Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 13, 2019)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 6, 2019)
Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (July 29-Aug 2)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal through the week
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 1, 2019)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 4, 2019)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 21, 2019)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment hearings of April 11, 2019
Supreme Court pulls up Centre for not using Rs 90,000 crore meant for environment
The court also suspects misuse of funds as a recent affidavit showed that the money was being used for construction of roads, renovation of bus …
Why is Centre making Aadhaar compulsory for poor TB patients despite Supreme Court order?
In the past, the Apex Court had asked the Centre to not make Aadhar compulsory for public welfare schemes
Zero Intellectuals
The nation that invented the zero is now confounded by one zero. EPCA meets all agencies in its search for alternatives. But instead of ultra …
The truth behind the Muthanga incident
The People's Judicial Enquiry Commission probe into the Muthanga incident in Kerala sheds new light on this burning issue, which is causing …
What's with this Kolaveri about John Doe injunctions?
In jurisdictions where the law of copyright is much more matured as compared to India, the injunctions are issued very judiciously, and by …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 22, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 26, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 3, 2019)
SC vacates Madras HC order staying issue of pattas to forest dwellers
The Madras High Court had passed an interim order in April 2008 staying the issue of pattas in Tamil Nadu without its permission
Chhattisgarh sticks to its stand that governors have no discretionary powers in tribal matters
State response to Supreme Court ignores more recent apex court judgements and former attorney general's opinion on powers of governors under the …
Mine games
Haryana's politics-mining nexus plays havoc with the environment (Read full article)
Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 17-21, 2020)
Andhra mining agency told to ‘go back’ by Nimmalapadu tribals at public hearing
First hearing since 1997 Supreme Court judgment, Kept out of mining lease decisions at least five times despite legal win, say villagers
EIA notification 2020 delayed till September 7
A petition had been filed in court, asking the notification be translated in all 22 regional languages of the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution
Delhi hospitals freed of poor
Delhi High Court exempts four private hospitals from treating the poor for free. Experts fear other hospitals will follow
Will you be doomed if GM mustard is not approved now, apex court asks Centre
The SC, on the second day of hearing, sought details on the Union government’s claim of GM mustard being a herbicide-tolerant crop
The Supreme Court is sending wrong signals on post facto environmental clearances
Recently, the apex court has overlooked its own judgments and the underlying logic behind why there is a mechanism for environmental …
Nimmalapadu’s protracted struggle: Despite legal win, 3 Andhra tribal villages fight to save land from mining
Villagers near Andhra-Odisha border are fighting the state for calcite reserves two decades after securing Supreme Court victory