Highly placed sources in the ministry said that the government wanted to go slow on the matter, fearing backlash from various states, in an...

The central pollution control board (CPCB), under its national water quality monitoring programme, has stated that the urban centres located on the...

Thermal power plants, based on coal, lignite, naptha and gas of less than 500 megawatts(MW), seeking prior environmental clearances(EC) from the state...

Numerous small and big real estate projects in UP, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra were over-extracting water from the...

The Himalayan states have learned no lessons from the Kedarnath disaster and are continuing to ignore the sustainable governance practices floated by...

The centre feels that mining on the riverbed of Gola River in Uttarakhand is not causing any ecological disturbance and harm to the critical wildlife...

Most hydropower construction companies, in order to clear the mountains for the projects, are involved in blasting and heavy drilling of the rocks,...

Serious flaws in the Environment Impact Assessment Notification (EIA) 2006 have killed most of the rivers of the country, environmentalists opined.The...

The government has, finally, acknowledged that wildlife poaching in the country is linked to terror. The ministry of environment and forests has...

India has been chosen as one of the thirteen countries in the world to be the beneficiary of the next-generation lighthouse activities aimed at...

The new corpus would be set up by the government with voluntary assistance from the corporate houses of the country.According to ministry officials,...

Assessing the vulnerability of agriculture in 161 districts of IGP to climate change, the IARI, in its first such study, has found districts in...