NEW DELHI: If Delhi is really serious about bringing down air pollution levels, it may have to enforce some unpopular measures along the lines of the steps taken by the UK, Singapore and China. In fac ...More

As a result of various Crop Development Schemes being implemented by Government of India through State Governments, production of agricultural crops has been generally increasing except in the years o ...More

NEW DELHI: Vinod Gupta, 65, is a retired bank employee living in Paschim Vihar. Owner of a 1999 Zen car, he's a worried man. "I am retired and used to driving this car. It runs perfectly and gives me ...More

NEW DELHI: Calling for "harsh" measures to tackle the growing problem of air pollution in and around the capital, the National Green Tribunal on Thursday asked the government to consider hiking parkin ...More

NEW DELHI: Calling for "harsh" measures to tackle the growing problem of air pollution in and around the capital, the National Green Tribunal on Thursday asked the government to consider hiking parkin ...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

For more than 20 years, international climate talks have been dominated by a schism between those who created the problem of climate change (largely the United States and nations of the European Union ...More

After an informal meeting between various stakeholders to devise a plan to execute the National Green Tribunal (NGT)’s order to ban 15-year-old vehicles on Delhi’s roads, sources said the tribunal gav ...More

NEW DELHI: It was a punishing two hours for officials from Delhi government as well as ministries from the Centre on Tuesday as National Green Tribunal (NGT) reviewed a coordination meeting after its ...More

NEW DELHI: Lutyens' Bungalow Zone, the 26-sq-km zone populated by ministers, generals and judges, is a big culprit behind air pollution in the city. The gardeners here routinely break the law by burni ...More

Studying in the United Kingdom in the late 90s, I remember how difficult it was to commute in Central London. One would often get off the bus and walk to the destination because it was faster. This ...More

In 1995, India’s Parliament passed the National Environment Tribunal Act. The law was to provide compensation to victims of environmental accidents. It was to ensure special courts quickly decided dam ...More

BENGALURU: As of March this year, there were 3,67,663 vehicles plying in the city which are more than 15 years old, according to the Transport Department. In the light of a recent ruling by the Natio ...More

Climate change is back on the international agenda. The announcement of a greenhouse gas emissions agreement between the United States and China had been preceded by a European Union commitment to fur ...More

KANCI KULON: The sprawling power station that hums and coughs along this coast in Indonesia is labeled as a Japanese contribution to the global fight against climate change. But the Cirebon plant, ...More

The Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority has urged the Supreme Court to direct all Delhi schools to declare a holiday on days air pollution levels are so high they are deemed parti ...More

NEW DELHI: A day after the National Green Tribunal ordered a number of steps to check the rising level of air pollution in Delhi, experts Friday demanded innovative institutional measures to address t ...More

Chennai: The Centre’s Ganga clean-up project is the ‘beginning’ of the Modi government’s mission to clean up all the major water bodies in India, including the southern rivers, Union environment minis ...More

NEW DELHI: In its recent report, TSR Subramanian Committee—formed by the ministry of environment, forests and climate change to review key environmental laws — has recommended a "revised system of tax ...More

Dismayed at the dangerous levels of air pollution in Delhi due to vehicular emission, the National Green Tribunal has, as an interim measure, banned all vehicles — diesel or petrol — over 15-years old ...More