Environment ministry wants to restore night traffic through Bandipur tiger reserve

Karnataka High Court had banned traffic in the area from 9 pm to 6 am following deaths of tigers and elephants in vehicular accidents

Ublic outcry greets uranium mining project in AP

"There is radiation everywhere on earth. Mining in Nalgonda will not increase it." This comment of S D Prasad, adviser to public sector …

Degree of commerce

Vedanta gets tracts of thorium-rich land along the Orissa coast for a university. Allegations fly

Is Internet really free?

The Internet, it is believed, is vital to democracy, a channel that makes possible a continuous worldwide conversation. Its a veritable global …

Delhi High Court reserves order on plea seeking junk food ban in schools

Industry argues against amicus curiae’s recommendations

Celebrities liable for commercials

Consumer protection council sets up committee to regulate contents of advertisements

Lavasa accepts green riders, finally

It had challenged the conditions, saying it would amount to guilt  

Valley of despair

Unrestrained chromite mining takes Sukinda valley to the edge of an abyss

Rogue illusionists

A village crops up in the heart of a forest as three government employees cook the books

Gensets under check

Is it the end?

For two historical water bodies in Hyderabad

Salt of the earth

Bombay HC stays Centre's notification on iodised salt

Goa village wins compensation for fields scarred by mining

Amul loses its sugar-free market

Tamil Nadu and Kerala slug it out over Mullaperiyar dam

Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project cleared

Courting trouble

Orissa calling

Bangalore lakes leased out

Flood on hilltop

Unplanned development is leading to floods in Lonavala. This can stop if the municipality declares it a hill station

Where are rural courts?

The Gram Nyayalaya Act was passed in 2008 to make the judicial process participatory, inexpensive and accessible to rural India. But rural courts …

Cycle ban in Kolkata: activists petition high court

Police and transport department ignored months of protests by users of non-motorised transport

Commissioning of Kudankulam nuclear power plant challenged in court

Petition filed in Madras High Court says atomic regulator's decision violates Supreme Court directions on safety

High court halts seizure of Ganesha idols by Nagpur civic agency

Municipal corporation rapped for delaying ban on plaster of Paris idols that pollute the city's water bodies

Tourism to be prohibited in Jarawa reserve

Cabinet approves regulation declaring five km reserved area inhabited by the aboriginal tribe as buffer zone