Organisers enlighten people on the need for protecting the Ghats

The environment ministry in 2018 finalised a nationwide plan to curb air pollution, notified new rules governing India's coastlines and proposed prohibition of use of animals in circuses besides en

Over 56,000 kilometres of ecologically sensitive areas (ESA) in the Western Ghats could not be earmarked as ‘no-go’ zones due to State governments’ ‘insensitivity’, a parliamentary committee has sa

Kurangani fire, Thoothukudi police firing and Chennai-Salem corridor project expose policy deficit

In a big blow to the country's top aluminium rolling private sector firm Hindalco, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered shutdown two of the company's bauxite ore mining units in Maharashtra as it

The ministry prepared its notification after coming under fire from the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for not finalising the ESA in the region.

GURUGRAM: Nearly an acre of land has been stripped of its green cover while work is on to flatten the plot that falls in the ecologically sensitive Aravalis off the Southern Peripheral Road (SPR),

With Karnataka rejecting the draft notification, the Centre had asked the state to form a state-level committee to readdress the issue.

When it receives petitions about violation of environmental laws such as illegal construction in eco-sensitive area.