High court restores BRT lane to buses
Segregated traffic movement to be in place till court pronounces final verdict on whether BRT corridor should be retained
Mobile radiation scare in Jaipur
Rajasthan says levels within permissible limit. Critics claim even ‘safe’ levels are harmful
Environment ministry wants to restore night traffic through Bandipur tiger reserve
Karnataka High Court had banned traffic in the area from 9 pm to 6 am following deaths of tigers and elephants in vehicular accidents
Ublic outcry greets uranium mining project in AP
"There is radiation everywhere on earth. Mining in Nalgonda will not increase it." This comment of S D Prasad, adviser to public sector …
Degree of commerce
Vedanta gets tracts of thorium-rich land along the Orissa coast for a university. Allegations fly
Commissioning of Kudankulam nuclear power plant challenged in court
Petition filed in Madras High Court says atomic regulator's decision violates Supreme Court directions on safety
Flood on hilltop
Unplanned development is leading to floods in Lonavala. This can stop if the municipality declares it a hill station
Where are rural courts?
The Gram Nyayalaya Act was passed in 2008 to make the judicial process participatory, inexpensive and accessible to rural India. But rural courts …
Cycle ban in Kolkata: activists petition high court
Police and transport department ignored months of protests by users of non-motorised transport
High court halts seizure of Ganesha idols by Nagpur civic agency
Municipal corporation rapped for delaying ban on plaster of Paris idols that pollute the city's water bodies
Tourism to be prohibited in Jarawa reserve
Cabinet approves regulation declaring five km reserved area inhabited by the aboriginal tribe as buffer zone
Endosulfan declared not guilty
Good news for the ever manipulative pesticide industry: the Dubey committee -- a panel of experts set up by the Registration Committee of the …
Corporate wastelands
Tamil Nadu seems set to gift community land to corporates under the name of wasteland regeneration
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 18, 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 (September 9, 2020)
Subterranean Leak
The CSE tests had found high levels of groundwater and soil contamination in and around the Union Carbide factory
Junk food sale in schools: FSSAI panel frames weak guidelines
'Draft guidelines submitted in Delhi High Court will not serve the purpose of saving children from junk food'
Supreme Court orders removal of illegal residential colony from Corbett
Colony land, meant to be a temporary habitation, had been affecting movement of animals in the forest
Contempt notice to Karnataka chief secretary in lakes protection case
Top state bureaucrat failed to set up lake protection committees to check encroachment, pollution and destruction of lakes in the state
Rapid transit for BRT corridors
Delhi High Court dismisses plea to scrap bus rapid transit corridors; state plans 14 more
Seizure of LG Polymers: Was it a good or bad decision
While some aspects of the Andhra Pradesh High Court were well thought of, others could have been given more consideration
Delhi University's gene mystery
Department of Science and Technology has no idea where GM lines in a high-profile case came from and who gave permission for research
Granite mining scam: Tamil Nadu police raid Union fertiliser minister’s son’s company
He along with others grabbed the land of people belonging to backward caste and used it to store mined granite
Udaipur hotels face demolition
Rajasthan High Court orders action against 41 hotels encroaching on lakes and for violating court order
Waiting for a miracle
Citizens approaching the courts for protecting lakes in cities is all very well. But in the end, it is a choice between using land for water or …