Lavasa accepts green riders, finally

It had challenged the conditions, saying it would amount to guilt  

Valley of despair

Unrestrained chromite mining takes Sukinda valley to the edge of an abyss

Rogue illusionists

A village crops up in the heart of a forest as three government employees cook the books

Gensets under check

Is it the end?

For two historical water bodies in Hyderabad

Flood on hilltop

Unplanned development is leading to floods in Lonavala. This can stop if the municipality declares it a hill station

Where are rural courts?

The Gram Nyayalaya Act was passed in 2008 to make the judicial process participatory, inexpensive and accessible to rural India. But rural courts …

Cycle ban in Kolkata: activists petition high court

Police and transport department ignored months of protests by users of non-motorised transport

Commissioning of Kudankulam nuclear power plant challenged in court

Petition filed in Madras High Court says atomic regulator's decision violates Supreme Court directions on safety

High court halts seizure of Ganesha idols by Nagpur civic agency

Municipal corporation rapped for delaying ban on plaster of Paris idols that pollute the city's water bodies

Tourism to be prohibited in Jarawa reserve

Cabinet approves regulation declaring five km reserved area inhabited by the aboriginal tribe as buffer zone

Endosulfan declared not guilty

Good news for the ever manipulative pesticide industry: the Dubey committee -- a panel of experts set up by the Registration Committee of the …

Corporate wastelands

Tamil Nadu seems set to gift community land to corporates under the name of wasteland regeneration

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

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