The Lakshadweep administration on Saturday night started to dump 300 tonnes of damaged rice off Minicoy coast, without clearance from the Environment and Forest Ministry.

The city's fall from grace has been dramatic. Experts point to the decade immediately after the economic liberalisation, especially between 1997 and 2001, when the city lost up to 99 per cent of its green cover in some parts. The built-up area in the city nearly doubled in that short period, show remote sensing satellite images.

Imphal: The Loktak hydro-electric power project, commissioned three decades back, has reached electricity to thousands, but robbed thousand others of their livelihood.

PANJIM: Even as environmentalists in Goa desire that iron ore extraction should be kept to the minimum, Goa government’s mineral policy, which is in the draft stage, is moving in diametrically opposite direction by creating framework for attracting foreign capital investment in exploratory works in the mining sector.

‘Power plants destroy dense forest cover in mountain range’

PANJIM: State Mines and Geology department Tuesday began an inspection of various plots in the state which are being used to dump iron ore.

The officials swung into action after it was revealed that only 15 plots are registered with them while several hundred plots are increasingly used to stack ore, throwing environmental norms to the wind.

Environmentalists on Monday strongly objected to the proposed construction and change in zone of a plot of land on Vetal Tekdi during a hearing in the matter, being conducted by the town planning d

Alarmed over the threat to the historic Taj Mahal because of the drying of the Yamuna, a group of concerned citizens have asked for a White Paper on the river and its current state.

The proposed mfg policy seeks to create massive areas as national investment manufacturing zones and wants nothing of this inconvenient green stuff

There appears to be no end in sight for the pollution problems created by the textile processing and tannery units for the beleaguered farming community in Erode district.