ANIMAL TESTING

AGAINST AQUACULTURE

JUDICIOUS DECISION

Jaya-baalu feud

Eviction order

In Court

In the dock

Ex-CJI faces contempt case

Rights issue resurfaces

Another panchayat's stand endorsed by Kerala HC

Cold furnaces

West Bengal kilns asked to shut down to save mangoes

In contempt

Cola companies reprimanded

Court cracks down

Nothing gay about section 377

Five star emergency

Centre leaves decision on Section 377 to SC

The apex court was told by the Centre that it won’t contest the petitions seeking to decriminalise homosexuality 

Is Vedanta trying to re-enter Sterlite through the leak?

The conglomerate blames the government for the sulphuric acid leak and demands that power supply be restored in the plant

Invasive species may soon wipe out Shola vegetation from Nilgiris: Report

Alarming expansion of exotic and tea plantations threaten native dry deciduous, moist deciduous and thorn forests and grasslands there

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week

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

Chennai oil spill: planning, assessment and action inadequate

The extent of ecological and economic damange is yet to be known and coordination between the maritime board, the state disaster response …

Punjab’s panchayat flip-flop

State considers reverting to direct polls, court raps it for taking away right to recall sarpanch

High court eases loudspeaker ban

Knight Riders cheer; green activists see red

TURN DOWN VOLUME

Sponge iron(y)

Orissa turning into a haven for the hazardous industry

Court slaps contempt notice on MCI, health ministry

Medical Council of India failed to start rural health practitioner course

Junk food in schools: Centre gets a week to circulate action taken report

Food processing industry is also a party in the petition

Centre in a fix over court ruling on minimum wage to NREGS workers

Workers in other states could take cue from Karnataka