Funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) are now being put to a strange use - building walls around government forests!

In a letter addressed to chief ministers of states, Tribal Affairs Minister KC Deo has lamented the development saying it’s ironic how MNREGA funds were being used in states to build “high stone walls around government forests” thereby denying tribals and traditional forest dwellers access to their own land and produce.

Experts, though, deem it premature to call it a recurrence of an epidemic

With two cases of swine flu reported in West Bengal recently, concerns have been raised over a possible recurrence since a two-and-a-half-year hiatus.
Officials of the State’s Department of Health and Family Welfare, though, said on Sunday that it was “too premature” to comment on whether the threat of another swine flu epidemic loomed.

Industries located along the Gangetic delta in Haldia, Kolkata and its outskirts are polluting the fragile ecosystem of Sundarbans, home to 40 lakh people and the Royal Bengal Tiger, a latest study

State-run power producer NTPC and Coal India (CIL) have agreed to begin third party sampling of coal from the state-run miner's collieries from Thursday.

Seven years after the Forest Rights Act was enacted, the Centre has found flaws that prevent benefits from percolating to the forest dwellers and tribals.

Spikes in air pollution over Calcutta seem to increase the count of lightning flashes in the sky and ozone levels near the ground during the thunderstorm season from April to May, a study suggests.

Gadgets Used On Gir Lions To Track Big Cats In Mangroves

The forest department has decided to radio-collar ten tigers in the Sunderbans where population dynam ics of the big cats has al ways remained a mystery. And this time, an advanced set of radio collars, which helped scientists track tigers in Nepal and lions in Gir, will be used in the mangroves.

Does not bar any state or the Centre from continuing or launching other food-based schemes. The revised National Food Security Bill (NFSB) gives greater flexibility to states.

In what could be a slight setback to the government's programme to bring safe and adequate drinking water to all rural households, only around 67 per cent of the targets have been met under the Nat

Life in a slum is comparable to life in most urban households in India, according to Census 2011 data on living conditions in slums.