Saranda for sale?
First by diluting it and then by delaying it, the Jharkhand government ensures slow death of a plan meant to safeguard Saranda and its wildlife …
Will Delhi High Court help 7-year-old avail expensive therapy for rare genetic disease?
Child’s lawyer says it’s a test case—common citizens have right to good healthcare and life as much as people in high office
High court stays land acquisition for Kovvada nuclear power plant
Petitioner alleges violation of norms, demands land acquisition should be permitted only after environmental clearances are secured
Supreme Court presses for better health facilities for Bhopal gas victims
Asks Centre and Madhya Pradesh government to implement standard treatment protocols, and make public studies on the disaster-affected people
MoEF clears mining in 36 new sand reaches in Andhra
Move effectively overrules high court stay; approved sand reaches fall in districts acutely affected by overexploitation of river sand
Supreme Court slams Centre over apathy to Bhopal waste
Government says delay is because disposal of the waste is “a highly emotional and politicised matter”
Jairam Ramesh withdraws guidelines violating FRA
Fresh guidelines for creating Critical wildlife Habitat to be prepared in consultation with Tribal Affairs ministry
Plan that isn’t
NCR Planning Board dilutes environmental safeguards to promote towns, industries
POSCO faces fresh litigation, protest
Uncertainty looms over its $12 billion steel plant project in Odisha
Food industry challenges validity of panel for junk food sale in schools
Health activists say court petition an attempt to scuttle process of ensuring healthy food in schools
1.2 million children in Karnataka are malnourished, state tells high court
Civil rights groups blame packaged food supplied to anganwadis
Gutkha sympathiser
Enforcement agencies had a busy year. They were tough at times, lenient at others
Addicted to groundwater
High Court order fails to wean Gurgaon off illegal wells
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Suzlon, Lavasa raised loans from the company named in bribery scam
Scam led to arrest of several top officials of public sector banks
Red Bull untamed
Caffeine content in energy drinks go unchecked
Contest for pesticide
Demand for state control as Pesticides Management Bill is set to be tabled in Parliament
NGT order clears way for Nirma cement plant at cost of wetland
Tribunal has set aside revocation of environmental clearance to Nirma Limited’s proposed cement plant
Desperate to relocate
Chetty communities living in the core area of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve have been demanding that they be shifted out of the forest for three decades.…
Supreme Court orders incineration of Bhopal's toxic waste at non-functional treatment facility in Dhar district
Madhya Pradesh government and activists fighting for Bhopal gas victims to file review petition
POSCO villages resist land acquisition by Odisha government
Despite protests administration demolishes 37 betel gardens on the forestland. Land acquistion put on hold till June 17
Lavasa above law
Lavasa continues to bypass norms. But the environment ministry may give clearance to the the maiden planned hill city in India, Sakshi C Dasgupta …
Polavaram fraud
The Polavaram dam on the Godavari could displace 400,000 people and submerge nearly 4,000 hectares of forestland. Most of the people threatened …
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