Adopt manual scavengers act, human rights commission tells states

Sand mining lobby uses tricks to evade MoEF scrutiny

Ministry panel visiting Greater Noida finds even leased mining areas do not have any environment clearance

Uttar Pradesh engages Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve health, agriculture and financial services to the poor

Health activists wary

UP farmers continue protest over land acquisition by Reliance

Ghaziabad battles noxious fumes from burnt batteries

ICDS gets packaged food for the malnourished

Forest rights and wrongs in Sonbhadra

Forcible eviction of tribals in Sonbhadra exposes forest rights faultlines

Centre fund for rural development mismanaged

World population touches 7 billion

Ten billionth baby likely by end of the century if population growth continues at current rate

INDIA

Tilapia fish may have killed gharials in Chambal

Tribunal makes Noida factory comply with green regulations

Chrome plating unit in Noida is the second factory in the industrial area that has been allowed to resume operations after complying with …

TERI recommends closure of some Coca-Cola plants

IAS officer was punished for taking on SP leaders involved in sand mining

Greater Noida village refutes Uttar Pradesh government's claim that Durga Shakti Nagpal's actions created communal tension

World Bank to buy carbon credits to aid building material industry

Hindon river Gasping for breath

Brief

National Green Tribunal firm on not allowing new polluting industries in Ghaziabad

UP Pollution Control Board fails to furnish satisfactory report to tribunal

Land bill gets diluted on way to Parliament

Bill provisions now favour government and industry, not farmers, say activists

Taungyas get legal recognition

Land titles distributed to 651 families in six Uttar Pradesh villages

Polio spreads in Indian states

Political parties use rural health mission scam stick to beat Mayawati government

Bahujan Samaj Party leader defiant blames UPA for the mess

SC bans endosulfan, for now

Committee to submit report on the pesticide's toxicity in eight weeks

Polluters under MoEF scanner

Ministry bans setting up of industries in eight highly polluted industrial clusters

Gutkha sympathiser

Enforcement agencies had a busy year. They were tough at times, lenient at others