The notification issued by the environment ministry says that the general approval to hold forest land will not automatically confer the right to mine it
The Ken-Betwa river interlinking project, which is the first such in the country, might miss its December deadline as it is unlikely to receive all the required environmental clearances by then.
A report published by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) on Thursday revealed a sharp 24 percentage points drop in the number of rural households using kerosene for lighting, and an equal inc