With its heart set on highlighting the issues plaguing our rivers and oceans, the Moving Waters Film Festival deliberated on cinema’s role in the endeavour Two questions dominated one’s mind at the ...More

SAND Mining in and around water bodies during monsoon brings in depletion of the resources. Accordingly, ban was imposed during the monsoon period for sand mining around river beds. With continuous ra ...More

Bhopal: A spiritual guru from Narsinghpur, Bhaiyaaji, crusading against illegal sand mining and pollution in Narmada river for the past 17 months have now threatened to stage a Bhopal bandh and start ...More

A new web portal has been launched for online submission and monitoring of environmental approvals for mining of sand and minor minerals. Launching the web portal at a workshop on mining of sand and m ...More

New Delhi: In its latest endeavour to lend transparency to the clearance process, the environment ministry on Tuesday launched a portal to facilitate online submission and tracking of requests to mine ...More

New Delhi, Jun 9 () The National Green Tribunal has slammed the Haryanagovernment over illegal sand mining and extraction of minerals on the floodplains ofYamuna in the state and directed it to submit ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said the government is aiming at development protecting the environment. But a blind opposition to all the development projects in the name of e ...More

Surat : A Navsari-based NGO, Ambika River BachaoJanhitRakshaAbhiyan has raised an environment appeal to save the rivers in Navsari district from the indiscriminate sand and gravel mining and the relea ...More

PALAKKAD: The directive of the circuit bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Kochi to the State Government to constitute an expert committee to study the reasons for the pollution of the Bhar ...More

Almost all the markets in Jabalpur remained closed on Saturday in response to a bandh call given by a religious leader, Samarth BhaiyajiMaharaj, to highlight the pollution in the Narmada river. Howev ...More

NEW DELHI: In the first such action against civic bodies for non-compliance on anti-pollution measures, the environment ministry has moved the National Green Tribunal( NGT ) against five municipal bod ...More

Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said the government has taken pollution seriously and is determined to strengthen compliance regime on poll ...More

Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar, has said that the Government has taken pollution seriously. He expressed the governments commi ...More

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT), which will prepare a report after inspecting illegal mining along the Narmada River in Narsingpur ...More

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT), which will prepare a report after inspecting illegal mining along the Narmada River in Narsingpur ...More

The call for alternative methods to solve the water crisis in Ernakulam is growing loud. Conservationists, experts and social activists have urged the policy makers to come up with a vision plan th ...More

Effects of climate change can be mitigated by adopting latest technology for saving water and using it more efficiently, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said. Inaugurating the 4th Ind ...More

New Delhi: Population of Ganga river dolphins has declined considerably and they are on the verge of extinction, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. “As reported by the ministry of water resource, ri ...More

The new capital region Amaravati may have abundant groundwater resources, but a study by the Department of Geology, Andhra University and Civil Engineering Department of MalineniPerumallu Engineering ...More

BHUBANESWAR: In a significant order, the National Green Tribunal (NGT), East Zone Bench has directed the State administration to not allow sand mining on the Brahmani river bed at Dharmasala tehsil of ...More