Union Cabinet approves disposing of Bhopal waste in Germany

Actual disposal of waste may take up to a year

Cabinet gives nod to new telecom policy

The policy proposes to delink spectrum from license

BPL's dividing line

Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line

Fine the rulers

Promises and lies

Supreme Court stays government's sham deal of promising land to tribals

India's sawmill policy filled with loopholes

India's sawmill regulation

Problems continue for Bangalore-Mysore expressway

SC subjects Forest Advisory Committee's role to judicial scrutiny

Ban on grazing hits Raikas community hard

Alang glutted by ships, workers at risk

Naini Lake polluted by sewage and construction waste

In Court

In Court

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 30, 2020)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 26, 2020)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 7, 2020)

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

Who's right for the forest anyway?

Reflections on Supreme Court order to evict ‘illegitimate’ tribals from the forests

Vizhinjam port: Supreme Court rejects Kerala’s plea to stay green tribunal verdict

Apex court says it would examine all the aspects, economic, environmental and defence, in detail without staying any order issued by the tribunal

Supreme Court questions Tata on Singur land acquired for Nano plant

Court directs Tata Motors to make clear its stand on its rights over the land after it chose to shift plant site to Gujarat

Monsanto wins against Indiana farmer

US Supreme Court says that planting and harvesting Monsanto’s patented seeds amounts to making additional copies of the company's patented …

EPCA has recommended ban on diesel vehicles in Delhi: environment minister tells Parliament

Benefits of CNG transition are not visible due to growth in diesel vehicles, says recent report by Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) …

Rapid transit for BRT corridors

Delhi High Court dismisses plea to scrap bus rapid transit corridors; state plans 14 more

Prometheus bound

The denial of a patent on a medical test that correlates drug dosages with treatment could mean the end of human gene patents

Harmful sterilisation in West Bengal

A banned female sterilisation method is in use in the rural areas of West Bengal, Karnataka, Punjab and Gujarat. So concludes a study conducted …

Legal landmine

Government support to Vedanta's alumina project in Orissa creates more uproar; company pays token fine