The Supreme Court has served a blow to “single window” clearances, meant to hasten infrastructural development, in the ecologically fragile and seismic-prone lower Himalayan ranges by temporarily staying the construction of a 90-acre hotel and township project in the Kumaon hills of Uttarakhand. Suresh and advocates Vipin Nair and Karthik Jayashankar, raising a substantial question of law whether “single window” …
HYDERABAD: The state government is exploring legal options to challenge the National Green Tribunal orders imposing a fine of Rs 920.8 crore for violations related to environmental clearances to Palamuru-Ranga Reddy and the Dindi lift irrigation projects. It may be recalled that on Thursday, the NGT’s southern zone bench at Chennai had imposed the hefty fines after declaring that the …
The Supreme Court of India perused the original file of Election Commissioner Arun Goel's appointment on Thursday and said the file was cleared in "haste" and with a "tearing hurry". As the apex court observed that the file pertaining to Goel’s appointment was cleared with "lightning speed", the Centre through Attorney General R Venkataramani asked the court to "hold its …
