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 …

When homemakers unite

Housewives in Kolkata move the court against the irresponsible and negligent functioning of factories in their area

Dengue - reality bites

The millions affected have many to curse -- the mosquitoes, officials and the scientific communityby Ritu Gupta

The meat you eat

A behind-the-scene look at how slaughterhouses in India dispose hazardous bio-waste by endangering the environment

Prepare emission standards for industries in NCR by June: Supreme Court asks CPCB

Use of cheap and dirty fuels like pet coke and furnace oil is rampant in NCR due to the lack of a benchmark on emissions

Supreme Court to examine drug pricing policy

Asks Centre about very high profit margins allowed to manufacturers and dealers under Drug Price Control Order for essential medicines

RED ALERT in nuclear India

India's pampered nuclear power programme is losing steam. Uranium stocks are almost over; people won't let the government dig new mines; all …

The battle over forests

Are the recent eviction drives misdirected? (Read full article)

Oil company seeks legal nod to barge into marine park

How can one conserve a wildlife sanctuary better? By flagrantly trespassing on one part of it. Then picking up the tab for planting trees on …

Too cut & dried

Does the style of conserving forests currently dominant in India require an overhaul? Yes, say state governments and affected people. ruksan …

BHOPAL: the bad dream continues

Bhopal is a metaphor for disaster, industrial and human. It has been the object of much speculation and typically endless litigation. A case …

From the blurbs

One step forward

English distress

Language>> Litigation • Japan

A tool to aid democracy lies rusting

UNDUE PRESSURE

Setback for e-workers

Gir forest activist murdered

He had filed a petition against illegal mining by MP

A better PIL

POLLUTION IN BANGALORE

ORE OF CONTENTION

MEXICO

GOVERNMENT CLARIFIES

PILS AGAINST GARBAGE

TRADE IN HUMAN HAIR