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Long-standing tension between the Centre and NGT

Lack of coordination between government agencies and NGT

Judicial intervention and environmental responsiveness

Striking the balance

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Opinion: Cold submission

The enactment of the law will remain a critical contribution in enforcing a legal regime for the sus

Author(s): July 23, 2015
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Governance

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What's your number?

Sold as a concept to plug leakages in welfare schemes, Aadhaar is now creating more problems than what it had set out to resolve

Centre’s new tribunal rules likely to change NGT composition

The Centre has notified new rules for appointment and termination in the NGT, which grant more say to the executive while reducing the influence of the judiciary

Relief for meat, leather traders as Supreme Court stays Centre’s ban on cattle slaughter

The Centre will revise the rules on cattle trade by August after getting inputs from states

What's your number?

Sold as a concept to plug leakages in welfare schemes, Aadhaar is now creating more problems than what it had set out to resolve

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Going backward

Today the country faces a new challenge: even the traditionally well-off farming communities are demanding reservations in government jobs. Their demand is an offshoot of deepening agrarian crisis that if ignored can snowball into an explosive situation

The flame of forest rages on

A bureaucrat-turned-activist who saw governance through the eyes of the tribals

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T S R Subramanian panel proposes new law, institutions to fast track green clearances

High level committee formed by Modi government to review green laws proposes a new Act under which full-time expert bodies will be set up for evaluating and clearing projects

MoEF's clearance must for mining minor minerals, too: Supreme Court

Forest bench expresses concern over environmental damage caused by stone and sand mining

Dissent and democracy

Forty years after the Emergency was declared, India must revisit its legacy of dissent

Himachal villages claim community forest rights for the first time

Threatened by an eviction notice, villages come forward to claim their community rights

Capital punishment

Manipur government's massive relocation plan in shambles

Sustainable Development Goals: A paradigm shift in United Nations' fund flow

A report cites the changing funding patterns of the UN and its reliance on corporate partners

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What's failing farmers?

In 2015, Down To Earth had predicted that agrarian crisis has reached the tipping point, beyond which it will hit the national economy.

Desertification has increased in 90 per cent of states in India

Increased drying of soil will further precipitate the agrarian crisis in the country

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Conflicts over water

Four of the 10 drought-hit states in the country face chronic conflicts because of poor water management and diversion of water to urban areas

Drought: the order of the day?

The drought-prone area of the country has increased by 57 per cent since 1997

How India is killing the country’s largest economy of the poor

New restriction on cattle slaughter will severely cripple the livestock economy which is bigger than crop economy; poor farmers shifted to livestock in face of uncertain rain and dwindling income

Farmers will bear the brunt of climate change

By 2050, India is likely to experience a temperature rise of 1-4°C; rainfall will increase by 9-16 per cent. This will have a detrimental effect on farmers in more than half of the country

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