With the ministerial-level talks to begin next week at the UN climate summit here, India today said its position remains very strong on the need for a balanced inclusion of adaptation efforts in the 2 ...More

CHANDIGARH: From climate change to the romantic tale of Heer and Ranjha, the world of puppets will bring alive two diverse stories over two days this weekend as part of culmination of Chandigarh Sange ...More

It’s important for New Delhi to commit itself to a national agenda. International acknowledgment will follow One of the key outcomes of the 18th conference of the Parties to Climate Change (COP) held ...More

Ahmedabad, December 3: SmartSense, developed by Ahmedabad-based Ecolibrium Energy, has won a prestigious United Nations’ climate solutions award for helping customers with energy savings. SmartSe ...More

NEW DELHI: India's mining sector is on the verge of shutting down in two months, industry bodies warned the government, citing an onerous forest clearance requirement imposed by the former UPA governm ...More

The 94 companies in the private equity (PE) portfolio of the feisty investment firm KKR ( Kohlberg Kravis Roberts), one of the world's largest, churn out over $ 200 billion in annual revenues and empl ...More

LIMA: With air pollution levels reaching alarming levels in Indian cities, the government has raised the stakes at global climate negotiations and sent a much bigger team than before to Lima, which in ...More

“Positive that countries will accommodate principle of equity and CBDR (Common But Differentiated Responsibility) in decisions,” says Prakash Javadekar, Union environment, forests and climate change m ...More

New Delhi, Dec. 3: China's and America's proposals to curb their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 are "low on ambition", Union environment and forests minister Prakash Javadekar said today, adding tha ...More

LIMA: With the countries here negotiating crucial points in the run up to the next year's global climate agreement, India on Wednesday made a strong pitch for giving more weight-age to "adaptation" me ...More

Thane: Four groups from Thane city and one from Navi Mumbai have been selected to represent India at the National level of the National Children's Science Congress this year. The competition has been ...More

NEW DELHI: An apparently "non-controversial" bill passed on Wednesday in Lok Sabha became a platform for exchange of barbs and jibes between the government and opposition who sparred over Prime Minist ...More

Nagpur: The decision of screening committee of ministry of environment, forest & climate change (MoEFCC) to clear the name of Central Zoo Authority (CZA) member-secretary BS Bonal to head the powerful ...More

WASHINGTON: The competitive nature of India-China relationship is being exploited by some regional countries to get favourable aid packages to support their own development, a top Pentagon official ha ...More

Mumbai: They are the third-largest storehouse of ice on the planet and contain the world’s tallest mountains with rivers sustaining millions of people. Yet the Himalayan watersheds are one of the le ...More

The Delhi High Court today termed as "unacceptable" the presence of a "badly contaminated" two- kilometre-long water body in the forested area behind 14th century Tughlakabad Fort and directed the aut ...More

WASHINGTON: In the more than two decades since world leaders first got together to try to solve global warming, life on Earth has changed, not just the climate. It's gotten hotter, more polluted with ...More

India, as per a news report, will soon be announcing a target for cutting greenhouse gas emission, including an “aspirational” year of peak emissions. With it, we would have set a template for other d ...More

ANTISANA VOLCANO: Like ailing giants, the tropical glaciers of the Andes Mountains are melting at worrying speed, raising scientists' fears that many will disappear before anything can be done to save ...More

LIMA: With the world attention being shifted to India after the recent US-China bilateral climate agreement, New Delhi appears to be keen on positioning itself away from the Beijing's shadow. Indian g ...More