Real estate on water

Lakes were critical for Indian cities. They prevented floods and recharged groundwater. Today, these holes in the ground are either lucrative …

Railways pulled up over scavengers

A draft bill allows employing manual scavengers if they are provided protective gears

Gujarat industries under scrutiny

Court asks government to ascertain workers’ safety

Devise action plan to tackle malnutrition deaths: Bombay HC

Over 600 tribal children have died so far

Maharashtra soft on Lavasa?

Yet to implement environment ministry’s order on the project

Defective blood-test kits in West Bengal

Order on production ban of coke in Kerala quashed

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Ban on grazing hits Raikas community hard

Naini Lake polluted by sewage and construction waste

Maharashtra rejects court's traffic plan

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 9, 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 (April 18, 2019)

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

Subterranean Leak

The CSE tests had found high levels of groundwater and soil contamination in and around the Union Carbide factory

Junk food sale in schools: FSSAI panel frames weak guidelines

'Draft guidelines submitted in Delhi High Court will not serve the purpose of saving children from junk food'

Supreme Court orders removal of illegal residential colony from Corbett

Colony land, meant to be a temporary habitation, had been affecting movement of animals in the forest

Contempt notice to Karnataka chief secretary in lakes protection case

Top state bureaucrat failed to set up lake protection committees to check encroachment, pollution and destruction of lakes in the state

Rapid transit for BRT corridors

Delhi High Court dismisses plea to scrap bus rapid transit corridors; state plans 14 more

High Court allows sale of PoP Ganesh idols in Nagpur

They are to be immersed only in artificial tanks

Supreme Court takes note of abuse of tribals

Orders Madhya Pradesh to constitute grievance redressal authorities in tribal districts

Google, Facebook officials exempted from personal appearance in trial court

High court defers hearing till May in view of similar ongoing cases in Supreme Court

Environmental issues figured nowhere in Uttarakhand elections

Around 170 hydropower and a number of sand mining projects in the pipeline or underway

Yesterday once more

Unsafe cleanup of the Carbide factory revives memories of Bhopal's tragedy

Himachal's tree sanction policy is flawed

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