MoEF halts civil work to raise level of Dhari Devi temple for Alaknanda dam

Hydropower project developer asked to wait for Supreme Court decision  

Who gets how much

Budget outlay for different ministries and departments

Railway budget proposes a slew of measures for modernisation

Cost will be met through borrowings and debt service fund

Andhra Pradesh plans separate budget for agriculture and allied sectors

It would include a Rs 100-crore pilot project to introduce solar pump sets

'Space missions can change the technology environment of a country'

NASA scientist says India needs to attract talent into science, not management

Cyclonic rains ravage coastal Andhra; death toll rises to 25

Crops on 250,000 hectares destroyed, 60,000 people in relief camps

GoM clears Land Acquisition Bill

Makes compulsory approval of the gram sabhas for acquiring land in tribal areas

Stem cell breakthrough gets Nobel in medicine

British scientist John B Gurdon and his Japanese counterpart Shinya Yamanaka honoured

Rural expenditure up by 33 per cent: NSSO

Around 83 million rural people still live on less than Rs 20 a day

Risk of diabetic women delivering abnormal babies quantified

They have a seven per cent chance of having babies with birth defects

'Mystery cat not a new species'

WII says it could be a leopard cat or a hybrid between wild and domestic cat

Will the new BJP government rein in Goa's mining mafia?

Non-profits point out that BJP fielded candidates who are in the mining business

Tremors shake Delhi

Epicentre in Haryana

Passion for cycling shaped his mission for environment

Meet Vaibhav Desai, a software engineer turned environmental activist

Pigs in Delhi found carrying Japanese encephalitis virus

Seven people have tested positive for the disease since September

Kudankulam: the deadlock continues

Rio+20 postponed. Date clashed with Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee

54 Commonwealth head of states would have had to choose between the two events

A yatra to highlight looting of land

Companies will pay a pittance as compensation to extract coal in Hazaribagh

Bengaluru lakes to get facelift

Karnataka High Court sets 2014 deadline to clean up 189 water bodies

West Bengal bans ammonia use as refrigerant

State pollution board’s decision comes after three gas leaks hit Kolkata

Haiti cholera victims threaten to drag UN to court for compensation

8,000 people have lost their lives because of the disease in the past two-and-a-half years

Green tribunal bans use of gas, electronic cutters in dismantling machinery in Delhi's Mayapuri scrap market

Orders MoEF to install scanners to prevent recurrence of radiation mishaps like the one in 2010

Delhi government diverting water to hotels, alleges BJP MLA

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit admits 11 underground reservoirs lying idle because of water shortage

Budget 2013: 10 per cent surcharge on the super rich is justified and needed

But this needs to be accompanied by measures to improve compliance and wealth tax collection

Cauvery tribunal award is finally notified

Protests feared in Karnataka; government beefs up security in the river basin delta areas and around KRS reservoir near Mysore