The Government of India launched the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) in April 2009 by modifying the Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (ARWSP) and subsuming earlier sub-mission/schemes.
<p>Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Sampurna Behrua Vs Union of India & Others dated 07/08/2018 regarding state of children in protection homes in India.</p> <p>Supreme Court emphasised
The Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests submitted its report on ‘Air Pollution in Delhi and National Capital Region’ on August 7, 2018. Key findings and recommendations
Right in time for World Tiger Day on July 29, chief minister Manohar Parrikar confirmed the presence of India’s national animal in the jungles of the state. Responding to his BJP colleague Rajesh Patnekar
GURUGRAM: The city, which has been NCR’s most polluted for the past three days, was on Sunday declared the most polluted among 62 cities in the country surveyed by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB),
Pune: Bioenergy scientists from Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) have discovered a method to reduce the impact of stubble burning, which is the main cause of air pollution in New Delhi. Stubble burning
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu will inaugurate the world's first-ever thermal battery facility. The world’s first-ever facility to create thermal batteries will be inaugurated tomorrow
As many as 5,000 households in Sirsa, Fatehabad, Hisar and Bhiwani, considered to be affluent districts of Haryana, are still without electricity in this era of technology. These are besides 14,000
Chandigarh: Dr Ram Kumar, convener, Society for Promotion of Ethical & Affordable Healthcare on Saturday said the budgetary allocation to health sector is not only less, but it is also not steered towards
JAIPUR: The state government has issued orders for observing every Sunday as ‘dry day’. Relax, beer guzzlers, wine lovers and regular tipplers, the order is not related to booze. Health department will
Thoothukudi is termed one of the Non-attainment cities by Ministry of Environment primarily on the basis of excess PM10 under the National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Program. CHENNAI:Thoothukudi
Asks Central Pollution Control Board to get expert opinion The National Green Tribunal has granted an interim injunction restraining Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) from upscaling the mercury remediation
Safeguard duty on solar panels from China, Malaysia not only offers little to domestic makers, but may also hurt existing projects While the government’s decision to impose a safeguard duty on the import
NEW DELHI: Delhi government has advised private hospitals and nursing homes to increase their capacity by up to 20% of the approved bed strength in view of increasing dengue, malaria and chikungunya cases.
In February, artist Avril Stormy Unger spent 10 hours each day for five days on Old Madras Road, sitting with wilted flowers and an anti-pollution mask, on an over-sized chair, next to an air quality index
The office-bearers and activists of various units associated with the Rotary District 3090 will launch a coordinated movement against the degradation of environment due to irrational use of plastics.
PATIALA: Having remained in the line of fire of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) over its failure to check air quality and then being in a peculiar situation following the Gurdaspur sugar mill molasses
Jaisalmer: The hub of a windmill suddenly fell down, along with its blades and broke into pieces, in Badabagh area in Jaisalmer, on Saturday. A big accident was averted as there was no one around, at the
Obesity prevalence in women is between 22.8% and 34.8% while it is 23.4% in men. Hyderabad: Institutional studies carried out in south India have registered that overall cases of obesity and its prevalence
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has begun a marathon exercise across Tamil Nadu to sensitise farmers on climate change and need to focus on water conservation. Organising
