Beware, dangerous pollutants are spooking your air

Pollution levels in major north Indian cities are either 'very poor' or 'severe'

Whitefly lesson

A few villages in Haryana successfully grow cotton amid widespread destruction of the crop by whitefly in the region

Toll contractor refuses to levy ‘green tax’ on trucks in Delhi

Says collecting tax from trucks entering Delhi as ordered by Supreme Court is 'an impossible task'

Supreme Court upholds pollution levy on trucks entering Delhi

The apex court will give an order on Monday based on directions prepared by amicus curiae

‘Our main concern is to stop on-street parking on some Gurgaon corridors’

Bharti Arora, Joint Commissioner, Traffic, Gurgaon, is the brain behind city’s car-free day initiative. She talks about how the …

Car-free Gurgaon, really?

It seemed more like a “no parking day” in the city

Why dengue is not the devil

Lack of preparedness in our fight against this vector-borne disease is much to blame for it spreading fast 

Detergent detector

New test to identify synthetic milk

44 per cent of India's districts face rain deficit

Major food-producing states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Punjab are the worst affected

High court notice to Haryana on new criteria for panchayat elections

The court had earlier stayed the decision to make academic qualifications more stringent

Life after hail

SC notice to Haryana, Rajasthan for failing to check mining in the Aravallis

Asks the two states to file report on what they have done to implement the mining ban ordered in 2002

Loss from illegal sand mining on Air Force land pegged at Rs 1.4 crore

Faridabad deputy commissioner's report to National Green Tribunal estimates that 60,000 metric tonnes of sand has been mined illegally from the …

Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor: people oppose Manesar-Bawal segment of project at public hearing

Deputy Commissioner of Rewari district orders probe after people object to high pollution from existing Daruhera industrial estate, which is …

Khap panchayat bans paddy

Rice cultivation has led to waterlogging and soil salinity in Haryana’s Jhajjar district

A home-grown drought

Monsoon this year has failed most of India, causing drought in even well-irrigated and rainfed areas. Ravleen Kaur reports how our food …

Straw in the wind

Punjab's paddy dilemma

In 2009, Punjab became the first state in the country to enact a law banning the sowing of rice before a stipulated date. The aim was to arrest …

Lift your head from the sand

Ban paves the way

The bar on polluting brick kilns opens up opportunities for cleaner technologies

Plan that isn’t

NCR Planning Board dilutes environmental safeguards to promote towns, industries

Mission possible

The Centre gives India just about eight years to free its villages of open defecation. This seems unlikely. But the states of Sikkim, Haryana and …

On foot and pedal

The teeming millions on foot and pedal are powering mobility in Indian cities. Their numbers exceed those who use cars. Yet they are victims of …

Delhi, Haryana need not spar over Yamuna waters

Though solutions involve engineering challenges, they can certainly lead to a win-win situation for both the parties

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