Eight persons, including three women, were washed away in a cloudburst over the Damar villager in Kulu district today. Reports said that in another incident, one person was killed in landslides in

In order to keep the sacred Brahama Sarovar and the Sannehit Sarovar pollution free, the Kurukshetra Development Board has deployed a team of five scientists to take sample of water during the

As many as 55 industrial units in Andhra Pradesh have been charged with discharging toxic effluents in rivers. Of them, 16 have put up the effluent treatment facilities and 28 are defaulters, Central

One of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken to stop Venice from flooding scrapped by the Italian government, triggering a political row over whether the city was being left to the mercy of the

Despite a Supreme Court order followed by a notification from the Union ministry of environment and forests, directing the state governments and hospitals to create an effective hospital waste

To commemorate the Bhopal gas tragedy of December 3, 1984 a week long observation, starting from December 2 to 9, concluded in BHEL on

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has recently issued a show cause notice to the Tata Power Company Ltd. for alleged violation of environmental norms at the company's Trombay generating

A European Commission on decision to clamp down on the use of old, noisy aircraft inside European Union airspace is set to provoke a trade dispute with the US. The commission, with the unanimous

The green bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday sought suggestions from National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) on the various minimum steps that Sterlite Industries Ltd.

A plan to use flood barriers like those on the Thames below London to save Venice from flooding is likely to be abandoned this week because critics say it will harm the environment. The pound 1.5