Environmental issues figured nowhere in Uttarakhand elections
Around 170 hydropower and a number of sand mining projects in the pipeline or underway
Auto Expo review: diesel, electric cars dictated trends
Electric and electric hybrid cars still stuck in concept stage
Mines ministry says no to export ban on minerals to check illegal mining
This was the primary recommendation of Shah Commission in its interim report
Supreme Court allows export of unused endosulfan
Calls for strict monitoring while packaging
Share iron ore mining profits with communities: Patnaik
Writes a letter to PM
Glyphosate: Greenpeace opposes, ABLE disposes
Debate over health and environment concerns
SC seeks details on safe export of endosulfan
Interim ban on the pesticide to continue
Forest title claims of over 50% tribals, forest dwellers rejected: report
Where titles have been granted, average size of land holdings much smaller than what the Forest Rights Act provides for, says status report on …
Diesel exhaust linked to lung cancer
WHO agency says there is compelling evidence to classify diesel fumes as deadly carcinogen along with tobacco, asbestos
Maharashtra bans 15 seed companies permanently
25,000 farmers await compensation from firms that supplied soy seeds with very low germination rate
Real estate: Market happy, but civil society finds it lacking
External commercial borrowings in low-income housing projects will become unaffordable, they say
Nagpur municipality proposes action against private water supplier
Orange City Water Limited fails to supply 24X7 clean water; people demand cancellation of contract
Eat bugs, fight hunger and malnutrition
Beetles, caterpillars, wasps can supplement diets, give nutrition and create employment, says FAO
Odisha launches pilot project for online emissions monitoring of industries
Real time monitoring of industrial emissions will make it possible to introduce accountability and transparency, says pollution control board
MoEF contests green tribunal order on fresh site inspection of Nirma cement plant
National Green Tribunal defers decision in view of submissions made by government counsel and farmers’ body opposing the project
Access to drinking water, power has improved in slum areas, says slum census report
63.5 per cent slum dwellers in Indian cities have mobile phone connections, but only 19 per cent have toilets
Boulder-sized hailstones rain on Rangareddy district, destroy crops
Studies needed to ascertain if freak weather linked to climate change, say Met scientists
Need to scale up power availability in farms up to 2kw/ha: Sharad Pawar
It will increase farm mechanisation and help achieve projected demand of 280 million tonnes foodgrains by 2020
Green tribunal orders halt on all non-forest activities in the Aravallis in Faridabad
Haryana Pollution Control Board directed to submit air quality analysis to determine extent of pollution caused by illegal development activities
Centre directs states to restrict advertisement, promotion of tobacco products
Move follows Supreme Court vacating stay on rules regulating tobacco advertisement and distribution
Elephants unsafe in Odisha
Killing of five elephants in Saturday's train accident takes toll of unnatural deaths of jumbos in past five years up to 194
Opposition turns up the heat on Nitish government over MGNREGA funds scam
Non-profit report says nearly Rs 6,000 crore meant to be paid to wage labourers siphoned off
Who is eligible to raise questions in public hearings?
Sintex power says only those who reside in the region or belong to a non-profit can do so
Demolish hotel being built in Udaisagar lake: HC
Developer Vardhan Enterprise forcibly acquired island in the lake from farmers to build five star hotel
Granite mining scam: Tamil Nadu police raid Union fertiliser minister’s son’s company
He along with others grabbed the land of people belonging to backward caste and used it to store mined granite