Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar has cleared the appointment of Union Environment Secretary Dr V Rajagopalan as chairman of the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) even though his predecessor ...More

The Delhi government has drawn up a plan to boost public transport by buying buses, building depots and asking Delhi Metro and Northern Railways to augment their services and provide last-mile connect ...More

E-rickshaws, stricter emission norms and zero tolerance zones for car parking are part of Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung’s plans to control pollution in Delhi. E-rickshaws, stricter emission norms ...More

Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung Friday agreed to measures suggested by a high-powered committee to curb air and water pollution in the national capital. Jung had set up the committee in May this year ...More

In a significant development, Delhi lieutenant-governor Najeeb Jung on Friday accepted the short-term and long-term recommendations made by a committee to curb air and water pollution in the city. T ...More

With Delhi categorised as the most polluted city by a UN body, the city government on Friday embarked on an ambitious programme to clean its air and water which includes 100 per cent treatment of sewa ...More

GURGAON: At the pet shops in Sadar Bazaar and New Railway Road, no one seems aware that the Wildlife Protection Act bans the capture and sale of all endangered species of Indian fauna. Here, exotic bi ...More

Mr. Jung accepted the recommendations of a high-powered committee E-rickshaws, stricter emission norms and zero tolerance zones for car parking are part of Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung’s plans to ...More

NEW DELHI: Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung on Friday agreed to measures suggested by a high-powered committee to curb air and water pollution in the national capital. Jung had set up the committee ...More

A visiting US team has told Indian negotiators it would link pacts on the power sector to the agreement the two countries draw on climate change and one would not happen without the other. This mes ...More

PUNE: Pune city is losing its green cover, thanks to the increasing number of slums and conversion of agriculture land into non agriculture for construction purpose. The issue of impact on gree cove ...More

Pune: Monsoon shows an increase in the cases of asthma and other respiratory ailments according to city based doctors even though the city has recorded the lowest emission inventory levels in terms of ...More

There are nearly 25 lakh four-wheelers in Delhi with an estimated 1.6 lakh new four-wheelers being added every year. The four-wheeler boom in the Capital has contributed to the air pollution in a maj ...More

Trees are saving more than 850 human lives a year and preventing 670,000 incidences of acute respiratory symptoms in the US, a new study has found. While trees' pollution removal equated to an avera ...More

LONDON: The world's most accurate and precise reconstruction of lead pollution over the Earth's southernmost continent has confirmed that dangerous industrial pollution reached the South Pole over t ...More

Smart is as smart does. The government's proposal to build 100 "smart" cities will work only if it can reinvent the very idea of urban growth in a country such as India. Smart thinking will require th ...More

NAVI MUMBAI: The civic engineering department invited a tender for an air pollution control system chimney at the Teen Taki crematorium in Koparkhairane on Wednesday. Locals had been demanding for t ...More

VARANASI: While the new Varanasi Master Plan 2031 has proposed green belts along the Varuna and Asi rivers on 1,870.20 hectares and another 4,652.70 hectares for parks, stadium, open area, green belt ...More

The National Green Tribunal's eastern zone bench has issued notice to the Meghalaya government over a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on air, water and environmental pollution in the st ...More

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal's eastern zone bench has issued notice to the Meghalaya government over a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on air, water and environmental pollution ...More