Warning signal

Telecom service providers’ study shows mobile phone towers are safe. But are they?

Child workers want their unions recognised

The registrar of trade unions has refused to acknowledge the Bal Mazdoor Union (BMU), an association of working children in Delhi. Though the …

Sequel to a murder story

It is dangerous to breathe in most Indian cities, and even though the government accepts this, precious little is being done about it

Opinions

DTE sought the comments of legal luminaries and journalists on some issues that emerged out of this analysis. The individuals whose opinions …

The verdict

What the judiciary needs to do is to put the heat on the regulatory and executive agencies of the country and improve the country's environmental …

Span Resorts: motel mayhem

Was the motel owned by a former environment minister's relatives really responsible for destroying the pristine banks of the Beas? The apex …

Delhi ridge: a lifeline in danger

Encroachments - by the poor and the rich alike - are proving to be the ridge's bane. The malady is monumental, and the court's healing touch has …

Patancheru: water woes

While the apex court has brought to Patancheru's effluent-riddled land some relief in the forms of compensation and drinking water, it has not …

Victims of dirty air, all

Physicians, environmentalists and residents of Delhi share a platform to vent their anger over the city's polluted air

Heat and death

Summer is only just setting in. And already there are reports of deaths in Orissa due to a heat wave

Driven by the market

There is more to profit from alternative fuel technologies than meeting emission norms with conventional fuels. But is the industry listening?

Defining moment

Even as the government goes about sealing industrial units in Delhi, confusion reigns over what's polluting

Yamuna clean-up project - Inaction plan

the March 31, 2003, deadline set by the Supreme Court (sc) for cleaning the 22-kilometre Delhi stretch of Yamuna river has come and gone. Yet the …

Violent homecoming

10,000 families from Delhi's Yamuna Pushta slums were 'resettled' in Bawana this March. NIDHI JAMWAL went to meet them

Medical education in India does not address larger social needs for health care

Medical education is in the news for all the wrong reasons. The government's decision to extend reservations in institutions of higher education …

SC takes cognisance of alarming increase in air pollution in Delhi

Centre for Science and Environment welcomes apex court’s decision to accelerate priority measures to cut toxic vehicular emissions and air …

Supreme Court upholds pollution levy on trucks entering Delhi

The apex court will give an order on Monday based on directions prepared by amicus curiae

Delhi loses air pollution control race to Beijing: Centre for Science and Environment

Delhi faces the same challenge of cleaning up its air as Beijing, but lacks aggression and stringency of action needed to protect public health

Delhi's poll planks

G20 Summit: Good progress on easing debt in Zambia, Ethiopia & Ghana, says finance minister

India releases G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration stating developing countries would need $5.8-5.9 trillion up to 2030 to …

Stubble burning, dust from West put an end to north India’s clean air

The region had experienced clean skies during the COVID-19 lockdown, but now, particulate matters have again increased

Who will repay loans for Delhi airport Metro, Reliance or DMRC?

Banks that helped build the most expensive and first public-private partnership Metro line in the country say it is a non-performing asset

Delhi's water supply skewed and mismanaged

Is the Haryana government really to be blamed for Delhi's water shortage? The answer perhaps lies in understanding the disparity in water supply …

Deteriorating air quality in Delhi and Dhaka, as smog envelops both capitals

Bangladesh has been urged by the World Bank to clean up the air by coordinating more closely with its south Asian neighbours

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 27, 2023)

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