While many low-lying areas were submerged after the heavy showers on Monday, experts say the city would soon return to fighting with dry taps in all likelihood.

Reason: there is no provision to collect the rainwater in Yamuna, once Delhi

July 29: India has not capitulated or compromised its right to either social or economic development during the recent G-8 meeting in Italy.

Neither has it accepted any caps on the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG), Union minister for environment Jairam Ramesh told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday morning.

NEW DELHI: Forest preservation, curbing poachers and relocation of forest-dwellers were the three major challenges before the government, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here on Tuesday.

Opposition Leader Manohar Parrikar today criticized the Central Environment Ministry for granting mining licences without taking into consideration the report of the Goa State pollution Control Board.
Parrikar also demanded that Goa government should be benefited financially from the revenue earned by the mining industry.

THE government will introduce a draft legislation in Parliament on Thursday to set up a National Green Tribunal (NGT) for deciding civil matters related to the environment, minister for environment and forest Jairam Ramesh said.

Of the 37 tiger reserves in the country, there is no information available on the number of tigers

Communist Party of India MP D. Raja has criticised the Union Environment and Forests Ministry for the manner in which it had bypassed Parliament, ignoring the Standing Committee recommendations on the Compensatory Afforestation Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) funds.

Corporates pledge to reduce carbon emissions
Vibha Sharma
The research organisation, International Data Corporation

Recently, the government launched the vastly-improved version of the ministry of environment and forests' Website www.envfor.nic.in, making it accessible and user-friendly through an easy-to-navigate interface. The major focus of the new-look site is to enhance clarity and transparency of the environmental and forestry clearance processes.

The Centre has frozen six mega hydel power projects with a capacity of 1,047 MW proposed in North Sikkim following an adverse report submitted by Centre of Inter-Disciplinary Studies of Mountains and Hill Environment (CISME).

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) had taken the CISME report seriously and derailed the six proposed hydel power projects in North Sikkim, it is learnt.