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
EU biofuel targets fuelling inflation: study
Land meant for food crops being used to grow biofuel crops; may push up food prices by 36 per cent by 2020
Legal protection for wildlife corridors, soon: Jayanthi Natarajan
Several elephant habitats and forest corridors used by wildlife fall outside sanctuaries and parks
Voyager 1 set to cross new frontier
NASA says spacecraft floating in heliosheath, and on the verge of crossing over to the interstellar space
Forest title claims of over 50% tribals, forest dwellers rejected: report
Where titles have been granted, average size of land holdings much smaller than what the Forest Rights Act provides for, says status report on …
Diesel exhaust linked to lung cancer
WHO agency says there is compelling evidence to classify diesel fumes as deadly carcinogen along with tobacco, asbestos
Maharashtra bans 15 seed companies permanently
25,000 farmers await compensation from firms that supplied soy seeds with very low germination rate
Real estate: Market happy, but civil society finds it lacking
External commercial borrowings in low-income housing projects will become unaffordable, they say
Health goals of 11th Five-Year Plan unmet. 12th Plan hopes to achieve them
Planning Commission's working group recommends repeating last Plan targets in the 12th Plan
Supreme Court not inclined to hear plea for stay on nuclear plants
Petitioners seek time to produce documents showing they have exhausted all other avenues of grievance redressal
Tribal governance, Salwa Judum and Maoists
Maoist insurgents killed Mahendra Karma, founder of the anti-Maoist Salwa Judum campaign, in Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur district on Saturday. …
Activists demand compulsory licence for another life-saving cancer drug
Appellate board's order upholding Natco's CL for sorafenib tosylate may pave way for manufacture of generic version of other patented drugs
Centre reverses stand on governor's powers under Fifth Schedule
Assistant solicitor general's affidavit says the constitutional head of state has no discretionary powers over functioning of Tribes Advisory …
Forestland diversion for roads, railway lines made easy
MoEF waives requirement of obtaining gram sabha certificates for linear projects. Will it dilute forest rights of people?
SC orders immediate release of Cauvery water to save Tamil Nadu’s standing crops
State claims it has lost a third of its standing crops and that remaining crops on 600,000 ha need to be irrigated at once
Pre-dawn police crackdown on village at POSCO site
Move marks restart of land acquisition for steel plant; police say they were only protecting farmers who wanted to give land
Cauvery row: SC directs Karnataka to release 283 cumec water to Tamil Nadu
Asks Cauvery Monitoring Committee headed-by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to meet within two days and decide water sharing between the two states
Only 22 housing projects for poor completed under JNNURM, says CAG
Comptroller and Auditor General raps urban development and housing ministries for failing to bring about urban governance reforms
Where SAIL's profits come from
State-owned steel giant’s profits are increasingly from raw material subsidies, not real economic value addition
Indian laws adequate for ensuring biosafety, says MoEF special secretary
But they do not provide for liability and redress if damage occurs due t release of GMOs by biotech giants, point out civil society groups
NHRC raps Centre, Madhya Pradesh for insensitivity towards dam oustees
People affected by Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar dams had staged jal satyagraha to demand rehabilitation rights
Kundankulam: police fire teargas to chase away protesters
The commissioning of the two 1,000 MW units of the plant has been delayed since December last year due to protests
Centre favours manufacture of endosulfan
Says disposal will cost Rs 210 crore while using existing raw material stock to manufacture the pesticide will increase crop production
India overexploiting fish resources: Greenpeace
Report released on World Oceans Day, says 15 million people affected; will hit export growth