Stem the flow

Fishing rights row

Goa trawler owners' protest against fishing ban during monsoon proves to be a damp squib

Rivers of dispute

Quiet flow the rivers as politics make their waters murky

Illegally yours

Increasing incidence of lawlessness shows hand of corruption

VACCINE UNDER WATCH

PATENTING PLANTS

Right to food upheld

Mining operations - Haryana warned

In Court

Fair play

Patent protest

Possible drug price hike: apex court acts on appeals

At a tangent

Authorities misdiagnose Gurgaon's water problems

Delhi factories' fate sealed

Apex court rules out industries from residential areas

Patent mess

Wheat's the problem

Status change

Bamboo as agro-product

Tribals suffer

South Asia

Sabarimala verdict paves way for discussion on menstruation, religion

Since religion is a product of society, taboos may vanish with changing mentality, only if people open their minds to it

Will you be doomed if GM mustard is not approved now, apex court asks Centre

The SC, on the second day of hearing, sought details on the Union government’s claim of GM mustard being a herbicide-tolerant crop  

The Supreme Court is sending wrong signals on post facto environmental clearances

Recently, the apex court has overlooked its own judgments and the underlying logic behind why there is a mechanism for environmental …

Nimmalapadu’s protracted struggle: Despite legal win, 3 Andhra tribal villages fight to save land from mining

Villagers near Andhra-Odisha border are fighting the state for calcite reserves two decades after securing Supreme Court victory 

Assault on open access to science in India

Elsevier, Wiley and American Chemical Society have pleaded in front of Delhi High Court that ISPs block Sci-Hub and Libgen websites in India

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 20, 2020)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 13, 2020)

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

Farmers in Punjab are burning stubble as an act of rebellion

They are angry that even as they suffer from farm distress and do not get any proper returns on their labour and produce, the onus of stubble …