The Supreme Court directed the Dredging Corporation of India to take immediate action to remove oil from an Ukraine ship harboured at Kakinada port to avoid oil-spill in the coast. Around two years

The International Decade of Natural Disaster Resistance (IDNDR) conference will be held in Geneva in July next year, where, according to an official release, "early warning issues will be scrutinised

No respite is in sight for village downstream of river Krishna as heavy rains continue to lash Andhra Pradesh and fill up reservoirs. Already 60,000 people in Krishna, Guntur and Nalgonda districts

The Environment Agency plans to find out how badly contaminated the Japan's wildlife has become from hormone disrupting pollution, agency officials said Thursday. The officials said the agency plans

The New Delhi Municipal Council will launch a special santiation drive in its areas from October will be on the removal of garbage, malba, horticultural waste, wild vegetation, desilting of sewer

After years of suffering the ill effects of air pollution from the Mae Moh power plant in Thailand, over 3,000 people are expected to be relocated from smog-shrouded villages. A tripartite meeting

To ensure public safety and prevent noise pollution, the Bangalore police has banned the sale and use of certain types of fire-crackers from October 15 to 23, and also prohibited bursting of crackers

The plastic manufacturing industry has protested against the recent report made by a two member Maharasthra government committee on the manufacture and use of plastic in the city. The committee had

Monkeys and garbage apprently go togother . Employees of the Shimla Municipal Corporation have learnt this hard fact after all attempts to keep this tourist resort failed. To ensure cleanliness in

The flood situation in rain-ravaged Gulbarga district in Karnataka worsened with flood waters surrounding nearly 10 villages on the banks of the Bhima and the Bennethora. Other rivers in the district