New Delhi: The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and the Tamil Nadu Forest Department, working with Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), on Sunday seized skins of a tiger and a leopard in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu. While one tiger was found dead in Pilibhit and another in Ranthambhore on April 4, a two-year-old tiger cub was found dead in Chandrapur near Tadoba tiger reserve, Maharashtra, on Monday.

As a part of national environment awareness campaign, a lecture-cum-workshop on,

Latha Jishnu / New Delhi April 4, 2009, 0:04 IST

Since 2006, procedures for assessing environmental damage have been watered down to an alarming degree.

DR MANMOHAN Singh is an honourable man. He is soft-spoken, decent and, unlike most Indian politicians, he did not seek high office to line his pockets with ill-gotten wealth. For that alone, we in India, who continue to suffer consistently at the hands of dark politicians who steal from us, should be eternally grateful.

BHUBANESWAR: As the rapid industrialisation process needs more and more mining activities, here is a warning from an eminent environmentalist. If we indiscriminately resort to mining without restraint, then perhaps there will be imbalance in nature and with the industrial pollution adding to it, might contribute towards more climate change factors.