The Orissa governemnt has been restrained from leasing out forest land and water bodies in the Bhitarkanika Sanctuary. The state government has further been restrained from allowing any aquaculture
The Gujarat government has asked the Centre not to allow the World Commission on Dams (WCD) team to hold its "so-called inquiry" on dams like the one on the Narmada river which has been the subject
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India's premier R &D organisation, has tied up with multinational giants Mobil, Amoco and Stone and Webster for technology transfer and
The serie of landslides in the western Himalayas in August were caused by seven decades's unplanned development activities on the world's youngest mountain system, said environmentalists. Mr
In what are believed to be the after-effects of the 1991 Uttarkashi earthquake, large cracks have developed along a valley formed by the Jalkur, a tributary of the Bhagirathi, which joins the main
The forest department has pulled up a senior member of the prominent Mumbai-based Bombay Environmental Action Group (BEAG), Colonel Mohite, for allowing illegal felling of trees in the
Even as Punjab and Haryana squabble over sharing river water, they have found a common cause against the Prem Kumar Dhumal Government in Himachal Pradesh on the controversial cess on water for hydel
While the spread of dropsy has been contained after it claimed 49 lives over six weeks, largely due to ban on sale and consumption of mustard oil, experts have adviced restraint for some more time,
A medical team, comprising a skin specialists, a Professor of Social and preventive Medicine, a micro-biologist and the District Medical and health Officer, left Visakhapatnam on Monday for
The Delhi High Court today issued show cause notices to the Union Health and Environment Ministries and the Delhi Health Department on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) Petition seeking a blanket
