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

Two incidents that made me ask: Whither forestry extension?

Extension programmes in forest institutions are meant to benefit stakeholders, mainly farmers, villagers and rural communities

Blazing India: The sun beats down mercilessly on Vidarbha

With no rains yet and the heat wave still on, the situation in Maharashtra’s easternmost region has everybody worried

Scientists find a way to make graphene from discarded dry cell batteries

Graphene can be used to make solar cells, light-emitting diodes, touch panels and smart windows

Midday meal may be outsourced

Schools in Maharashtra do not want responsibility, say the scheme hampers teaching

Half of Yavatmal’s soil not meant for cotton: study

District known for farmers' suicides has shallow soil depth which has very little capacity to retain water; report recommends switch to …

Soy seed crunch hits farmers in Maharashtra

Farmers sceptical of agricultural department’s strategy of using previous year’s crop as seed to meet this year’s kharif demand

Nothing to bank on

The government’s much-hyped Direct Benefit Transfer programme has hit a roadblock. Banks have failed to meet the huge demand for opening …

Nagpur to fully privatise water supply from November 15

Consumer organisations demand public hearing

Nagpur municipality proposes action against private water supplier

Orange City Water Limited fails to supply 24X7 clean water; people demand cancellation of contract

Power shoe

Apart from fitness there is another good reason one should walk: charging mobile phone. Mandar Tulankar, an engineering student in Nagpur, has …

Patrolling on cycle

GI tag for Nagpur orange to benefit both farmers and consumers

The move will give a boost to the export of the variety; help growers get a premium price for the fruit

Colouring cotton

Dye farming

Cheap option to treat effluent

INDIA

Elimination kit

For the American bollworm, a common cotton pest

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

INDIA

High Court allows sale of PoP Ganesh idols in Nagpur

They are to be immersed only in artificial tanks

High-yield Heera

Weeds show potential

A retired railway officer knows how to save water and energy

R K Palhan, former general manager, Central Railways, has two innovations to his credit. One has already been implemented in most railway …

'We have to create a culture of energy efficiency'

VILAS BABURAO MUTTEMWAR, minister of state (independent charge) for non-conventional energy sources, tells KUSHAL P S YADAV

Sweet success