SC begins hearing curative petition in Bhopal gas tragedy

Raps CBI for approaching court after a gap of 16 years

Open cast mining threatens Assam

Checks on drug trials

Court intervention prompts guidelines for drug trials. Pharmaceutical companies lobby to dilute them

Package POSCO

The Odisha government is trying to acquire land on a shoddily drawn compensation package

Ethics on trial

Five per cent of the clinical trials conducted across the world will be in India by 2012. They are vital for confirming the efficacy of a new drug,…

SC notices on Bhopal gas disaster compensation

Issues notices to Union Carbide, Dow Chemicals on Centre's plea seeking enhancement in compensation 

Subterranean Leak

25 years after the gas leak, another tragedy is unfolding in Bhopal. CSE tests reveal the water and soil in and around the Union Carbide factory …

HUL and mercury-exposed workers in Kodaikanal reach an out-of-court settlement

The settlement is historic as families of 591 workers have opted for an ex-gratia payment by the company for all that they endured while getting …

Madhya Pradesh government cracks down on Indira Sagar dam oustees

They were staging jal satyagraha to demand land compensation and reduction in reservoir water level

Owen Corning to settle all claims on asbestos damage

In Court

Waterbullying to sink 20 villages

Treasure in troubled land

International aid has supported the economy of Afghanistan for 12 years. With aid flow gradually declining, the war-torn country will now have to …

Farmers on hunger protest against land acquisition for IIT-Patna

Accuse government of cheating them of adequate compensation

Elephantine block

A wall to keep elephants at bay ends up alienating people in an Uttarakhand village

IN PHOTOS: People of Plachimada ask UN to drop Coca-Cola as COP27 sponsor

People in Plachimada in Kerala’s Palakkad district have also been on a ‘satyagraha’ for 88 days now

Joint committee favours endosulfan exports

Cites lack of pesticide disposal facility

Periyar river's pollution is Eloor's bane

SC declines mining clearance to Vedanta

Barmer farmers protest Jindal power project

Kono diamond mining suspended

Saharias face exile, again

Displaced from Kuno wildlife sanctuary earlier, the tribe is being evicted again for a dam

Serious flaws in the government’s population control policy

Women fall victim to failed sterilisation, while the government remains unaware of this missing link in population surge

Land Bill gets new name and many amendments

States get freedom to decide whether land under multi-crop is to be acquired

Ecuador decides to forgo tapping major oil fields, seeks compensation