After nearly two years of efforts by the residents of the colonies surrounding the 400-acre Jahanpanah City Forest in South Delhi, the Delhi Development Authority has finally awarded the work for r

A Jammu and Kashmir Assembly committee on Tuesday recommended a complete ban on the use of polythene throughout the State.

“Detailed discussion was held on the use of polythene and the committee stressed on a complete ban on the use of polythene in every nook and corner of the State,” a State Government spokesman said after a meeting of the committee here.

RTI REVELATION: Environmentalists Suspect The Figure May Be Much Higher

It is estimated that the city has lost one-third of its green cover owing to encroachments, road widening and diverting forest lands for commercial purposes.

A total of 4400 hectares of forest land in Kerala is still in the hands of encroachers, state chief minister Oommen Chandy told the Assembly today.

Forest diversion cases apply to 55 out of 59 working mines in state; these 55 lessees have achieved only partial diversion of their leasehold area

Renewal of mining leases in Odisha is now fraught with a tough challenge following issue of new guidelines by Union ministry of environment & forests (MoEF), making it compulsory for miners to obtain full forest diversion.

Punjab government has chalked out an ambitious Rs 1,900 crore plan for the implementation of the " Greening Punjab Mission" with the target to increase the forest area from 7 to 15 per cent in next

Noida: The Noida Authority has decided to appoint a technical consultant by the end of this month to begin its ambitious Riverfront Development Project.

As many as 19,000 farmers from Solapur district have submitted their objections regarding reservation of land for the Rehekuri Bird sanctuary, spread across the Ahmednagar and Solapur districts.