Colombian refugees demand compensation for destroyed coca crops

UN climate talks: G77 and China stage walk-out over Loss and Damage

Developed countries want the matter be discussed only after 2015

POSCO faces fresh litigation, protest

Uncertainty looms over its $12 billion steel plant project in Odisha

When battered people took on the pesticide industry

Letters

Dow Chemical to help Bhopal gas tragedy victims

Letters

IN COURT

US Case - In Court

Nearly 80 mln displaced globally by 2019-end, half of them children: UNHCR

Fewer displaced people have been able to return to their homes in 2019

In Court

Clinical trials: compensation may be given only if injury directly relates to trials

Health authority says final decision on the matter may take time

Letters

South Asia

News Briefs

News 360° - Briefs

From 1999 super cyclone to Cyclone Biparjoy: What more needs to be done to make communities disaster resilient

National governments, including India, need to go beyond minimalistic compensations

POSCO, a better tomorrow?

Sayantan Bera captures the mood at Jagatsinghpur, Odisha (Photos from June 16 and 17)

Victims question Centre on delaying Plachimada Bill

Environment ministry says compensation claims from Coca-Cola diluted by time limit

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 19, 2024)

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

Managing waste - the Chandigarh way

Le Corbusier's city is getting a face-lift. A unique programme of the Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh (MCC), is ridding the city of the most …

Red tape and corruption delay compensation

DECEMBER 2-3 marks the eighth anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak - the world's worst industrial disaster. More than 4,000 lives were lost and 6.…

Needs more teeth, say critics

The widely-criticised draft policy on rehabilitation and resettlement has a major loophole -- it does not provide for any legislative backing

Damned forever

Participants at the first international conference of dam-affected people in Brazil vow to intensify their fight against large dams

Compensation be damned

As the Laos government basks in the glory of building a "model" dam, thousands of villagers are unlikely to be compensated