The court order came on a PIL alleging issuance of illegal leases in favour of private parties in Ganga riverbed.
Eyewitnesses told police that the bus was being rashly driven.
'Is this building a legally valid building? In this, there are no rules. It is built in violation of rules, against the law and built with corruption'
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According to government officials, the Indian arm of Turner Project Management, which worked on the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa of Dubai, is consultant for the project and construction management.
Even as the jury is still out on whether the destruction in the state is man-made or caused by nature's fury, there's sufficient evidence to suggest that warnings were loud and clear much before the disaster struck.
The Trinamool Congress leader was all praise for the Rs 5,000-crore (Rs 50-billion) Sagar Port project by the Kolkata Port Trust, which will be the first project in the country to come up through the reclamation of riverbed.
Two sites for the location of the airport had earlier been rejected, one of them being Imchi near Gumto, which was cancelled on account of being a riverbed and not having an even ground.
An aide of Swami Nigamananda, who died during a fast against quarrying in Ganga riverbed, is sitting on a dharna in Haridwar demanding that the Central Bureau of Investigation probe the role of the seer's guru Shivanand.
Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Tuesday said it is launching a survey to identify unsafe buildings near Yamuna riverbed in the city and ordered a vigilance probe into the house collapse disaster in east Delhi as it battled allegations of laxity in allowing illegal constructions in the congested area.
The image captured by Reuters photographer Jose Luis Gonzalez on Monday shows the horrible plight of this mother and son who had travelled some 2,410 kilometre from their home country of Guatemala to the border city of Ciudad Juarez, only to be stopped mere feet from the United States.
Despite the presence of mosquitoes and reeking fields, workers continue to give shape to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's event where 3.5 million people are expected to convene.
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The body of district police intelligence officer Sadhu Chatterjee was found on Saturday from the Haldi riverbed at Narghat, near Nandigram, four days after he was killed in a mob attack.
The Janata Dal-United president was, however, dismissive of any such suggestion and told reporters after the meeting that "too much was being read into" the meeting which, he insisted, was a usual interaction between the prime minister and a chief minister.
The bus was on its way to Patna from Raxaul in East Champaran district.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Centre has transferred around Rs 1,35,000 crore so far under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme with the payment of eighth instalment on Friday and is also procuring higher quantity of paddy and wheat at minimum support price to boost farmers' income.
'What one experiences is the soft scented breeze from the Kabini river and sounds of invisible insects strumming their guitars,' says Rajesh Karkera.
The Andhra Pradesh government is considering taking the assistance of space agencies Indian Space Research Organisation and National Aeronautics and Space Administration to trace the 17 missing engineering students from Hyderabad who were swept away in Beas river after sudden release of water from a reservoir.
Lalgarh, once a nerve centre of Naxal insurgency in West Bengal, now represents a different place.
The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday directed the principal committee, constituted for rejuvenation of Yamuna, to inspect the site on river floodplains where a three-day festival was organised by Art of Living under the patronage of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
Munde took the selfies with the dried-up Manjara river as the backdrop, while on a visit to the parched region to review desilting work on the riverbed.
The 'World Culture Festival' extravaganza organised by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living on Yamuna has "completely destroyed" the riverbed, an expert committee has told by the National Green Tribunal.
Asumal Sirumalani aka Asaram added around 400 ashrams in India and abroad within a span of four decades.
Demanding a fresh probe by an "unbiased" panel, AOL lawyer Kedar Desai and environment expert Prabhakar Rao told a press conference in Noida that "no damage" was caused to the environment due to the event held in March.
The NGT, however, refused to impose any further environment compensation on the AoL.
Resettlement of 12,000 families living on banks of Sabarmati Riverfront cost Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation about Rs 1,200 crore
Stepping up attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party over Asaram Bapu controversy, Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Sunday targeted Narendra Modi, asking why he has not taken action on the report of a judicial commission which probed the mysterious death of two boys at the godman's Gujarat ashram.
More than legal and illegal mining of sand, the issue which stares us in the face is sustainable sand mining, says Gopal Krishna
Have a look at these photos taken from the incredible world we live in. These are the winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition 2020.
Year after year, floods cause mayhem in Bihar but the government is not paying adequate attention to water management.
Here are some of the beautiful images in the contest.
After the public spat over the legacy of Sardar Patel between Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Modi will lay the foundation stone for the statue on Thursday.
The monkeys can't take their eyes off the snake, and Geetanjali Krishna has forgotten to breathe.
Pulwama must become the defining moment in our fight against terror, effecting a sea change in our mindset. The erratic, blow hot blow cold approach, the hallmark of our anti-terror-Pak-Kashmir policy must end. In its place is required a pragmatic, comprehensive, robust hard line course that is relentlessly pursued even in times of relative calm until the final objective is met, namely the eradication of separatism and the total annihilation of terror, says Vivek Gumaste.
Rescuers on Monday fished out bodies of five Hyderabad-based engineering students, who were washed away in the swirling waters of Beas River along with 20 classmates whose fate is not known as Chief minister Virbhadra Singh ordered a magisterial inquiry and suspension of Resident Engineer of Larji hydropower project.
The Gomti Riverfront Development project, the Agra-Lucknow Expressway, the Jai Prakash Narayan International Centre and the efforts towards the beautification of Old Lucknow are some of Akhilesh Yadav's initiatives that are the subject of investigation.
Why did such a 'socially conscientious' people adapt to cash-for-votes and the like, as fish to water? N Sathiya Moorthy offers an explanation.
The uproar over 'dams' following the Uttarakhand disaster is ill-informed & potentially counter-productive, says Anand Sankar
The question wafting in the winds over the Vaigai riverbed is, has Karunanidhi's disgraced son accepted his fate? A Ganesh Nadar and Saisuresh Sivaswamy find out.
