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By allowing high-rises around an advanced weather radar in Mumbai, IMD sets a bad example for the rest of the country

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 4, 2020)

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

Last mile chaos

New Delhi struggles with a policy to regulate e-rickshaws

Spanner on Mumbai's free floor space project

Builders exploit civic administration's plan, make fortunes

Ugly is the new beautiful

A group of anonymous citizens in Bengaluru is cleaning filthy streets and inspiring change across India

Parched capital

While Delhi struggles to make rainwater harvesting compulsory even after 13 years of amending byelaws, Chennai shows the way

Nagpur municipality falters over banning PoP idols

With Ganesh Chaturthi festival around the corner, civic body now proposes ban on immersion of idols in natural water bodies

Encroached green patch in Sarai Khwaja may be converted into biodiversity park

Faridabad municipality was planning to sell land teeming with diverse fauna to real estate developers

Jalandhar village opposes waste-to-energy plant

Project developer, Jindal Urban Infrastructure Limited, could not answer queries satisfactorily at public hearing

Maharashtra tax will hurt publishing

Printed books earlier exempted from octroi are now subject to local body tax

10 die in building collapse in Mumbai region

Second incident in a fortnight; land being marshy may be factor

Bareilly civic body to pay for unlawful dumping of city garbage

National Green Tribunal invokes 'polluter pays' principle while imposing penalty to restore dump site

In Srinagar's footsteps?

Unplanned urbanisation is killing lakes that have saved Raipur from floods for over 1,000 years

Rajkot clueless about restoring bus service

Failed experiment of providing public transport through private partners raises questions about such ventures

Wash and melt: Idol immersion in Bengal turns a green leaf

Manpower minimised, water used in the process recycled; environmentalists hail the model, but implementation under cloud

East Kolkata Wetlands: NGT warns officials for violating waste dumping norms

The National Green Tribunal directed scientific shifting of legacy waste accumulated in the wetlands for decades

Bengaluru's burning issue

The city finally wakes up to waste management, but bumbles into incineration plants

Bringing order to streets

Centre legalises street vending and gives the profession its due respect. But accommodating vendors is a challenge

Delhi's new public health concern—Japanese encephalitis

Did pigs bring it?

Wasted wealth

Organic composting is filthy business. Facilities flout norms, produce poor quality manure

No land for best option: composting

Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala, does not have a municipal waste-treatment facility. Its only plant to treat solid waste, located …

Nagpur's Star Bus Service gets very poor rating

Inquiry panel recommends looking for an alternative service provider, but ignores corruption charges

One river, two origins

Industrialists are trying to push the origin of the Nag river downstream to capture its upper stretch for real estate business

CSE points out lapses in building regulations in India

The condition and quality of Indian building stock is poor when it comes to seismic performance. In Delhi, almost 80 per cent of buildings …

Kolkata highrises to get rooftop solar panels

High Courts also ask power utilities to ensure 10 percent of energy supplies through renewable sources