areas in Balangir town that were submerged following a torrential downpour on Tuesday.  The district received record

Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: The Madras high court has held that the entries made in the service register based on the documents produced by an employee at the time of the appointment and recruitment cannot be altered unless applications are filed in time together with such supporting documents before the competent authority to enable the latter to

Source: indiatvnews.com The Madhya Pradesh High Court has decided to club all the petitions challenging the Congress state government’s decision to raise the reservation for the OBCs from 14 to 27 per cent and will hear all the petitions from August 21. Pro- and anti-reservationists have been battling it out on diverse fora at a

Source: hindustantimes.com PUNE A Pune sessions court acquitted an accused charged with assaulting a head constable of Kondhwa police station in 2016. The court received the documents of the case on January 23, 2018, and the decision was taken on August 14, 2019. The accused, identified as Akram Gulab Khan (23), resident of Nawazish Park

Source: deccanchronicle.com Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court dismissed as “unreal, unreasonable and vague” the contentions of the state government that it had complied with all legal requirements to complete the pre-poll procedure for the municipal elections. The court specifically questioned the government on the matter of seeking objections while delimiting wards and rejecting them, and draft