Several law schools swept up the honours to be named the cleanest universities in the land, at least, according to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in its now annual Swachhata Ranking Awards, honouring 48 universities and colleges for being tidy, generally hygienic and having great student-toilet ratios.

As some of the world (including lots of youngsters) have been protesting for action against global heating for the past week, we have taken a look at whether India’s legal profession and law schools have done much (and if they can do better).

>The Union environment ministry has withdrawn its demand for a Rs 200 crore restoration fund from Adani Ports & SEZ for damage to the environment imposed during the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, the biggest penalty for green violations.<

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rapped Haryana, Gujarat and Bihar on the drought issue and directed the Centre to convene an urgent meeting with their chief secretaries to assess the drought situations in these states.

The Art of Living (AoL), headed by spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, said today via its lawyer Akshama Nath it was committed to setting up a bio-diversity park at the Yamuna floodplain. “We are working with environmental experts as per the directions of the (National Green Tribunal, NGT) to set...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday gave three weeks to Art of Living (AoL) to pay environmental compensation of Rs 5 crore for holding World Culture Festival on the Yamuna floodplains in Delhi, after AoL’s leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar had said in TV interviews he’d rather go to jail than pay...

In an order, which reads like admission of helplessness, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) today declined to prohibit the holding of multi-crore World Culture Festival (WCF) organized by the Art of Living Foundation on the flood plains of the river Yamuna, after two days of hectic hearing of the parties concerned.

The legislature and judiciary have been mostly aligned in spirit. Judges have been some of the most sympathetic towards environmental causes in recent years, developing a young environmental jurisprudence.

A fascinating article in the New York Times last week (6 January) profiled Rob Bilott, a lawyer at a Cincinatti-based corporate law firm, who “became DuPont’s worst nightmare”…

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the central and Delhi governments as to why pollution compensatory charge be not levied on the trucks and commercial vehicles entering national capital and further contributing to already alarming air pollution in the city.

The Delhi high court on Friday asked the central government to produce an action plan to deal with polluted air in the national capital. A division bench of Justice BD Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva also asked the Delhi government, the Public Works Department, the Delhi Development Authority and...

The Delhi high court yesterday called the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) the “Delhi Destruct Authority” while saying that the land-owning agency and other departments are not concerned about Delhi. “You all are not concerned about Delhi. All of you should be renamed. DDA should be renamed Delhi D...

Taking note of a report that said Delhi was the most polluted city in the world, the Delhi high court Wednesday said if nobody was looking into the issue, it will start giving directions and fix responsibility on the authorities. A division bench of Justice BD Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva aske...

Round up of the latest and most legal from around the web. - Supreme Court: Don’t open our judgments on flimsy grounds [ The Hindu ] - Deadline for Greater Noida ‘hi tech court’ with video conferencing and servers was March 2010, now slated to be done in two months [ Times of India ] - “A Challenge,...