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Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 12, 2026)

India, Jan. 13 -- Construction materials dumped on Budhi Gandak The question that arises is whether the geo-bags containing sand placed in the Budhi Gandak river stream during the construction of the... Read More


Uttarakhand: Activists cheer verdict for Shivalik elephants even as state goes ahead with development projects in pachyderm corridors

India, Jan. 13 -- Wildlife activists in Uttarakhand have hailed a recent ruling by the state high court that offers protection to elephant corridors, even as the state goes all out with development pr... Read More


Is H5N1 bird flu pandemic brewing?

India, Jan. 13 -- The H5N1 bird flu virus is just one mutation away from human-to-human transmission. With 992 human cases reported since 2003, nearly half have been fatal. Scientists warn of its pa... Read More


What is the global water cycle and how is it amplifying climate disasters?

India, Jan. 13 -- Floods, droughts, heatwaves and bushfires are increasingly connected through shifts in the global water cycle A warming atmosphere is intensifying evaporation, rainfall extremes and... Read More


India's 60 million street dogs are turning from village scavengers to city territory defenders

India, Jan. 13 -- Growing up in rural India, my grandmother would feed the village dog half a chapati and a bowl of milk each afternoon, surely insufficient for its needs. The dog survived by scavengi... Read More


Why India's cities struggle to keep tap water safe - and what Odisha did differently

India, Jan. 13 -- At least 21 people are reported to have died in Indore after drinking contaminated tap water, exposing systemic failures in urban water supply Experts link repeated outbreaks to age... Read More


India's EV push accelerates amid debate on cost-effectiveness of incentives

India, Jan. 13 -- India's push for electric vehicles has seen significant progress, with mass adoption and increased investments. However, research highlights that EV incentives are a costlier method... Read More


Across Bengal, Adivasi workers and organisations challenge symbolic politics, wage insecurity through movements and alliances

India, Jan. 12 -- Adivasi workers and organisations across Bengal are mobilising outside party politics to press demands on wages, forest rights and dignity Tea garden workers in north Bengal and pro... Read More


Care for a sip? Tripura villagers complain of contaminated, high iron drinking water supply

India, Jan. 12 -- Residents of Satyaram Chowdhury Para in Dhalai district of Tripura have a strange predicament. The village, with 150 households of the predominantly Reang indigenous tribe, is covere... Read More


Sewage before supply

India, Jan. 12 -- When people die in India's cleanest ranked city, Indore, because of dirty drinking water, shock and condemnation are justified. But this is not really about Indore, nor is it about w... Read More