Eco-tourism guidelines submitted in court misleading: MoEF panel members
Request minister’s intervention on eve of hearing in Supreme Court
Vulture nemesis returns in new avatar
New painkiller used on cattle gets metabolised into diclofenac
Fly ash from Hindalco spills to farms
Odisha pollution control board goes soft on aluminium plant
Community forest rights for Gondia's tribal villages
Improved claim formats; no unfair caveats
Union Cabinet approves disposing of Bhopal waste in Germany
Actual disposal of waste may take up to a year
Restore malgujari tanks to irrigate eastern Vidarbha: study
Irrigation potential of 125,000 ha unused since 1950
20 years down the line what ails the urban local bodies
Lack of money, capacity and states' unwillingness to cede power
Cabinet gives nod to new telecom policy
The policy proposes to delink spectrum from license
Social profiling to be a part of healthcare
ICMR and ICSSR sign MoU to ensure health research benefits all
Arunachal Pradesh postpones public hearing as anti-dam protests get violent
In Assam, activists block road leading to Gerugamukh project on Assam-Arunachal border
Bhagalpur may commission a waste-to-energy plant
Activists say similar plants elsewhere in the country are lying defunct
Teesta deal likely
India and Bangladesh to sign an interim treaty for 15 years
Maldharis demand FRA titles over grasslands
Gujarat forest department's working plan denies pastoral community their customary grazing rights over Banni
Occupy Wall Street goes viral
Will the movement that claims to represent 99 per cent Americans help check the greed of the one per cent super-rich?
Mendha Lekha gets record bamboo rate
Earns 2.5 times more than what the highest rate received by the forest department last year
Monsanto wins against Indiana farmer
US Supreme Court says that planting and harvesting Monsanto’s patented seeds amounts to making additional copies of the company's patented …
A look back at monsoon 2012
Met officials claim accurate predictions of monsoon dates for eight years. Will they be able to do so this time?
Bomb kills 4 protesters at POSCO steel project site
Crude bomb was allegedly hurled by hired local goons at a group gathered in the backyard of a house to discuss land acquisition
Human and pig genes match
Two genomic studies claim to provide crucial data for improving pig stock and biomedical research
Union Cabinet approves amendments in Wildlife (Protection) Act
Makes consultation with gram sabhas mandatory for notifying wildlife sanctuaries and national parks
Wang-Marathwadi dam protest called off
Government gives in-principle approval to ascertain compensation based on the annual income of affected people
States neglecting silicosis: NHRC
Human rights commission calls for collective efforts to provide healthcare, compensation to victims and kin
Urban India's deprived lot
India is becoming dominantly urban, and the urban poor, who are increasing in numbers, face exclusion from basic amenities like safe drinking …
‘Making TB a notifiable disease will benefit patients’
Tuberculosis kills around 1,000 people each day in India and more than two million people are affected by the bacterial disease. This makes India …
India’s forest cover declines
North-eastern states and tribal districts witness unprecedented forest loss