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Dr. Prachi Jain

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Compassion Meets Common Sense: SC Orders Stray Dogs Be Sterilised, Vaccinated, and Returned — Except the Rabid or Aggressive

In a vital correction to its earlier directive, the Supreme Court of India, on August 22, 2025, ruled that stray dogs must be vaccinated,...

No Sand Without Science: Supreme Court Bans Blind Mining Without Replenishment Data

In a landmark judgment dated August 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of India, in Union Territory of J & K & Anr. v. Raja...

The Extinction of Experience: How Humanity is Losing Its Bond with Nature

A new study warns of a 60% decline in people’s connection to nature since 1800 — a drop that mirrors the disappearance of words...

Chemical Pollution: The Hidden Crisis as Dangerous as Climate Change

Chemical pollution is emerging as a global threat on par with climate change — yet it lags decades behind in public awareness and action,...

A Growing Toxic Legacy: The Global Plastics Crisis

A new report in The Lancet warns that the 8 billion tons of plastic waste accumulated on Earth now pose a severe and escalating...

Cloudburst in Dharali: When Nature’s Fury Meets Human Folly

On August 5, 2025, the serene Himalayan village of Dharali in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district was transformed into a scene of devastation. A sudden cloudburst...

Devastation in the Himalayas: Flash Flood Leaves 100 Missing and Town in Ruins

A sudden and powerful cloudburst triggered a devastating flash flood in Dharali village, Uttarakhand, on Tuesday, sweeping away buildings and homes in a violent...

Supreme Court Quashes Center’s Blanket Exemption: Educational and Inustrial Buildings must undergo Environmental clearances

In a landmark judgment delivered on August 5, 2025, the Supreme Court of India, in the case of Vanashakti v. Union of India, struck...

Pollution Control Boards Empowered to Impose Environmental Compensation

In a watershed judgment delivered on August 4, 2025, the Supreme Court of India, in the case of Delhi Pollution Control Committee v. Lodhi...

SC Reaffirms SEIAA & SEAC as Authoritative Bodies for Project-Level Environmental Clearances

In a vital judgment delivered on August 6, 2025, the Supreme Court of India, in Vanashakti v. Union of India (W.P.(C) No. 166/2025), decisively addressed...

The Court Has Spoken: Why the ICJ’s Climate Opinion Is a Legal Earthquake the World Must Heed

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has just delivered what may be the most consequential legal verdict of our generation—not in the form of...

Forests Are Not Real Estate’: Supreme Court Halts Bulldozers in Kancha Gachibowli Deforestation Case

In a powerful intervention upholding India’s environmental rule of law, the Supreme Court took suo motu cognisance of the large-scale overnight deforestation in Kancha...

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