The Supreme Court of India has adjourned till August 2001 the hearing on a petition seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against the Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar, writer Arundhati

The Supreme Court has stayed a project of the Uttaranchal government to build

A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court for the protection of wetlands. M K Balakrishnan, an advocate, has filed the petition, which also includes a provision for paddy

How the Delhi government evaded the Supreme Court order on CNG to engineer a state of anarchy?

Authorities and the leather industry owners in Tamil Nadu dodge court orders, while a few individuals raise voices to save their ecosystems from tannery waste

a move to solve one problem, is creating another one for the Andhra Pradesh government. The Supreme Court had ordered the state governments to dispose off effluents without contaminating any

The de sealing drive of the Delhi government is yet to take off as a bureaucratic maze greets factory owners

There is much confusion among government authorities and industrialists regarding the definition of a polluting industry. Even those seeking de-sealing have no clue on what basis they should file the

• The water crisis in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, may soon be abated. The city will start getting water from the Narmada River via the Raska wier. Other areas that will benefit include Vadodara,