May 20, 2025 12:02 pm
The SC bench rapped the Centre for issuing orders “to protect those who have caused harm to the environment”. What was the court’s rationale?
December 14, 2024 4:20 pm
According to the report titled "District-Level Climate Risk Assessment for India: Mapping Flood and Drought Risks Using IPCC Framework", 51 districts in India face "very high" flood risk, with 118 more categorised as "high" risk.
September 07, 2020 2:14 am
The last date for filing objections and suggestions to the draft was August 11, by which time the ministry received 19.8 lakh responses.
September 04, 2020 6:13 pm
The Environment ministry has contended that notifications or draft notifications and other official documents are required to be issued only in Hindi and English and there is no mandate in law to issue them in any other vernacular or local languages.
August 18, 2020 12:00 pm
The OIL statement added that data collection at the site has been completed for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study by various agencies.
August 12, 2020 12:14 am
Environment ministry must heed criticisms of draft EIA, do justice to process of public consultation.
August 12, 2020 12:52 pm
Draft EIA Notification 2020 dilutes environmental protections and is in denial of ecological crises, writes Shibani Ghosh.
August 11, 2020 10:02 am
The environment ministry needs to be clear about its role — its mandate is to create and sustain a regulatory framework that prevents the plunder of our natural resources, not actively accelerate the pace of environmental devastation.



