Several houses were buried under debris following a cloudburst near the Barsali forests of Karnaprayag in Chamoli district early this morning.

NGO Amritsar Vikas Manch (AVM) has requested the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak committee (SGPC) to utilise its gurdwaras in the rural areas to mobilise opinion against wheat stubble burning.

The evaluation of loss of forest wealth in Uttarakhand due to forest fires continues to be a tedious affair.

'Auto industry underplaying the toxic and cancer effects of diesel emissions’

The state government’s plan to develop the cold desert of Spiti as a 1,000 mw solar energy hub by 2022 has been shelved by the Centre until it sets up the load dispatch station in upper Kinnaur to

BAN ON POLYTHENE BAGS AND PLASTIC

Three nabbed for causing fires that devastated 3,185 hectares in Kumaon and Garhwal

As testimonies of farmers’ distress from drought-hit regions of Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telengana and Rajasthan were unfolded in the national Capital on Sunday, ex

Uttarakhand forest fires are a man-made disaster, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday as the National Disaster Response Force claimed that the inferno had gone out in more than 70

While environmentalists and activists are largely blaming the timber and land mafia for raging “manmade” forest fires in Uttarakhand and now Himachal Pradesh, they also fault the poor management of