THE FOUNTAINHEAD DONGRIPARA, DHAMTARI DISTRICT, CHATTISGARH

Spark came from non-recognition as a village • Integrated management of forest and water • Sees self-governance as a matter of …

A memo to the government

To be a truly participatory republic, India must take tutorials from these tiny republics

In Birsa's Land: Horomocho (Hazaribagh, Jharkhand)

A coal mine to own and manage • Sustainability not profit as a principle • Revival of an ancient Santhal system of governance

Unshakable: Nimalapedu (Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh)

Reminded India of its constitutional mandate for village autonomy • Fought bauxite companies for not getting gram sabha consent • Has …

A Republican Paradise: Mendha (Gadchirolli, Maharashtra)

Defied the Forest Act ÔÇó Every resident contributes part of annual income for community works ÔÇó If somebody bribes a …

Whose germplasm is it?

NBA struggles to frame case against Mahyco in first biopiracy case

Pentavalent vaccine approved in five more states. Health ministry brushes aside safety concerns

Four children in Kerala reportedly died immediately after the vaccine was administered

Centre pitches for Kerala

Environment ministry wants to revoke Karnataka’s ban on night traffic in Bandipur  

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 3, 2020)

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

Village to move court against Bengaluru civic body for illegal garbage dumping

Police enforce Section 144 to prevent protests

Grim reminder

A fleeting reappearance of plague exposes India's lack of preparedness

Saseendran’s ‘tiger cull’: Kerala forest minister made a gaffe; but state’s human-wildlife conflict needs redressal

Removing invasive plants, restoring vanishing wildlife corridors and eco-restoration inside forests should be the solution to human-wildlife …

Going off course

As the Cauvery river dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu gets reduced to a politico-legal wrangle, focal issues remain unaddressed

Forestry, the Mexican way

Karnataka lost Rs 3,000 crore due to illegal mining: CAG

Performance audit report unveils mining irregularities in the state

Governance failure

How agencies meant to regulate mining conspired in the loot

Wages of fear: How did COVID-19 geographic shift affect MGNREGA implementation?

The understanding should be part of India’s contingency plan to support rural livelihoods in the event of a third wave of the pandemic

The right blend

Ethanol, a safer alternative to MTBE, will now be mixed with petrol to curb emissions. Lopamudra Banerjee analyses the impact of this environment-…

Shifting ground

After cracking the whip on mining offenders, CEC is now going easy on them

Ailing systems

Hospital waste management suffers from poor understanding and even poorer implementation

Monsoon 2020: Rains advance over Peninsular India from June 1-7

India received 70% more rains during this week than it usually does at this time  

Karnataka pollution board halts dumping of Bengaluru's garbage at Ramky landfill

Gives operators three months to clean up the area

Reserved for exploitation?

Karnataka repeatedly refuses to declare its forests in Western Ghats inviolate

Sugar cane price: UP farmers settle for Rs 245-250 per quintal

Karnataka and Maharashtra farmers get much less, stage protests  

Karnataka High Court stalls link road through eco-sensitive zone

'EIA should be conducted to decide if road can be built or should be scrapped'