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

Microcredit scheme for solar lighting system

Rural families pay less than what they spent on kerosene lamps for off-grid lighting

Draft a Bill to protect Ganga, PMO tells environment ministry

Inter-ministerial committee to be set up for drafting legislation

News Briefs

Mahan at all costs

How government bent all rules to ensure Mahan forest in Madhya Pradesh goes to Essar and Hindalco for mining coal

IN COURT

News Briefs

Constructing A Dream

Consolidation against commoners

After land consolidation was introduced, the landless poor and agricultural labourers, who depended on common resources, faced tremendous problems

Ignorance makes a maneater

Get positive

Every problem has a solution

Anatomy of a poison

How, and where, does arsenic contaminate groundwater? The theories differ

Evil design

The extent of arsenic contamination now includes several states in India

In absolute denial

The government refuses to acknowledge that arsenic menace has a spread

Double trouble in Bundelkhand

In defence of ostrich farming

Promoting ostrich and emu farming in India's drought-prone districts could be a boon to farmers

Demand unsupplied

Time to redress

The needs of the small farmer require attention: small tractors or animal power? Both?