Saranda for sale?

First by diluting it and then by delaying it, the Jharkhand government ensures slow death of a plan meant to safeguard Saranda and its wildlife …

Ban paves the way

The bar on polluting brick kilns opens up opportunities for cleaner technologies

Will Delhi High Court help 7-year-old avail expensive therapy for rare genetic disease?

Child’s lawyer says it’s a test case—common citizens have right to good healthcare and life as much as people in high office

High court stays land acquisition for Kovvada nuclear power plant

Petitioner alleges violation of norms, demands land acquisition should be permitted only after environmental clearances are secured

Supreme Court presses for better health facilities for Bhopal gas victims

Asks Centre and Madhya Pradesh government to implement standard treatment protocols, and make public studies on the disaster-affected people

MoEF clears mining in 36 new sand reaches in Andhra

Move effectively overrules high court stay; approved sand reaches fall in districts acutely affected by overexploitation of river sand

Jairam Ramesh withdraws guidelines violating FRA

Fresh guidelines for creating Critical wildlife Habitat to be prepared in consultation with Tribal Affairs ministry

No consensus on FRA review

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

In court

Prepaid water meters unconstitutional

Plan that isn’t

NCR Planning Board dilutes environmental safeguards to promote towns, industries

Food industry challenges validity of panel for junk food sale in schools

Health activists say court petition an attempt to scuttle process of ensuring healthy food in schools

POSCO faces fresh litigation, protest

Uncertainty looms over its $12 billion steel plant project in Odisha

NGT order clears way for Nirma cement plant at cost of wetland

Tribunal has set aside revocation of environmental clearance to Nirma Limited’s proposed cement plant

Desperate to relocate

Chetty communities living in the core area of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve have been demanding that they be shifted out of the forest for three decades.…

Lavasa above law

Lavasa continues to bypass norms. But the environment ministry may give clearance to the the maiden planned hill city in India, Sakshi C Dasgupta …

Suzlon, Lavasa raised loans from the company named in bribery scam

Scam led to arrest of several top officials of public sector banks

Gutkha sympathiser

Enforcement agencies had a busy year. They were tough at times, lenient at others

Supreme Court orders incineration of Bhopal's toxic waste at non-functional treatment facility in Dhar district

Madhya Pradesh government and activists fighting for Bhopal gas victims to file review petition

1.2 million children in Karnataka are malnourished, state tells high court

Civil rights groups blame packaged food supplied to anganwadis 

POSCO villages resist land acquisition by Odisha government

Despite protests administration demolishes 37 betel gardens on the forestland. Land acquistion put on hold till June 17

Addicted to groundwater

High Court order fails to wean Gurgaon off illegal wells

IN COURT

South Asia

Red Bull untamed

Caffeine content in energy drinks go unchecked