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Mass Deforestation, Protests, Detentions: Supreme Court halts Telangana’s reckless tree felling at Kancha Gachibowli, questions permissions

Public anger mounts as Telangana authorities bulldoze through Kancha Gachibowli’s tree cover, allegedly violating environmental norms and suppressing protests with detentions and police crackdowns; scrutiny by HC and SC to continue

Draft EIA: K’taka HC extends date for filing objections, restrains Centre from releasing final notification

The court questioned the Centre on why the notification was not published in regional languages

Env group asks Guj gov’t about land acquisition for bullet train project 

The Vadodara based group has been following the project developments, and deems it necessary to increase public spending rather than investing in such projects

Unmindful mining will bring permanent pandemic

A closer look at the allocation of the country’s natural resources to crony corporates during the Covid-19 lockdown

Climate activism website, Fridays for Future India, restored!

The website had been allegedly blocked by the GOI and been served a notice by the Delhi Cyber Crime Unit which cited anti-terror law UAPA

Another explosion at Baghjan oil well injures three foreign experts

The explosion reportedly took place while the Baghjan oil well capping operations were underway

Floods wreak havoc on 31 out of 33 districts in Assam

Over 25 lakh people displaced, standing crop destroyed, over 3,000 villages affected

Did Labour Ministry delete its paper on Gov’t ban on asbestos mining and use? 

Paper was presented at India-EU Seminar 2011, but asbestos still used for for making Amphan, Covid-19 shelters, says Toxics Watch Alliance

Crushing dissent: Did GOI block websites of three environmental groups?

The three websites were running campaigns against the Centre’s controversial draft EIA 2020

Amphan Relief Fund scam hits WB

Allegations galore with dead people listed as beneficiaries, discrepancies in beneficiary account numbers and misappropriation via transfer of relief funds to politically connected people

Three decades on, many Sardar Sarovar Dam affected persons still await rehabilitation

The third and final part of the series on the project is an overview of the shortcomings of the government in providing resettlement and rehabilitation to project affected persons

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