Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 5, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Shudder islands

Harsh environment, government apathy are literally driving Sundarbans inhabitants mad

Panel submits draft of West Bengal land use policy

Recommends ban on government land acquisition for industrial use

System error

The death of India's cancer control programme and the rise of cancers

Classified ?

The data is rudimentary. The analysis is poor. And is kept secret

New tentacles

Stiff US law ruffles Indian marine food sector

As for the future

Is there hope?

Andhra pradesh

TAC betrays tribals at some tribal leaders' instance

Koel-Karo: Jharkhand

Leaders renege, but tribal collectivism holds forth

Singhbhum: Jharkhand

Jungle andolan amidst state repression

Question on employment guarantee scheme's success

West Bengal proposes alternative site for Nandigram chemical hub

Workers starving due to closure of tea estates in North Bengal

Tourism plans for Andamans go on, tsunami notwithstanding

Stark difference: MGNREGS demand in West Bengal plummets on paper, but villagers say desperate for work

Work demand dropped to 2.4 million in 2022-23 from 13.2 million 2020-21

Martyr and a court ruling

Wetlands in Howrah still ravaged by real estate

Shale gas: hype and reality

As the world rushes for the gas, scientists gather evidence of its environmental risks

The nectar poison we drink

Sunderbans polluted

Testimonies from Nandigram

Kolkata protests blanket ban on cycling

Police extends ban to 174 roads, extracts fines from riders illegally

Kolkata reconnects with its riverfront

Adopt manual scavengers act, human rights commission tells states

Update

Law of no returns