-The Hindu Forest Bench says statutory clearance is a must The Forest Bench of the Supreme Court on Friday made it clear that no iron ore mining operations in Karnataka shall be permitted to resume unless there was statutory clearance for mining and till reclamation and rehabilitation was implemented in full. The Bench, comprising Justice Aftab Alam, Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar, took the decision after the Central Empowered Committee in...
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Food Department Officials Raid Ramdev’s Ashram
-PTI Officials of Uttarakhand Food Department today carried out raids on the premises of Divya Yog ashram of yoga guru Ramdev and collected samples of various ayurvedic medicines. The food department officials collected samples of honey, salt, gram floor among other things from the ashram during the nearly 3-hour raid. The raids were criticised by Ramdev who alleged the action was taken at the behest of the Centre. "This is war between the elite...
More »15 CBI sleuths to probe Assam riots-Pankaj Sarma
-The Telegraph Guwahati: A 15-member CBI team, led by deputy inspectors-general of police Anurag Garg and Arun Bothra, will probe the Assam violence. Besides Garg, DIG from CBI special crime zone (I), and Bothra, DIG from the CBI special crime zone (II), the team has two superintendents of police and 11 officers of subordinate ranks. An official source today said the CBI team had set up office at the Bongaigaon Refinery & Petrochemicals...
More »Parliament disrupted over black money
-IANS Both Houses of Parliament were disrupted on Monday as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members noisily demanded that black money stashed abroad be brought back to the country. In the Rajya Sabha, BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu raised the issue when zero hour began. Criticising the government, he said: "Even the CBI director has raised the issue, which shows the seriousness of the issue. With that money we can solve several problems...
More »Judicial probe into riots
-The Telegraph Guwahati/ Kokrajhar/ Dhubri: Chief minister Tarun Gogoi today announced a judicial inquiry into the riots that began in Kokrajhar on July 20, leaving 77 dead and over four lakh displaced. The judicial probe will be over and above the inquiry to be conducted by the CBI, which has taken over seven cases on their own, Gogoi added. He, however, did not announce details of who will conduct the probe or its...
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