Sugar-stricken

Reducing the intake of sugar as per the World Health Organization's recommendation is a must to lower the risk of non-communicable diseases

SC: Farmers, not banks, have first right over proceeds from sugar sales

Apex court confirms Allahabad High Court order, citing concerns over farmer suicides due to non-recovery of dues

Dumping garbage in rivers is now a crime in Maharashtra

Bombay High Court orders municipalities to register cases and take action against anyone who violates the law

Everybody loves waterbody

Amid murder of an activist, 4,000 missing ponds and 195 FIRs on encroachments in East Kolkata Wetlands, West Bengal mulls a wetland policy

Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata get a green spin

New eco-friendly themes like why Hilsa is vanishing from the rivers of West Bengal prove to be a hit

Raw Deal

Scepticism hangs over Kerala's Tribal Rehabilitation and Development Mission and its master plan

Blackbuck case: Supreme Court sets aside high court stay on Salman Khan’s conviction

With this order, Khan will not be allowed to travel abroad

Invasion of tiger reserve

Are religious pilgrimages only about faith and religion?

Degree without honours

Parliamentary committee turns down a proposed three-year course in rural health

Nirma loses wetland

Environment ministry revokes clearance to its cement plant

Village refuses to part with forest

People near Chennai plan protest against industrial estate

Apex court spanner in Nirma cement plant

Water distribution of Rajsamand Lake in Rajasthan cause of rift

Andaman Trunk Road ignores SC order, affects Jarawas' lives

Tata offers to take up Bhopal gas tragedy liability

Two tribal villages get 2,349 hectares

Shut and opened

Supreme Court allows canal work

Overrules high court on Narmada irrigation projects

Prosperity, thorns, a village road: Ground report from Khodgaon (near Rowghat iron ore reserve)

A road in national interest: Despite its opposition, a tribal village sees a road cut right through it to mine one of India’s biggest iron-…

Pollution emergency demands urgent action

The odd and even scheme has helped to arrest the peaking of pollution in Delhi when hostile weather—no-wind condition, dipping of …

The fortnight in brief

Himachal villages are first to claim forests rights, J&K's Russian poplars to be felled, Delhi's increasing appetite for power …

Karnataka cancels leases of two mini hydel projects in Western Ghats

Developer Maruthi Power Gen had fudged facts to show one project as two to circumvent clearances from Centre

Andhra HC dismisses petitions against law to regulate micro-finance companies

Suggests state government should review the law enacted in the wake of suicides by rural borrowers

Gurgaon expansion halted

High court bars authorities from sanctioning new real estate projects to curb rampant groundwater exploitation    

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (September 7-11, 2020)

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