The uncertainty over the number of people gone missing in Uttarakhand's catastrophic flashfloods has at last come to an end with the state government releasing a final list of 4,120 persons, includ

Uttarakhand's famous Rajaji Park which recently got the status of a National Park is likely to become a tiger reserve in a month, a senior forest official said.

"With a long-pending notification giving it the status of a national park already issued, we are now focusing on getting the tiger reserve status for the park," Principal chief conservator of forest (wildlife) Savya Sachi Sharma said.

Citing extensive damage to infrastructure from the floods in June this year, Uttarakhand has urged the Central government to further relax green norms to allow it to divert, without prior clearance

Pre-fabricated house structures will be put in place at 19 locations in Uttarakhand before October 30 to rehabilitate those displaced in the catastrophic June flash floods, Chief Minister Vijay Bah

Slamming the Centre for not setting up expert committees for examining environmental impact of hydro-electric projects and construction works in Uttarakhand after the recent disaster in the state,

Half of judicial energy is spent on waking up the government, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) said on Monday, slamming the Centre for not setting up panels for examining the environmental impact

Leading the campaign, Dr Anil P Joshi, founder of the Dehradun-based NGO HESCO, called for a separate ministry at the centre on the Himalayan region

Environmentalists renewed their campaign against big dams on Monday and called for formulating a new sustainable developmental model for the entire Himalayan region in the wake of the June disaster in Uttarakhand that left hundreds of people dead and devastated scores of hydel projects.

A moderate intensity earthquake, measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale, shook Doda and Kishtwar districts of Jammu and Kashmir, but there were no reports of loss of life or damage to property.

A National Green Tribunal (NGT) judge on Thursday warned the Uttarakhand government to stop giving permission for sand mining after a resident claimed that the state is blatantly violating the cour

The order came on a petition filed by Khush Naseeb Khan who has alleged that large scale removal of sand from river beds is being carried out without any environment clearance

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today directed the Uttarakhand government not to issue any fresh permits for carrying out sand mining in the state on a plea alleging that such activities are going on in violation of its orders.