26 killed, 100 injured in Raebareli NTPC plant blast

NTPC, which is a public sector undertaking of the government, has ordered a detailed probe in the incident

Skeletal existence

The number of fluorosis cases in Sonbhadra district, Uttar Pradesh, is overwhelming. Despite having full knowledge of the causes, the state …

Save our democracy

The death of an activist in Gujarat following his arrest and the recent arrest of social workers in Uttar Pradesh gives rise to a number of questions

The torrid charm of being a UP politician

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has resigned. She's ended, as a newspaper put it, her "third honeymoon" with the Bharatiya Janata Party, a …

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

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

Avartansheel Kheti changing lives with periodic farming

The purely organic method of growing food involves dividing the land into zones for cereal crops, vegetables, fruiting trees and animal husbandry

Not testing enough: Half of UP’s COVID-19 cases in 12 districts

These 12 districts also accounted for about 50% of total tests in the state

A dolphin paradise, in the middle of chaos

Barely 45 minutes away from Varanasi, is a patch of the Ganga that is dolphin heaven

World Toilet Day: We built latrines for villagers in Sitapur; ‘Aaram Mil Gaya’, they said

Creating access to toilets can help achieve much more than Clean India

Wild cats rescued from poachers in Uttar Pradesh could be rare caracals

Out of the six animals rescued, five of them resembled caracals

Easy drugs

Chronicling resistance

Doctors get warning

Uttar Pradesh serves notice to 150 negligent surgeons

Narora fire

Beating the heat

Hills on fire

Fires ravage forests in many parts of northern India

Bumper crop

Polio poser

Increased incidence of disease in UP raises questions about effectiveness of prevention plan

Grand review

Agro-tech to be evaluated

Dressed down

First river link deal

Ken-Betwa link MoU signed

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 25, 2024)

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 (November 7, 2023)

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 (December 2, 2022)

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

UP Assembly Elections 2022: Cane prices, arrears will have played big role in first phase voting

The farmers of western UP have been affected by the farmers’ protest and will have voted on the lines of their issues