Maheshwar dam land acquisition award lapses as developer fails to cough up rehabilitation amount

Officials not clear about the fate of the project

Planning Commission push to health care privatisation

Draft 12th Five Year Plan proposes contracting-in and PPP in public health services

Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on HPV vaccines for cervical cancer

Gardasil and Cervarix were approved by drugs controller even though they are unproven and hazardous, alleges petition

Doha debates Kyoto Protocol

No market benefits for developed countries that are not part of Kyoto Protocol, developing countries demand

US court frees Union Carbide of liability in Bhopal gas disaster case

Company need not pay for environmental remediation or pollution-related claims, says district judge

Asia-Pacific’s automobile companies discussed EVs 28% more in 2022 than last year, data shows

Indian companies held the most discussions on electric vehicles, according to analytics company GlobalData  

CAG: Adani-acquired forested creeks wrongly classified as degraded forests

As per the Supreme Court’s classification of forests, Adani destroyed 2,000 hectares of mangroves in Kutch to build its ports, says the new …

New financing facility to help poor countries reach 2015 development goal

Additional funds will speed up progress on women and child health in developing countries

Karnataka pollution board halts dumping of Bengaluru's garbage at Ramky landfill

Gives operators three months to clean up the area

Karnataka High Court stalls link road through eco-sensitive zone

'EIA should be conducted to decide if road can be built or should be scrapped'

Whose homeland security?

Why Shell’s proposed oil exploration in the Arctic is making news

A recent business announcement by Shell and persistent protests by environment activists have added to the uncertainty over the oil exploration …

People in distress get little relief

Centre to give Rs 6,687 crore to Uttarakhand for building and reconstruction projects. How much of it will reach people?

Uttarakhand rain data to be used for improved cloudburst forecast

Model developed by scientists at ISRO's Space Applications Centre got some predictions about cloudbursts on June 16 right

Bhopal protesters knock on Dow Chemical's door in Mumbai

Demand clean up of toxins in soil and water around Union Carbide plant, production of absconding corporation officials before Indian court

Coca Cola, Pepsi and Snapple to cut 20% calories in beverages over 10 years

Move follows widespread public concern about increasing obesity in the US

Communities make oil giants pay for pollution

Indigenous people of Nigeria, Peru take on oil giants; BP pays for its pollution

Raise tax on diesel cars

Proliferating diesel cars are a public health risk and drain the exchequer

New regulations proposed for determining renewable energy tariff

Power producers demand higher benchmark prices for cost components

Ragpickers oppose waste to energy plants

Say studies have shown that Indian waste is unfit for the purpose

Reform in fossil fuel subsidy is a mitigation opportunity

Money saved from the phasing out of fuel subsidies can be used for social and development programmes

Obama visit: civil society appeals to Modi not to succumb to US pressure on IP laws

US actions jeopardise India’s pro-poor patent laws that promote generic drugs production, says online global petition

Experts meet in London to understand disaster risks

Over 800 experts attend Understanding Risk Forum in an attempt to 'produce actionable information'

Polio cases rattle WHO

Of the 74 cases reported worldwide this year, 59 were from Pakistan. No case in India so far

Lawsuit in US shows fresh evidence to nail Union Carbide role in Bhopal gas disaster

Previous lawsuit by gas disaster survivors was dismissed by US court for lack of sufficient evidence to show company was liable for environmental …