The Rs 24,200-cr coastal project has run into trouble because of differing views on its threat to local ecology

The government's attempt at reviving investor interest in its flagship Ultra Mega Power Projects (UMPP) scheme after a four-year lull is headed south - quite literally. One of the two such newly-announced projects in Cheyyur village, 96 kilometre south of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, has been engulfed in a controversy spanning economic, social and ecological domains.

You don't have to be a smoker to get chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which causes severe breathing problems.

Delhi on Diwali is about as happy a city as any other metro but it is certainly the noisiest and smokiest.

Delhi at Diwali is about as happy a city as any other metro - but it is also the noisiest and smokiest.

The corporation has decided to move earth and water, literally, to make the city more livable.

Even as it pulled up the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) for not making appreciable progress after submitting a preliminary report on the oil pipeline leak in North Chennai, the National

The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Southern Bench, on Friday directed the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas to convene a meeting of secretaries of the ministries of Environment and Forest

In 2010 memorandum, Environment Ministry exempted projects that had made substantial progress from clearance obligation

The National Green Tribunal on Monday stayed the operation of an order of Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) exempting projects that have attained substantial progress from obtaining prior environmental clearance. The stay will have wider ramifications on those projects across the country.

Almost one-fifth of the centrally-funded sewage treatment plants in the country are "non-operational", leaving millions of liters of untreated water either sink into the ground as a potential pollu