-Reuters   Clad in white home-spun garments and living in a spartan room of his village's Hindu temple, Anna Hazare is an unlikely thorn in the side of the government hundreds of miles away in New Delhi. And yet for millions of Indians, he is a 21st-century Mahatma Gandhi, inspiring a rare wave of protests against the spiralling corruption that has tarnished the up-and-coming image of Asia's third-largest economy. Like Gandhi, who led India's...

Three days after the union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) issued a notice to the state government asking it to take action against the lavasa Corporation for violating environmental norms, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday said his government was thinking a way out for the project. The CM, however, clarified that there would be no immediate action against the project. “This is an important project and action against the...

-The Economic Times The state government has decided to file a case against lavasa Corporation in Pune for violation of environmental norms at lavasa hill resort, Maharashtra Environment Minister Sanjay Devtale has said. The case is expected to be filed in one or two days. ET has learned that the state government will also withdraw the 'special executive status' to the company. This status allows lavasa to undertake any construction without...

Fresh trouble is brewing for India’s largest high profile lavasa Lake City project near Pune, undertaken by Mumbai-based Hindustan Construction (HCC), as Maharashtra government is going to file a stringent environmental violation case against it in Pune court this week. “After consulting the legal department on Monday, we will file a case against lavasa Corporation for violating the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, and other breaches,” Valsa Nair-Singh, secretary, department of environment,...

-The Hindu   Almost five months since having declared that lavasa's hill city project near Pune violated the Environment Protection Act, the Union Environment Ministry has finally told the Maharashtra government to take “necessary action” against the company. In a letter to the State government on Friday, the Ministry said lavasa had started development and construction work on 681 hectares of land without obtaining the necessary prior environmental clearance. It asked the Maharashtra...