Second case of coronavirus confirmed in India

The patient, again from Kerala, has been quarantined and is being monitored

Union Budget 2020-21: Total rural budgetary allocation, including MGNREGA slashed

This comes even as rural India is suffering its worst unemployment crisis in 45 years

Union Budget 2020-21 spares little for climate mitigation

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman reiterates old announcements, cuts budget for National Adaptation Fund  

Union Budget 2020-21: Duty on solar panel, EV imports; relief to green energy cos

Tax benefits aimed at incentivising domestic manufacturing   

Union Budget 2020-21: Big chunk goes to tigers and elephants

Allocation for other species reduced  

Union Budget 2020-21: Finance Minister promises Rs 4,400 cr to fight air pollution

But the budget document does not reflect the bold increase  

Union Budget 2020-21: No increase in Ayushman Bharat allocations

Sitharaman announces PMJAY push in aspirational districts in PPP mode, but private hospitals are not interested  

Union Budget 2020-2021: Solar units to be set up on fallow, railway lands

Move may affect afforestation to meet India's international commitments  

Economic Survey 2019-20: Health 'achievements' tell less, hide more

Document takes credit for several measures initiated by government in health sector but does not show that targets have not been met overall

Economic Survey 2019-20: Afforestation under GIM over 126,916 ha

Data for afforestation undertaken under GIM from Parliamentary questions paint different picture though

Economic Survey 2019-20: Coverage of food processing sector needs scaling up

Recommendation is backed by fact that schemes floated to help sector have not been implemented properly

Economic Survey 2019-20: A radical deregulation agenda of poor economics and poorer economic history

Efforts to create a Singapore-on-Ganges will simply not work

Economic Survey 2019-20: Agriculture growth stagnant in last 6 years

Document emphasises sustainable agricultural practices to support farmers and avert water crisis

Economic Survey 2019-20 bets on ‘nexus approach’ for meeting SDG

India needs to focus on goals like hunger and gender parity, where it still scores low

Budget 2020-21: Expect direct benefit transfer for urea

Move to aim at controlling excessive urea usage and promoting zero-budget farming

Economic Survey 2019-20: What it says on stubble burning

Survey recognises 'concern' but says trend downwards

WHO declares coronavirus outbreak as global health emergency

After Vietnam, Germany and Japan; US too confirms human-to-human transmission in their countries

Coronavirus: How will govt ‘test’ over 43,000 China-returned travellers?

NIV in Pune currently has reagents to test only 5,000 people

2020 Tyler Prize for the environment awarded to Indian economist who formulated Green Economy

Pavan Sukhdev, environmental economist, and Gretchen C Daily, conservation biologist, will share this year’s ‘Nobel Prize for the Environment’

Budget 2020-21: Climate Change must be mainstreamed

But there is much potential for big-ticket schemes focusing on low-tech solutions suited to India

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 30, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal