Simply Put: Joshimath Rehabilitation

Namibia to pay $8,297 to relatives of people killed by wild animals

However, families whose kin have been killed by crocodiles and hippos while swimming and bathing in rivers won’t get any compensation

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 16, 2022)

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

Maharashtra dumps SEZ for real estate

Its new industrial policy appears to benefit industrial houses

Villages protest forest acquisition

No compensation from steel major Jindal, allege Odisha people

Chhattisgarh's plan for a new capital puts farmers in a fix

Farmers gather in Delhi to demand compensation for crop loss

Instead of giving aid to farmers, government is trying to snatch their land through land bill, say farmers

India announces new standards to compensate victims of clinical trials

Activists have earlier raised concerns that volunteers who end up with injuries after trials are not compensated properly

Trouble in Dewas

Deforestation, corruption or politics? The killing of four tribals in Madhya Pradesh's Dewas district leaves many questions unanswered

Lack of governance agenda

The disconnect between Left’s politics at the Centre and the states is clear—and a problem  

A bridge divides them

Highway authority runs into 30,000 people facing displacement

Are pills doctored?

A Punjab resident holds inferior quality drugs responsible for his son's serious illness

In Short

Compensate former dock workers, UK court tells government

A compromised consensus

Two new provisions in land acquisition bill promise to protect farmers. Are they foolproof?

Ban lifted on fishing in Sutlej

Discharge of effluents into the river had caused large-scale fish deaths, leading to the curbs

Simply Put: Wild humans

Study highlights dismal condition of women farmers

Women farmers, whose contribution to agriculture is equal or sometimes even more than their husbands, are often ignored

Trial and error

Recent notifications offer no security to clinical trial participants

In Court

In Short

Ministers fail to reach consensus on R&R policy

Countdown to copenhagen

Oil’s crude touch in Gujarat

ONGC’s oilfields are ruining farms in Gujarat

Demand for endosulfan tribunal

Kerala High Court admits writ petition demanding tribunal and compensation for victims