True measure of growth

Shrimp does not pay

Not in Delhi's backyard

Middle class environmentalism isn't the way ahead

Impatient to sterilise

In a hurry to bring down fertility rate, health officials are blatantly flouting government’s guidelines

He upheld human rights and dismissed PILs

The interminable wait for justice

Three years after a public interest litigation case was filed in the Supreme Court to stop a local factory polluting its drinking water, the …

Generating controversy

Environment ministry favours small manufacturers, ignores experts' advice on air emission norms for off-road diesel engines

Tigers buffered

Supreme Court order to notify buffer zones around reserves raises both hope and fear

Melghat Malaise

This first of three Down To Earth analyses of tiger reserves finds Melghat in Maharashtra in a legal mess

Are pills doctored?

A Punjab resident holds inferior quality drugs responsible for his son's serious illness

On a strong wicket

Perumatty panchayat's case is statutorily sound

Cola major gets a taste of panchayat power

A multi-billion-dollar transnational corporation has had to blink first in an eyeball-to-eyeball dispute with an obscure panchayat of Kerala. On …

Matter of interpretation

15 hectares of utter confusion

Beating the drought

How some villages stayed afloat even as neighbouring lands parched

Valley of despair

Unrestrained chromite mining takes Sukinda valley to the edge of an abyss

Is it the end?

For two historical water bodies in Hyderabad

Waiting for a miracle

Citizens approaching the courts for protecting lakes in cities is all very well. But in the end, it is a choice between using land for water or …

Real estate on water

Lakes were critical for Indian cities. They prevented floods and recharged groundwater. Today, these holes in the ground are either lucrative …

When homemakers unite

Housewives in Kolkata move the court against the irresponsible and negligent functioning of factories in their area

The meat you eat

A behind-the-scene look at how slaughterhouses in India dispose hazardous bio-waste by endangering the environment

No plutonium to go on

But government says full steam ahead

Scraping the barrel

No stock, nuclear energy programme in crisis

RED ALERT in nuclear India

India's pampered nuclear power programme is losing steam. Uranium stocks are almost over; people won't let the government dig new mines; all …

The battle over forests

Are the recent eviction drives misdirected? (Read full article)

Into the void

Two steps faltering, plan takes third step