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Andhra in a fix over quota

Cancels local body polls as court says reservation can’t exceed 50%

Railways pulled up over scavengers

A draft bill allows employing manual scavengers if they are provided protective gears

Cotton farmers get back water

Gujarat court stops work by company encroaching water body

Cycles congest roads: traffic cops

Kolkata police justify ban on non-motorised transport in the city

Delhi to get Waterbodies Authority

Over half the 900 wetlands have been encroached upon

Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Chhattisgarh can now access contraceptives

High Court quashes decades-old practice of denying rights to Baigas and other tribes

He upheld human rights and dismissed PILs

Martyr and a court ruling

Wetlands in Howrah still ravaged by real estate

Courts act to protect floodplains

Centre dithers on banning encroachment in river zones

Solar street lights scam: Patna HC seeks explanation from state government

Petition demands CBI probe into purchase of substandard lights at inflated cost

Property is a right: SC

Analysis of judgement shows State retains supremacy

Wind farm threat to forests

Blasting causes animals and birds to abandon the area

New safety norms for toys

Meant to check use of toxic phthalates

Bhopal’s toxic waste raises stink

Bombay High Court stays transfer of Union Carbide waste to Maharashtra

‘Don’t plug this hole’

Residents protest housing projects on lake in Mumbai suburb  

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

Ban toxic imports: court

Supreme Court wants hazardous waste rules aligned with Basel Convention

Tigers buffered

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

Nagpur village moves court against Bhopal's toxic waste incineration

Say it would endanger people’s their lives and environment

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