Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 6, 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 (March 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 (March 19, 2020)

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

When judges copy

Should the rules on plagiarism matter as much as the independent analysis made by judges in adjudicating cases?

SC stays Uttarakhand HC order declaring Ganga, Yamuna living entities

The Uttarakhand government had challenged the order on the ground that the victims of floods in the Ganga and Yamuna could sue the guardians of …

No IPL matches in Maharashtra after April 30, orders Bombay High Court

The court ruled that the water crisis in the state could be solved if water used in maintaining cricket pitches was diverted to drought-affected …

A mistake of judgment

Pioneering though the work has been, judicial activism has restricted the growth of a responsible and independent bureaucracy

Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Chhattisgarh can now access contraceptives

High Court quashes decades-old practice of denying rights to Baigas and other tribes

MOBILE BAN

PLEA DISMISSED

Dissolution Directive

Fancy dress?

Bioceramic clothes in vogue in Kerala, but experts sceptical

Coke in hot water

Has the flood opened their eyes?

The Bombay HC order protects mangroves

Chhattisgarh High Court prevents PSU from evicting forest rights title holders

Chhattisgarh Mineral Development Corporation had started mining in Sarguja district’s Pathrai village, where 50 Individual Forest Rights …

Ajodhya villagers, forest dwellers stop Bengal govt project at court for now

The state government acquired the land for Turga Pumped Storage Project illegally, ruled the Calcutta high court

Delhi HC directs environment ministry to prepare action plan on e-waste inventory

The ministry is asked to look into Centre for Science and Environment's report and prepare an action plan in two months on how an inventory of e-…

Delhi HC asks city authorities if there is a policy to dispose toxic e-waste

The court expressed concern over the rising e-waste in the capital city and asked the municipal bodies and government whether there was a policy …

Two die during an eviction drive in Kaziranga National Park

Without making any arrangements to accommodate the displaced, police fire tear gas on people resisting eviction

Bombay High Court allows inaugural IPL match to commence

Questions the timing of the petition filed against water being provided to cricket stadia for IPL matches in drought-hit Maharashtra

Not testing the waters

Case filed against British geological body for not providing information on arsenic contamination in Bangladesh's wells

Indian law caught in web

Can Information Technology Act deal with the dynamics of the Net?

FARMERS PLIGHT

HC frowns at felling

AQUACULTURE CURB