BHOPAL: National Green Tribunal (NGT), Bhopal bench, has served notices to the state government for violation of environmental laws in issuance of lease for sand mining in Betul and Hoshangabad distri ...More

Mining stopped following National Green Tribunal sought Environment Clearance for it Mining of river sand may be resumed for six months in Kerala after obtaining the quantity of sand collected from ...More

LUCKNOW: Illegal sand mining is posing the biggest threat to the last of the wild and breeding ghariyals left. Found in maximum strength in National Chambal Sanctuary running across three states- UP, ...More

As river sand gets scarcer by the day, T. Ch. Madhavi looks at alternatives One of the reasons why construction projects have slowed down in recent months is the inadequate supply of sand. This, plu ...More

LUCKNOW: Illegal sand mining is posing biggest threat to last of the wild and breeding ghariyals left. Found in maximum strength in national chambal sanctuary running along three states — UP, MP and ...More

Pathanamthitta is in the grip of acute water scarcity. The Pampa, regarded as the lifeline of Central Travancore, and other natural water sources are drying up fast in the scorching sun. Farmlands in ...More

New Delhi: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) will consider recommendations of all six states in the K. Kasturirangan report about ecologically sensitive areas (ESA) in the Western Ghats. ...More

India has driven the truck of development — loaded with tar, bricks, glass, concrete…the works — right through its most treasured and fragile green spaces in the last decade. While major cities ...More

KPCC president V M Sudheeran on Thursday called upon the government to form a committee in each district comprising of officials from various departments to look into complaints related to sand mining ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Greens in the state are planning to move the National Green Tribunal (NGT) against the environmental clearance given by the State Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (SEI ...More

The National Green Tribunal Pune bench on Tuesday directed all collectors and police commissioners in the coastal areas of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa to henceforth strictly prohibit and monitor the ...More

PANAJI: The Bombay high court declared the Sawantwadi-Dodamarg wildlife corridor, linking sanctuaries in Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka, an ecologically sensitive area (ESA) and ordered the central go ...More

KOZHIKODE: Six gram panchayats on the bank of Iruvanjir river have joined hands to protect the river from pollution. The move is in the backdrop of a study conducted by Kodiyathur gram panchayat on ...More

PUNE: The National Green Tribunal, western zone bench, Pune on Tuesday, directed all collectors and police commissioners of the coastal zone areas and districts in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa, to ins ...More

Three companies — two in Maval and one in Haveli — have been served showcause notices by the District Planning and Environment Committee for emptying untreated effluents into rivers. “Venky’s ...More

The state is planning to approach the Supreme Court with a plea for relaxation of conditions imposed on rock quarrying and sand mining in the state by the Green Tribunal as well as the apex court, in ...More

The brazen manner in which the Union minister for environment and forests, Veerappa Moily, has cleared over 70 projects in a matter of 20-odd days has come in for flak even from international organisa ...More

Amnesty, Greenpeace raise a stink. The alarcity with which the Union minister for environment and forests, Veerappa Moily, has cleared over 70 projects in a matter of 20-odd days has come in for flak ...More

KOZHIKODE: The ban on sand mining imposed in the district last month has forced many buyers and contractors to go for substitutes to carry out the construction works. They have been making use of t ...More

NAGPUR: Sand ghat owners, builders and contractors have breathed a sigh of relief as union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has relaxed norms for sand mining. Sand ghats having area of les ...More