NAINITAL: Raging forest fires in Uttarakhand could have a devastating effect on the state's glaciers which are the lifeline of the major rivers flowing through India's northern plains.

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

A number of theories are circulating on what would have caused such gargantuan fires in Uttarakhand, reportedly the worst the state has seen in recent times.

Nainital-based veteran photographer Anup Sah, whose pictures of blazing forests in Kumaon have gone viral on social media, has said that a number of factors, including climate change and official a

In an attempt to improve the riverine ecosystem of the Ganga, the union ministry of Ganga Rejuvenation has entrusted a pilot project to the Wildlife Institute of India to work towards the restorati

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand governor K K Paul on Thursday directed district administration to take strict measures against those involved in illegal felling of trees and forest fires in the hill state be

NAINITAL: Not only the plains of north and western India, but several parts of hill state Uttarakhand are also staring at the water shortage with the onset of summer.

The National Mission on Himalayan Studies (NMHS), G. B.

In a bid to curb the problem of unwanted pregnancy, health and family welfare department of Uttarakhand has decided to administer free of cost Contraceptive Injections to the women across all the g