KALADY: Pilgrimage tourism could have been a staple industry in Kalady, what with its many attractions such as Malayattoor Church, Thiruvairanikkulam Temple, Karthiyayini Temple and mosques in the are ...More

The National Green Tribunal today issued a notice to Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) on a plea seeking to initiate contempt proceedings for non- compliance of its order to stop illegal mini ...More

Asking it to decide over ecologically sensitive areas (ESA) in Western Ghats spreading across six states with utmost expeditiousness, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) Thursday directed the Union mini ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT), New Delhi, in an order on Thursday finally decided in favour of the Kasturirangan Committee report on environmental protection ...More

If Coimbatoreans can rejuvenate river Noyyal, can’t Maduraiites bring Vaigai river back to life? For long enough the Vaigai river has been like a neglected wound across Madurai. Barely a decade ago C ...More

NEW DELHI: After being pulled up by the Supreme Court over clean Ganga mission, the Centre has now prepared a three phase -- short term, mid-term and long-term -- plan, to clean up the river, which in ...More

The bifurcation of the state has put the tigers of Telangana in peril. With the chaos of division yet to settle, the state's two tiger reserves - Kawal and Nagarjunasagar (NSTR) - are missing key offi ...More

The Narendra Modi government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it has identified 118 urban habitations on the banks of the river Ganga for extending the sewerage infrastructure at an estimated cos ...More

After being rebuked by Supreme Court which pulled up the central government stating that going by present ways " Ganga will not be cleaned after 200 years", the central government has now formed a "th ...More

CHENNAI: The Southern bench of the National Green Tribunal has directed the authorities to file their reply on a petition that challenged the environmental clearance (EC) for sand quarrying on the Ara ...More

Expressing concern over illegal sand mining from Narmada riverbed, the central bench of the National Green Tribunal has asked the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to examine the impact on ri ...More

NEW DELHI: Amid speculation that the environment ministry is planning to make NGT a mere advisory body, lawyers, petitioners and even common people are concerned about losing an important instrument o ...More

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed the Delhi government to put a stop to illegal mining carried out on the Yamuna riverbed at Wazirabad and Jagatpur bund area, noting that the rampant illegal ...More

NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday ordered round-the-clock monitoring of effluents discharged by over 700 industries on the banks of Ganga to contain pollution in the holy river. The industries ha ...More

New Delhi: The government will monitor industrial waste flowing into Ganga river by installing real-time monitoring sensors at factories, Prakash Javadekar, minister for environment and forests, sai ...More

Varanasi: The seriousness of the government machinery in executing plans was exposed at a meeting convened by the irrigation department here on Thursday. Many officials failed to attend the meeting. ...More

NEW DELHI: The PM-appointed ministerial committee on infrastructure on Tuesday cleared outstanding issues involving railways and green clearances for road projects entailing investment of at least Rs ...More

Amona, etymologically the village of mango trees, is spread across 734.06ha on the right bank of the River Mandovi in Bicholim taluka. A seven-ward village panchayat, the grassroots governing body was ...More

The forces of free market capitalism and the insatiable ‘developmental’ demand for energy will trump all environmental concerns as well as anxieties about the Ganga When Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...More

KANPUR: UP's sand mining mafia have found a new way to illegally cart out sand from the National Chambal Sanctuary area: With the help of camels. Environmentalists working in the region said that ...More