India set to get new biodiversity law; will it have teeth

The amendments have faced intense criticism as they favoured industry at cost of the communities that have preserved India’s biodiversity …

Karnataka home minister opposes Kasturirangan Report on ESA, calls it ‘unscientific’

MoEF&CC’s draft notification for declaring 20,668 sq km of ESZ in Karnataka faces tough resistance from local MLAs

Bhupender Yadav launches field manual for forest staffers to manage human-elephant conflict

Yadav also released the Preliminary Report on Human Elephant Conflict and a booklet titled Trumpet

As told to Parliament (March 21, 2022): PM10 pollution worsened in 31 cities in 2020-21, decreased in 96

All that was discussed in the House through the day

India likely to miss at 17 key government targets in 2022: DTE State of Environment

In meeting Sustainable Development Goals, India has slipped three places since last year and now stands at 120th rank among 192 countries

Bhupender Yadav releases DTE’s State of India’s Environment 2022

Climate change, desertification and the sustainability-affordability linkage three extremely critical issues facing India today

CSE’s annual media conclave, the Anil Agarwal Dialogue, to be held from March 1-4

Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, will release the State of India’s Environment 2022 report at …

DTE Exclusive: Environment minister Bhupender Yadav writes why CoP26 was a success for India

A collaborative, not competitive, approach alone can save our planet. That is why India upped its commitment to the cause of saving the planet …

PHOTO GALLERY | Kisan Sansad at Jantar Mantar: Farmers finally gather within New Delhi

As the monsoon session of Parliament progresses, farmers protesting on the borders of Delhi for eight months are holding their parallel …

Expedite climate action, focus on protected areas: What Bhupendra Yadav should map out

The new environment minister has inherited governance challenges from his predecessor as the country experiences institutional inefficiency

Farmers to decide on govt’s invite to talk today

Transporters in the National Capital Region threaten to go on strike if farmers’ demands are not met

Migration crisis wasn’t handled well by Nitish government: Shaibal Gupta

Shaibal Gupta, social scientist at Asian Development Research Institute, spoke to DTE on Bihar polls and its national importance

A ‘kick’ass jibe

Could Akhilesh Yadav’s ‘gadha’ comment increase awareness about wild equid conservation in India?

Amid election din, encephalitis quietly kills 104 people in east UP

Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's tall claims of improving UP's healthcare system is an insult to the people

Government to pay Rs 11,000 crore for MGNREGA in drought-hit states

While hearing a case on the matter, the Supreme Court slammed the Centre for its ‘non-serious’ attitude and directed it to give …

Left without a vote

Uttar Pradesh government's repeated attempts to bring villages under industrial authorities are against the spirit of the Constitution

Mining effect: Aravalli gets new lakes

Deep digging in the mountain range for minerals has ruptured aquifers that now water mining pits

Why Horlicks ad claim on boiled milk is hard to digest

Claim by GlaxoSmithKline that makes the milk supplement harps only on one aspect of study, which incidentally is funded by another multinational&…

Rise of wives of don-politicians

As many as six-don turned politicians in Bihar are fielding their wives in Lok Sabha election 2014

Who said what in Parliament on food security Bill

Parliamentarians object to provisions in proposed legislation

India’s tiger population bounces to 2,226 from a low of 1,411

Tiger census 2014 says cause for worry now is declining tiger populations in northern Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Jharkhand

Bihar slashes spending on education and social welfare

Coal-based power receives a major boost in the state budget presented on March 12

India becomes first country to adopt an agroforestry policy

Four-day world congress on agroforestry in Delhi pushes for accelerating growing trees on farms for sustainable agriculture and mitigating …

Procurement prices low in Maharashtra since 1996; farmers bear the brunt

Low minimum support price has led to severe agrarian crisis in Maharashtra

Bt brinjal biopiracy case: court vacates stay

Karnataka High Court allows biodiversity boards to go ahead with criminal prosecution of seed company Mahyco and others, accused to using local …