Sterlite Copper in Thoothukudi to remain shut: Madras HC

It also dismissed all petitions for the plant to resume operations

Supreme Court turns down plea to ban PET bottles, packaging

Environmentalists say fresh studies suggest they may be harmful to health

Whose corridor is it?

A proposed elephant corridor has turned eco-sensitive Sigur plataeu into a war zone

Accreditation scheme on hold

Karnataka High Court stays accreditation of consultants who assess environmental impact

Madhya Pradesh HC chides Centre over delayed union carbide toxic report

The report was to be submitted on January 9

Jaitapur nuclear protests: activist leader gets externment notice

Vaishali Patil says administration has been continuously harassing protesters

No lip service on junk food ban: Delhi HC

Asks Centre to file an action taken report by November 2

True measure of growth

Farmers face police wrath, 3 killed

75 villages protest government decision to give their water to Pune  

Policy draft backs new vaccines

Health experts say new vaccines not essential enough to be in the national programme

High Court’s blow to Lavasa

Are pills doctored?

A Punjab resident holds inferior quality drugs responsible for his son's serious illness

On a strong wicket

Perumatty panchayat's case is statutorily sound

Cola and the paddy farmer

Whose water is it, anyway?

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 17, 2020)

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

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (April 15-19)

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

Lucknow’s waterbodies perish at the hands of unregulated construction

Land records of Lucknow Nagar Nigam state the city has 964 tanks and ponds, a majority of which are unidentifiable due to reclamation

Gujarat high court orders fencing of water bodies in Thatlej area

In the absence of proper protection laws, the city’s lakes are becoming vulnerable to encroachments and building activity, say activists

Delhi hospitals freed of poor

Delhi High Court exempts four private hospitals from treating the poor for free. Experts fear other hospitals will follow

Pollution may be higher in Kolkata this Diwali

Noise level standards were relaxed for firecrackers in West Bengal following recent orders of the National Green Tribunal

The Microsoft way

Wherein an Indian firm using pirated Microsoft software here is sued in the US by California state for using unfair trade advantage

Ban on junk food in plastic bags

Himachal court tells state to stop sale of non-essential items in non-biodegradable packs

Beyond Sharing: Towards our digital futures

The battle is not about file sharing and a petty film producer wanting to rake in the box office earnings. It is about the law’s incapacity …

Ban lifted on fishing in Sutlej

Discharge of effluents into the river had caused large-scale fish deaths, leading to the curbs

Adrift and Isolated

A proposed blanket ban on scientific prawn culture in Chilika lake is a total let-down for the fiskerfolk