NEW DELHI: A number of path-breaking orders to curb pollution and a strict watch on illegal mining kept the National Green Tribunal (NGT) busy in 2014 as it also cracked the whip on firms polluting th ...More

A number of path-breaking orders to curb pollution and a strict watch on illegal mining kept the National Green Tribunal (NGT) busy in 2014 as it also cracked the whip on firms polluting the Ganga. ...More

NEW DELHI: A number of path-breaking orders to curb pollution and a strict watch on illegal mining kept the National Green Tribunal (NGT) busy in 2014 as it also cracked the whip on firms polluting ...More

The ecologically-sensitive Western Ghats will remain off-bounds for new mining, sand mining, quarrying and some category of industrial activities, the Ministry of Environment and Forests said. But u ...More

NOIDA: Alarming implications of distorting wildlife habitat unearthed in Noida on Wednesday after a fully grown 11 feet long Indian rock python was recovered along Delhi-Noida-Delhi flyover. At least ...More

New Delhi: The Indian college kids on break would never have reached that alluring spot on the Beas River without a lane carved by trucks and tractors operated by a network of criminals known as the s ...More

Concerned over the protection of critically endangered Ghariyal and its habitat in Madhya Pradesh, Central Bench of National Green Tribunal has summoned the state chief wildlife warden and chief cons ...More

Thane: Notwithstanding the ban on sand dredging, the extraction of natural resources from river and creek beds in Thane district continues unabated and is a flourishing business. Going by talks wi ...More

KOCHI: A division bench of Kerala High Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the state government challenging a single bench order permitting the private sector to undertake mineral sand mining in t ...More

Sand illegally mined from the Yamuna riverbed in Noida-Greater Noida region is now in huge demand from builders in Delhi outskirts, especially for the construction of upcoming residential and commerci ...More

KOZHIKODE: The decision of the district administration to temporarily lift the ban on river sand mining is likely to benefit many who are forced to stop construction of their houses the midway owing t ...More

Prime minister Narendra Modi's office has expressed its worries over union environment ministry's cases being stuck in the Supreme Court as it has led to huge delays in infrastructure projects worth s ...More

R. Vishal, who took charge as the Deputy Commissioner of Udupi district on Wednesday, said that he would ensure protection of environment and promotion of development in Udupi district. An IAS offic ...More

Dehradun: At least seven permissions for sand mining, many of them given last year, were found to be in violation of norms laid down by the Union ministry of environment and forests. Not only district ...More

India burrows deep for its water. Groundwater extraction in most northern states including Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan has reached 100 per cent (when annual extraction exceeds water availabil ...More

Concerned over large scale illegal sand mining across states, the Union mines ministry has convened meeting of all states and Union Territories next week to discuss the legal and administrative framew ...More

MANGALORE: In a bid to save the endemic freshwater fish in the Western Ghats, the Pilikula Nisargadhama near Mangalore has launched a conservation programme. Nisargadhama, in Moodushedde village, was ...More

The National Green Tribunal has pulled up the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) for the illegal sand mining going on in National Chambal Sanctuary. The tribunal was hearing a petition by ...More

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal today directed the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to ensure that no sand mining is permitted in the name of dredging of Yamuna at Wazirabad and Jagatpur bund areas here ...More

KOLLAM: The district committee of Purogamana Kala Sahithya Sangham (Pukasa) is holding a meet on October 13 to discuss the issues affecting the Ashtamudi Lake. The meet at NGO Union Hall here will be ...More