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The Judicial Ouroboros: The Vanashakti Reversal & Crisis of Environmental Finality in India
Much comment was made about the obvious conflicts between two verdicts of the Supreme Court of India –the Vanshakti judgements—between May and November 2025 and as India lives with the consequences, it is essential to situate the dispute within the broader evolution of environmental constitutionalism in India.
Indian Coal Giants Pushed for Lax Pollution Rules While Ramping Up Operations
Senior Journalist Akshay Deshmane exposes how giant Indian coal companies influenced the Narendra Modi led Indian government to weaken pollution regulations and expand the sector
SC: The right to be free from adverse effects of Climate Change is a fundamental right
This piece examines the often conflicting jurisprudence on indigenous peoples and the right to a safe environment and climate change
Adverse impact of climate change? 43% of farmers found half of their standing crops damaged
Climate change poses a significant threat to Indian agriculture,...
Lack of securing tribal land rights in Andhra ‘exacerbating’ vulnerability to climate change
In the tribal areas of the Eastern Ghats of...
Landslide In Wayanad Is Only The Beginning!
On the morning of July 30, a huge landslide...
Father D’Britto, the pioneer of the Harit Vasai movement, passes away at 81
Father D’Britto had authored over 50 books and was a prolific writer contributing to several Marathi newspaper
Navigating the grey: The Biodiversity Amendment Act, 2023, and the Water Conservation Act, 2024, steps towards leniency or leap into laxity?
A critical analysis of the recent environmental legislation in India
Set aside SIA of ‘unsustainable development projects in Nicobar’: Over 100 former civil servants to President Murmu, GOI
The Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG) consisting of former civil servants have in separate communications to President, Draupadi Murmi, the MHA, NCST and the Director, social Welfare, Andaman and Nicobar Islands urged a credible Social Impact Assessment (SIA) that factors in the impact of such unbridled ‘development’ on the Tribal Reserve in Greater Nicobar and its vulnerable tribal groups
Understanding Uttarakhand’s ‘pain’ of ‘development’, the bane of religious and wild life tourism
Uttarakhand’s’ forest fire has resulted in loss of not...
Assam in shambles after heavy floods, 2 lakh people affected by the floods
Assam sees deaths of over 8 children, with several missing and displaced, and over all 200,000 people affected by the floods after Cyclone Remal wreaks havoc.
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