Viva Espana: Spain’s decision to allow menstrual leave should inspire judgement on SC PIL next week, says activist

In India as well as sub-Saharan Africa, the taboo surrounding menstruation often causes girls to drop out of schools and education despite it …

Naini lake is depleting, but can we undo the wrongs?

Experts believe that obstruction in the subsurface recharge and increased abstraction of water to quench Nainital’s thirst are making the …

Choked on salt

Illegal salt making threatens Sambhar Lake’s ecology

DRDO unit not fit to handle union carbide waste : MPCB

Incinerator out of order since two years

Centre to identify a laboratory to analyse toxic waste from Union Carbide factory

Order follows Maharashtra Pollution Control Board statement that it cannot predict the impact of burning the toxic waste

Regulate stent prices to prevent exploitation of patients: health campaigners

While the government fixes the prices of stents, it must also take urgent action to investigate corrupt practices and overcharging

High court notice to Haryana on new criteria for panchayat elections

The court had earlier stayed the decision to make academic qualifications more stringent

Ban toxic imports: court

Supreme Court wants hazardous waste rules aligned with Basel Convention

Drug firms, retailers on warpath

Pharma companies say chemists refusing to store essential drugs; retailers deny the charge

Tigers buffered

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

Curse of the horn

Soaring prices of rhino horns have led to a new spurt of poaching in the Kaziranga National Park, Assam. Once heralded as a conservation success …

Gujarat high court orders fencing of water bodies in Thatlej area

In the absence of proper protection laws, the city’s lakes are becoming vulnerable to encroachments and building activity, say activists

Nagpur village moves court against Bhopal's toxic waste incineration

Say it would endanger people’s their lives and environment

Saranda for sale?

First by diluting it and then by delaying it, the Jharkhand government ensures slow death of a plan meant to safeguard Saranda and its wildlife …

Plan that isn’t

NCR Planning Board dilutes environmental safeguards to promote towns, industries

POSCO faces fresh litigation, protest

Uncertainty looms over its $12 billion steel plant project in Odisha

Addicted to groundwater

High Court order fails to wean Gurgaon off illegal wells

POSCO villages resist land acquisition by Odisha government

Despite protests administration demolishes 37 betel gardens on the forestland. Land acquistion put on hold till June 17

Ban likely on junk food in schools

Food safety authority asks states to consider prohibition

Prepare emission standards for industries in NCR by June: Supreme Court asks CPCB

Use of cheap and dirty fuels like pet coke and furnace oil is rampant in NCR due to the lack of a benchmark on emissions

Bombay high court gives six weeks' time to Lavasa

Asks to submit documents to environment ministry by March 10

POSCO, a better tomorrow?

Sayantan Bera captures the mood at Jagatsinghpur, Odisha (Photos from June 16 and 17)