DEHRADUN: With 750 biodiversity management committees (BMC) at the gram panchayat level, Uttarakhand emerged as a pioneer among Himalayan states in effective implementation of the Biological Divers

HALDWANI/NAINITAL: Elaborate efforts to revive the Naini lake with the help of artificial oxygen supply and advanced biological technology may soon grind to a halt due to the shortage of funds and

Thirty-one government schools in Bageshwar district have failed to construct toilets for their students despite a 2012 Supreme Court order instructing all state-run schools to build toilets within

At least seven permissions for sand mining, many of them given last year, were found to be in violation of norms laid down by the Union ministry of environment and forests.

Bageshwar town, the headquarters of Bageshwar district, has no sewers.

After being pulled up by the Uttarakhand high court for not implementing central government orders on sand mining, the state government on Thursday assured the court that it will enforce all regula

HALDWANI: Udham Singh Nagar administration plans to install an advanced garbage treatment plant in Rudrapur in collaboration with a Delhi-based private firm.

Haldwani: In an attempt to check and prevent illegal sand mining in the city, the revenue and mining departments last week cracked whip on a stone crusher firm and slapped a penalty of Rs 20 lakh.

The four-year wait for the implementation of the Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) project for Corbett Tiger Reserve is getting further delayed as the state forest department is not in complete

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand government's special mining vigilance force (SMVF), constituted last December, has come down hard on illegal mining in the state's ecologically sensitive zones.