Hyderabad: The National Biodiversity Authority has demanded a five percent cut in the sales of red sanders carried out by the state government as per the access benefit sharing clause of the Biodiv

Hyderabad: Lack of adequate recycling capacity for electronic waste is costing the country several thousands crore of rupees each year.

The slum area, known as Bhagat Singh Colony, adjacent to the sixth lane of Dwarakanagar, is considered both a boon and a bane.

“Boon in the sense, a robber can never get away from here if at all he enters the colony. The slum-dwellers keep a close watch on the houses and they are awake till late in the night. We also enjoy their services in the form of domestic help and dhobi without any irregularities,” says Akella Venkata Purushotham, one of the old residents of the colony.

Unseasonal rains and hailstorm over the past few days have killed seven people and injured 58 others across the state.

At a time when Goa and some other states are locked in legal battles in the Supreme Court to reduce the buffer zone around reserved forests and eco-sensitive areas from 10 to one kilometres, Enviro

Water body adjacent to Botanical Garden being filled up, say environmentalists

The widening of the road adjacent to Botanical Garden at Kondapur has run into controversy with environmental groups questioning the filling up of what they claim was a water body, for the project.

The Godavari drinking water project, which aims to supply 172 million gallons per day (MGD) of water to the city, is in limbo with the government failing to give counter-guarantee for the Rs 2,000

Union minister Jairam Ramesh said the Seemandhra region would get funding to the tune of Rs 50,000 crore for overall development of the region as compensation for it losing revenue from Hyderabad.

More than 800 Olive Ridley turtles, which came to lay eggs on the beaches of Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, have died, it was reported on Tuesday.

N.V. Sivarama Prasad, District Forest Officer, Nellore, said such large-scale deaths of Olive Ridley turtles had not been reported from the Andhra Pradesh coast in the recent past. The deaths were caused mainly by the use of trawl nets by fishermen. Local fishermen used only gill nets, which did not pose a threat to the turtles.

The Centre has sanctioned Rs 1,050 crore under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) to the Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewage Board (HMWS&SB) to complete five projects.