Mounting Evidence, Collapsing Public Health

How not to lose all

In Short

Democracy must be worked at

Letters

Partial ban

New rules ban metalised plastic only in tobacco sachets

Smoked out

DESTROYING WATERBODIES

Industrial discharge: seaward ho!

As rivers spill over, the sea becomes the new dumping destination in coastal Gujarat

INDIA

Targets or Diktats?

India: Aim, Hope High

Opting for renewables

The civil spring

Have an aggressive government and an overreaching judiciary curbed dissent?

Act to make Coca-Cola pay

Kerala passes law on tribunal to secure compensation for victims of bottling plant

ILLEGAL QUARRYING

VANISHING LAKES

Last ditch attempt

UPA gives sops under MGNREGS to attract rural voters ahead of elections

Big tobacco blows new smoke rings

A third front has opened up in their war on Australia’s cigarette packaging rules

Ban toxic imports: court

Supreme Court wants hazardous waste rules aligned with Basel Convention

Liability sans facility

Draft rules ask health centres to ensure their waste is treated  

FLUOROSIS PROBLEM

Targets or diktats?

India: aim, hope high

Opting for renewables