Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 12, 2024)

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

Varsha-GD

Panchayat s in Karnataka can now gauge rainfall

Simply Put: Cauvery dispute

Surviving on wood

Collecting fuelwood provides a basis for survival for the poor around Dharwar

The four pillars of panchayati raj

Homing in the forest

Incomplete success

Second roundtable of state ministers on panchayati raj

Flowing with the Kaveri

Scent of the fruit king

In Court

This town in Karnataka has its very own Central Park

The Gubbi Tree Park, inaugurated recently by the Tumakuru Forest Division in Karnataka, has shone a light on creating state-of-the-art green …

A motley crew of forest protectors

In Karnataka's Kodagu district, a group of people battling timber traders trying to exploit their region's virgin forests has earned the wrath of …

Women in power

Women elected to panchayats in Karnataka and Rajasthan function in two ways: some live up to expectations and other succumb to the pressures

Project brings cheap cement to the village

Narasimharaju's dream of providing inexpensive cement for rural use will come true when his plant starts production later this year.

Seeds of progress

An NGO in Karnataka is endeavouring to make poor farmers self-reliant in managing and sustaining land development projects in Kolar district

Schooled in self-rule

What do tribal children living in Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka learn at school? Take pride in what they are, reports NITIN SETHI

Crop of debt

Surplus sugar production in the country has brought down sugar rates. As mills stop purchasing sugarcane, farmers are driven to suicide

Govt must rethink railway projects in Uttara Kannada

Uttara Kannada is home to not just a diverse number of flora and fauna, but also ancient cultures

Still no relief

After Veerappan, granite mining troubles

Another new strain

Cauvery: manage demand, not supply

CLIMB DOWN

Cyclone Tauktae likely to hit coastal Gujarat

It may make landfall in Gujarat by the evening of May 18

Buckling under pressure

By the skin of their teeth