T he Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2023, was approved in the Lok Sabha on 28th July and passed in the Rajya Sabha on 2nd August. The Bill amends the Mines and. . .

T he past nine years of BJP government led by Narendra Modi has witnessed outrageous attacks on environment laying the way for more and more corporate takeover of natural resources disregarding people’s rights. Environment regulations. . .

O n March 29, 2023 The Central Government introduced a bill in Lok Sabha to amend the Forest (Conservation) Act (FCA) 1980, which came into force to arrest deforestation and provide for forest conservation. The. . .

O n October 18th, 2022, Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has recommended that the ‘environmental release’ of the genetically modified (GM) mustard variety DMH (Dhara Mustard. . .

I n January 2022, various environmental, human rights and socio-political activists of West Bengal came together to form a platform called ‘Poribesh Odhikar Andolon’. The immediate context of forming the platform is the need to. . .

T he Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has notified the new Forest (Conservation) Rules, 2022 (FCR, 2022) under the Forest (Conservation) Act on 28 June replacing earlier Forest (Conservation) Rules notified in. . .

D eocha Pachami coal block, situated at Mohammadbazar block in Birbhum district of West Bengal has been reported as the largest coal mine in Asia and second largest in the world. It has been allocated. . .