Once a beautiful water body that attracted scores of visitors, Badkhal Lake is now only a piece of dry land, dependent completely on rainwater.Dry and dirty - the Capital's water bodies are dying.

Education was given short shrift in the Budget with barely 17% increase in allocation that is likely to leave flagship programmes like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and mid-day meal scheme bereft of

New Delhi: For connoisseurs of history, the 2013-14 Budget paves the way for a new era of heritage conservation.

Barapullah and Supplementary drains were to be cleaned by the method, no formal proposal yet.

The single biggest challenge facing the conservation of world heritage is climate change, as it threatens the culture and way of life for many countries, International National Trusts Organization (INTO) chairman Simon Molesworth said.

The river Yamuna, having been declared dead with its water all poisonous from 22 drains from all over Delhi feeding 800 million gallons of sewage into it per day, can kill a healthy human being.

New Delhi: Yamuna Satyagraha would have completed two years of its protests against construction on the riverbed. After the SC judgment on Thursday, the events were cancelled. Environmentalists were left aghast at the court

INTACH on Friday organised a half-day consultation of experts on the need to give special attention to the tree wealth of the city, with special reference to heritage trees.

New Delhi: The country

June 24: Delhi will soon have its state bird, animal, tree and flower. The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (Intach), on the directions of the Delhi government, is working on the selection of species for making it a state symbol.

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