ORDERS NOT IMPLEMENTED

Innovative registration

INDIA

Passing the buck

The industry puts the onus of a clean environment on government agencies

SAVING GANGA

NOISY MACHINES

IN COURT

No new laws

Holistic approach

Dirty rivers

In denial

Mystery fever kills hundreds; government clueless

Farm reform

Open markets, land on lease

Strengthen the right

Letters

Bickering to conserve

A continual tug of war between various agencies helped the Forest Conservation Act to evolve to its present form.

Biogas can solve nation's energy problems

Both government and voluntary agencies are helping to spread biogas technology, which can provide clean fuel and enriched manure as well as …

Healthy move, say environmentalists,hegemony, complain states

The Rajasthan and Haryana governments feel threatened by the Centre's move to stop industrial, mining and quarrying activity in the Aravalli …

Opinions

DTE sought the comments of legal luminaries and journalists on some issues that emerged out of this analysis. The individuals whose opinions …

The verdict

What the judiciary needs to do is to put the heat on the regulatory and executive agencies of the country and improve the country's environmental …

Span Resorts: motel mayhem

Was the motel owned by a former environment minister's relatives really responsible for destroying the pristine banks of the Beas? The apex …

Delhi ridge: a lifeline in danger

Encroachments - by the poor and the rich alike - are proving to be the ridge's bane. The malady is monumental, and the court's healing touch has …

Patancheru: water woes

While the apex court has brought to Patancheru's effluent-riddled land some relief in the forms of compensation and drinking water, it has not …

When Will India Be Able To Control Pollution?

Not till the middle of the 21st century. So be prepared to leave your children behind in a living hell. Unless you are prepared to browbeat your …

Shortchanged

What ails the economies of the eight northeastern states? The warped fiscal policies of the Union government

The power game

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have become increasingly influential in the past 50 years. Awareness of human rights and social and …