Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 14, 2023)

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

DTE Coverage: In Gujarat Elections 2022, ‘issues’ don’t seem to matter any more

Why the ruling BJP comes across confident despite complaints of unemployment, price rise

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 7, 2022)

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

From sea to shining sea: Cyclone Gulab, born in Bay of Bengal, to re-emerge in Arabian Sea

Cyclone Gulab, which made landfall on India’s east coast, will now cross into the Arabian Sea near Surat and then skirt Saurashtra before …

Odisha migrant workers return from Gujarat, Maharashtra amid fears of another lockdown

Trains from Gujarat and Maharashtra to Odisha are full, although rail officials can’t confirm whether all passengers are migrants

COVID-19: Migrant labourers are leaving Gujarat, again

The second COVID-19 wave has marred businesses, migrant workers face dearth of work

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 21, 2020)

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

Will agriculture help twice-returned Saurashtra migrants tide over COVID-19 crisis?

Several Saurashtra migrants who had returned to work in Surat in May-end said they have fallen back on land resources for agriculture 

COVID-19: Why Gujarat is a worry for Bihar

Workers claim not receiving salaries from employers, not given any food by state government

COVID-19: How did Gujarat become second worst-affected state?

Routine flow of visitors from Mumbai, Indore was overlooked, sources said 

Gujarat launches India’s first trading programme to combat particulate air pollution

Launched on World Environment Day, the programme is a market-based system where the government sets a cap on emissions and allows industries to …

Waste smart cities

A survey by the Centre for Science and Environment shows how Indian cities are turning over a new leaf in solid waste management

Report blames aquaculture activities for Olpad incident

Water had been gushing out from the ground since first week of June

Why floods despite dams

"India's health infrastructure was never something to be pround of"

The panic created when the plague rippled out from Surat and threatened other parts of the country exposed India's complete lack of resources for …

Polemics over a pest

A controversy rages over whether the Surat plague bacillus was a secret hardsell by a Kazakh chemical firm

Shared misery

The government has finalised a strategy to get industries to reduce their waste

Stalking plague

PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT — THE PLAGUE IN SURAT·Ghanshyam Shah· Sage Publications, New Delhi·Rs 395

Breathing room

Waste manager dumps it in river

Gujarat firm gets closure notice for stealthily disposing of untreated hazardous waste

Citizens' reports indict Gujarat government for Surat floods

The floods of August 2006 are among the worst Gujarat's Surat city

Gujarat gives go-ahead to asbestos company

Gujarat promotes asbestos

Mystery fever stalks Surat

Three persons have died in the past three days; help sought from National Institute of Virology to identify disease

Flood alert in Gujarat

Dam-induced floods feared in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Kheda districts

Why Hirakud dam failed to check flood

The river has strayed from its flood control route