NAGPUR: Sand ghat owners, builders and contractors have breathed a sigh of relief as union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has relaxed norms for sand mining. Sand ghats having area of les ...More

PANAJI: The decision by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to ban sand extraction in a lease area of less than five hectares has drawn a mixed reaction with environmentalists urging the go ...More

Are the environmental ministry’s easing of environmental norms relating to mining of minor minerals, river sand mining and thermal power plants a first step to the dismantling of green regulatory no ...More

RAIPUR: Sand miners have a reason to cheer now. The long-drawn crisis faced by construction sector due to stoppage of sand mining, following a directive by National Green Tribunal (NGT) in August this ...More

NEW DELHI: The environment ministry has eased the environmental clearance process for industry, particularly at the state level. In some projects relating to mining of minor minerals, river sand minin ...More

NEW DELHI: Heeding to states' plea for simplification of green clearance process, the Union environment and forests ministry has come out with detailed guidelines giving more powers to states by exemp ...More

NEW DELHI: Heeding to states' request for simplification of green clearance process, the Union environment ministry has come out with detailed guidelines giving more powers to states by exempting cert ...More

NEW DELHI: Where do the debris ( malba) left after the renovation of your house go? Either it remains near your plot, or is dumped along roads, vacant plots and water bodies. In Delhi, for instance, ...More

Mining banned, agriculture, plantations and rural activities not regulated, Ministry clarifies The Union Environment Ministry took another step towards implementing the Kasturirangan report on Wester ...More

The Union Environment Ministry on Friday has removed restrictions on setting up a large number of industries in the ecologically sensitive Western Ghats, one of the world's top biodiversity hot spots, ...More

The Environment Ministry, following the 'in principle' acceptance of the Kasturirangan committee report, issued a fresh order on Friday, easing norms on activities related to plantations and agricultu ...More

The union environment ministry Friday allowed agriculture and plantation activities along the Western Ghats which had been banned through an order last month. "The earlier OM (office memorandum)...da ...More

The Environment ministry today informed the National Green Tribunal that it has initiated steps to implement the recommendations of the K Kasturirangan panel on Western Ghats and a high-level committe ...More

MUMBAI: A plot of mangrove land, worth crores of rupees, located along Mahul creek in Chembur was found to have been filled with chemical wastes by the real estate mafia to reclaim it illegally. St ...More

VARANASI: For the health of Ganga, the Ganga River Basin Management Plan (GRBMP) has suggested some restriction of environmentally harmful activities that damage the river and its environment. At the ...More

AURANGABAD: With increasing environmental concerns, bids for sand mining in Marathwada have been invited for only 451 sand belts in its eight districts, compared to 478 in 2012. The number of combi ...More

VARANASI: The Ganga River Basin Management Plan (GRBMP) prepared by the consortium of seven IITs, in collaboration with 11 other prestigious institutions of the country, recommends Urban River Managem ...More

PUDUCHERRY: The sand mafia in Puducherry, which is continuing with illegal mining on the banks of a river here despite the National Green Tribunal's ban on it, seems to have found a new ground nearby ...More

Visakhapatnam: Despite the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) order in August banning sand mining without environmental clearance, across the country, the activity is going on unabated in many places i ...More

VARANASI: Taking suo moto cognizance of a news report on the plight of the Ganga published in The Times of India, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday issued notice to the Secretar ...More