Kolkata highrises to get rooftop solar panels
High Courts also ask power utilities to ensure 10 percent of energy supplies through renewable sources
Fall of a premier institute
Amid funds siphoning allegations, future of National Institute of Pharma Education seems bleak
‘Lanco public hearing rigged’
Farmers accuse power company of registering bogus speakers, question timing of public hearing with sowing season
Ensure piped water supply to residents near Union Carbide plant: monitoring committee to Bhopal municipality
Non-profits present high court committee with documents on extent of water and soil contamination
CRPF for garbage trucks?
Kerala High Court suggests CRPF protection for garbage trucks dumping Thiruvanthapuram's waste in village
Village at POSCO site seeks community forest rights
Reiterates demand against diversion of forestland for industry, under amended Forest Rights Act rules
Publishing biggies target Delhi University photocopy shop
Students demand right to access study material after Cambridge and Oxford university press move move court against neighbourhood photocopy shop …
Supreme Court order triggers NREGS wage debate
How much should workers under rural employment scheme be paid if minimum wage fixed by a state is more than that of the Centre?
Notice to Mundra for flouting laws
Environment ministry asks to reply within 15 days why the clearance should not be revoked
Idol immersions after Durga Puja leave rivers polluted yet again
Central Pollution Control Board guidelines and court directions are yet to achieve the desired result of keeping rivers and lakes free of …
Naga women approach Supreme Court for reservation of seats in local bodies
State cites representations from people's organisations that say implementation of 33 per cent quota in municipal and town councils against Naga …
Goa's iron ore miners undergo pollution board check
Consent to operate will be withdrawn if mines found extracting excess ore, say officials
Jairam Ramesh withdraws guidelines violating FRA
Fresh guidelines for creating Critical wildlife Habitat to be prepared in consultation with Tribal Affairs ministry
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”
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
Contest for pesticide
Demand for state control as Pesticides Management Bill is set to be tabled in Parliament
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 …
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.…