There are serious apprehensions of illegal trade of animals, animal particles, including the high priced Shahtoosh shawls, and chances of fresh poaching in the region in wake of the recent Gazette of

On a public interest petition filed by Ravinder Singh Rana, an advocate of Punjab and Haryana High Court, seeking directions to provide citizens pure and pollution-free air which has been held to be

Faced with financial crisis, the Wildlife wing of the Forest Department has finally decided to close down at least five zoos and two pheasantries situated in various parts of Himachal

Tightening its noose over the timber mafia, the police arrested three persons and recovered 640 logs of walnut wood from their possession near Oachghat under sadar police station in the disrict last

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh said today that the government would launch a pilot project soon to control the population of monkeys and they would be sterilised.The male monekys

There is some thrilling news for migratory birds. They will soon get an alternative habitat at the Sultanpur National Park in Gurgaon, Haryana begining

In this season of rains, it's pouring diseases. And along with usual aspects like diarrhoea, malaria and cholera have come diseases like Hepatitis A and E. Unable to give exact figures, the doctors

The Haryana Government has decided to use solar photovoltaic technology in the state to run tubewells. The government has fixed a target to set up 500 such tubewells during the current financial year

The Himalayan Forest Research Institute dedicated to the cause of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, has conducted a survey of flora in the cold deserts and higher reaches falling in these

Five deaths due to a mysterious disease has been reported from village Araiyanwala near Faridkot, Punjab. According to the relatives of the deceased, the patients suddenly felt pain in the chest and