News 360° - Briefs

DANGER zone

If no action is taken soon, a major ecological disaster is waiting to strike Panipat

Environment ministry revokes stop work notice on Dhari Devi temple relocation

Supreme Court rebukes ministry for arbit stop work notice

Misguided rules

Environment ministry framed guidelines which violate Forest Rights Act

In the name of the tiger

The current conservation model has led to increased human-wildlife conflicts

Tiger reserved

Tiger tourism booms without proper regulation; new guidelines attempt to contain damage

No consensus on FRA review

Top forest officials and National Forest Rights Act Committee engage in a war of words

News 360° - Briefs

Letters

Clean up or close down

Threatened with closure on grounds of pollution, Palam Potteries adopted a waste minimisation method that brought down its smoke emissions and …

The trouble with the Trapezmium

A public interest petition in the Supreme Court to shift industries from the Taj Trapezium, based on a report forwarded by the National …

Addis Ababa’s street hustlers helped build the city – now they’re being pushed out

Both the intellectualism of the elites and the street smarts of hustlers and sex workers transformed the neighbourhood of Arada into a social and …

Carry on polluters

Some factories in Delhi are flouting a Supreme Court order to relocate polluting factories. Meanwhile, over 50,000 workers have been rendered …

Labour pains

Birla Textile Mill in Himachal Pradesh is yet to pay dues to 2,300 workers. The unit was 'shifted' from Delhi for causing pollution

The trouble with the Trapezmium

A public interest petition in the Supreme Court to shift industries from the Taj Trapezium, based on a report forwarded by the National …

A new home

A tale of four rhinos from Nepal's Royal Chitwan National Park to bardia, 600 kilometres away, the rhinos are forced to live in a new place for …

Climate change intensifies migration

Over 12,700 people worldwide died or went missing as a result of natural and man-mad disasters in 2014, says a new study

Defining moment

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

Villagers protest relocation of stone-crushers

Ordered by the Supreme Court to shift stone-crushers from the Delhi-Faridabad border, officials have arbitrarily moved them to a nearby village, …

Law and disorder

The present unrest in Delhi has little to do with industrial pollution or loss of livelihoods. The way in which the government has chosen to act …

On shifting sands

Thousands in Bihar prepare to migrate, again, as the Kosi changes course

Sealed fate

The de-sealing drive of the Delhi government is yet to take-off as a bureaucratic maze greets factory owners

A village crippled by fluorosis

Government offers Rs 25,000 each to 109 BPL families to relocate; villagers turn down the offer

Leopards in my backyard

India is the only country where high densities of people and livestock share space with carnivores

Tanzania has moved its capital from Dar after a 50-year wait — but is Dodoma ready?

The new presidential offices in Dodoma were inaugurated in May 2023, 50 years after a public referendum