The new policy initiatives of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests aim at improving the forest cover in such a way as to benefit all the stakeholders - the forest departments, local commun

The new policy initiatives of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests aim at improving the forest cover in such a way as to benefit all the stakeholders - the forest departments, local

The new policy initiatives of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests aim at improving the forest cover in such a way as to benefit all the stakeholders - forest departments, local communities

Non-governmental organisaitons in Orissa are up in arms against the government's moves to enact legislation that will ensure their accountability and transparency in their funding and a measure of

Apparently, in India the rights of people living in and around national parks and sanctuaries are ignored, while the rest of the world moves towards policies that reconcile wildlife conservation with

The ruling by the Madras High Court asking dyeing and bleaching units in Tirupur to install reverse osmosis plants for the secondary treatment of effluents causes consternation in the hosiery

Ten thousands of children die every year in Maharashtra, mostly in the tribal areas, because of malnutrition-related problems. The State government, relying on incomplete data collected by its

The Chilika lake continues to be the bone of contention between traditional and non-traditional fishermen, while the Orissa government sits over a Bill seeking to delineate the rights of the two

Thousands of slumdwellers hounded out by the Maharashtra government's demolition drive remain homeless in Mumbai. It has been six months since the Maharashtra government demolished more than 90,000

The draft Seeds Bill seeks to dilute all the safeguards provided by the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Right Act, 2001, to the farmer, whose existence is already