Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 24, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Nearly 600 farmer suicides in 8 months: Is Marathwada facing agri-distress
Activists blame government policies for the farmers’ situation, rather than extreme weather events
Why Maharashtra, Kerala are still adding 2 of 3 new COVID-19 cases in the country
These two states have become the bellwether for what is to come with cases typically rising here before other regions
Cyclone Tauktae can be among the ‘strongest’ on India’s west coast in 2 decades
Two of south Asia’s megapolises, Mumbai and Karachi lie in the path of Cyclone Tauktae
Planting trees to protect tiger habitat in Maharashtra
A safe forest corridor was critical for the facilitation of tiger dispersal between Kanha and Pench Tiger Reserves, the organisation said
Panic among migrant workers as fresh COVID-19 lockdown starts in Mumbai
Migrants in Mumbai may be in greater trouble in 2021’s lockdown compared to last year
As it gets colder and drier, India may see more H1N1 cases
When dipping temperatures and low rainfall are bad omens for the spread of the influenza, the country received 50 per cent less rainfall this …
Maharashtra govt's apathy derails Matheran’s clean and green prospects
The hill station struggles to keep plastic, motor vehicles and ropeway out of its confines
A first-of-a-kind campaign in Pune creates awareness about sanitary waste segregation
The Red Dot Campaign by SWaCH cooperative is sensitising people about the importance of proper handling and disposal of sanitary waste
Drought hinders efforts to make Maharashtra open defecation-free
The drought scenario in Maharashtra forces us to think what will happen to the ambitious plan of making the state 100 per cent Open Defecation-free
Slums and the story of India's housing crisis
The rate at which informal housing is being destroyed probably far exceeds the rate at which formal housing is being constructed
Marathwada in the grip of drought-like situation
With only 58 per cent rainfall this season, Maharashtra is likely to face one of the worst agrarian crises ever
Coronary stents sold to patients at exorbitant rates, reveals probe
The investigation, carried out by Maharashtra FDA, shows nexus among importers, distributors, hospitals and doctors
Genocide of farmers
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A high-tech power station foreign companies are building in Maharashtra is being touted as the "perfect solution" to its anticipated electricity …
Chaotic response to calamity
The killer quake struck unexpectedli in the still of the night. Entire villages were flattened and thousands perished. Though rescue and relief …
It's a damp squib
Lack of respect for facts and a strong ideology guided by Judaic-Christian thought dominate the report
A monumental failure
The report on the Sardar Sarovar does not address crucial issues like water-saving technologies, lowering the dam height and reducing the size of …
Watering down a success story
Water User Associations in Maharashtra face unforeseen hurdles despite being successful. Why is the government stalling them?
'We have to create a culture of energy efficiency'
VILAS BABURAO MUTTEMWAR, minister of state (independent charge) for non-conventional energy sources, tells KUSHAL P S YADAV
Hope in a heap
Farmers benefit as a factory in Maharashtra fuels its turbines with different types of agrowaste
Bid to denotify Nag river's upper reaches stalled
State environment ministry rejects proposal of state pollution control board that would have paved way for real estate development
Maharashtra's white paper on irrigation projects fails to answer key questions
Activists, citizens groups enraged by silence on hyped water availability estimates, bad construction and corruption
No traders, onion farmers in Maharashtra to directly sell produce in markets
After years of losses, farmers angry at government interventions to drop prices after the allium saw 20% hike compared with last year
Here is the science behind unseasonal rains and hailstorms that flattened crops in India
Global warming, weak western disturbances and strong subtropical jet stream are to be blamed, say experts