Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 20, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Simply Put: Joshimath Rehabilitation
Simply Put: Wild humans
Delhi High Court orders J&J to pay 67 hip implant patients Rs 25 lakh each
Activists term compensation as eyewash, say the case is still on
Simply Put: Zero Compensation
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 16, 2024)
Nearly 80 mln displaced globally by 2019-end, half of them children: UNHCR
Fewer displaced people have been able to return to their homes in 2019
From 1999 super cyclone to Cyclone Biparjoy: What more needs to be done to make communities disaster resilient
National governments, including India, need to go beyond minimalistic compensations
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 19, 2024)
The problem with Kerala’s compensation rules for human-wildlife conflict
Lack of accessibility and clarity and red tapism are some of the lacunae in the State law
Heatwave: Passing phase or a natural calamity?
It is time heatwaves are treated as a natural calamity and some form of compensation system is devised while investing more in creating more …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 16, 2022)
Namibia to pay $8,297 to relatives of people killed by wild animals
However, families whose kin have been killed by crocodiles and hippos while swimming and bathing in rivers won’t get any compensation
Bhopal gas tragedy: SC dismisses Centre’s plea for additional compensation from Union Carbide
Government should use the Rs 50 crore lying with the Reserve Bank of India to settle further claims, SC ordered
Families of 120 of 121 doctors who died of COVID-19 in Bihar yet to get compensation
The delay in compensation have demoralised doctors who are living in fear after the recent spate of deaths in the state
Odisha’s hiked ex-gratia for deaths due to attacks by wild animals insufficient? Experts think so
The revision of financial assistance for animal depredation comes after almost a decade
Compensate Telangana farmers immediately for crop loss: Farm activists
The Rythu Swarajya Vedika called on both Centre and state, to bury their hatchet and ensure disaster relief to lakhs of affected farmers
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 18, 2022)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 17, 2022)
Mahanadi Coalfields land oustees to get compensation, resettlement and rehabilitation
Land acquired for mining in 1988; Compensation to be disbursed to 4 villages under the R&R Act, 2013
Hailstones ‘as big as berries’: Farmers in MP’s Niwari district suffer immense crop losses
Cold weather in Madhya Pradesh due to western disturbances expected to last till January 12
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 15, 2022)
NGT order on Jindal Steel & Power in March was a landmark. Here’s why
RS 160 cr fine headlines fixing of responsibility; recognition to locals’ grivances
As told to Parliament (December 23, 2022): India building 11 nuclear power reactors with 8,700 MW capacity
India currently has 22 nuclear reactors with an installed nuclear power capacity of 6,780 megawatts, Jitendra Singh tells Rajya Sabha
Union Budget 2020-2021: Solar units to be set up on fallow, railway lands
Move may affect afforestation to meet India's international commitments
