Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 3, 2020)

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

India’s reservoirs now have 155% more water than last yr

Live storage in 123 reservoirs is at 66.372 billion cubic metres (BCM) or 39 per cent of total live storage capacity

Operation of brick kilns in UP: NGT pulls up chief secretary

The tribunal, in an earlier order, said brick kilns in the National Capital Region cannot operate until an assimilative carrying capacity …

Time for course correction

Congress likely to go all out to woo people in the new budget

India set to grow biofortified crop

Four states to cultivate iron-rich pearl millet by 2012

Mercury in air, water

Jharkhand

Most politicians and activists see the Forest Conservation Act as a hurdle towards empowering the tribal population. They want the act amended

Uttaranchal

The process of alienating people from natural resources has not stopped, even with the attainment of statehood

Chattisgarh

Fighting the drought preoccupies the new government. Charting a mining policy to explore the rich mineral deposits is next on the agenda

Tehri: is it curtains?

The beginning of submergence of Tehri also marked the drowning of anti-dam sentiments. Any strong protest was conspicuous by its absence. Does …

Sewage stink

Many townships in Greater Noida are not connected to the sewage system

पर्यावरण मुकदमों की डायरी: हाईवे के किनारे बढ़ते अतिक्रमण पर एनएचएआई ने दायर किया हलफनामा

पर्यावरण से संबंधित मामलों में सुनवाई के दौरान क्या कुछ हुआ, यहां पढ़ें-

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 17, 2020)

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

पर्यावरण मुकदमों की साप्ताहिक डायरी: स्वास्थ्य कर्मियों के कल्याण के लिए दिशा निर्देश जारी करें सरकार: सुप्रीम कोर्ट

यहां पढ़िए इस सप्ताह के पर्यावरण सम्बन्धी मामलों के विषय में अदालती आदेशों का सार

Excreta as resource: Looking at recovery, reuse of faecal sludge in UP

A critical link in faecal sludge and septage management value chain is reuse of by-products generated, which include treated water as well as …

पर्यावरण मुकदमों की डायरी: प. बंगाल में कोविड-19 से जुड़े कचरे को खुले मैदान में किया जा रहा है डंप

यहां पढ़िए पर्यावरण सम्बन्धी मामलों के विषय में अदालती आदेशों का सार

Rural women have resilience to cope with climate risks: study

Women use creative ways to manage food and nutrition security in their households in lean months, shows an ongoing study in Faizabad, Uttar …

Supreme Court upholds pollution levy on trucks entering Delhi

The apex court will give an order on Monday based on directions prepared by amicus curiae

Grassroots victory

FRA emboldens tribals in Dudhwa to demand control over grass

Will access to toilets guarantee women's security in rural India?

The Badaun rape incident shows how vulnerable women are to sexual violence when there are no toilets in homes

Corpses rot, flow down the Ganga in Uttarakhand

Chief minister seeks permission for mass funeral; doctors fear break out of epidemic

Energy pill for renewable sector

World Bank prepares off-grid scheme to revitalise growth

Reptilian recovery

Once threatened, the gharials get afresh lease of life at the Kukrail Reserve Forest near Lucknow

Scrap godown fire in Ghaziabad kills one

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