Tourists might complain of poor sighting of wildlife inside Manas National Park, but now an ambitious endeavour is bringing to life new facets of the park, which are far easily discernible.

Mumbai: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), in a serious bid to re-assess the entire ambit of environmental governance, has proposed establishment of National Environment Protection Authority (Nepa). Nepa

New Delhi: The environment and forest ministry

A division bench of the Bombay High Court at Goa has slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on Secretary for Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India for not filing an affidavit as directed by the High Court in a petition on forest protection pending before it.

New Delhi: The PMO is considering a concept note to create a National Climate Change Mitigation Authority that would oversee an act that sets up aspirational climate-related targets for the country to achieve by 2020. The move will help ward off the charge that India is obstructionist on climate change.

Cheetah, the long-legged spotted cat now extinct in India, can be

Shimla: The National Wildlife Board has agreed to exclude 767 villages from the jurisdiction of various wildlife sanctuaries in Himachal Pradesh.

Stating this here today, Forest Minister JP Nadda informed that it was at a meeting chaired by Union Minister Jairam Ramesh at New Delhi yesterday that a decision in this regard was taken.

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In 1979, the possibility of building a new dam was checked and rejected, due to geological factors

New Delhi: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday revealed the blueprint for a new authority to regulate all environmental norms and regulations just like the US

Recognising that the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and state pollution control boards are not working to their optimum level, a draft proposal for creating an Environment Protection Authority (EPA) by the Environment and Forests Ministry was made public on Thursday.