Bhubaneswar: The State Assembly Committee headed by the Speaker Pradip Kumar Amat is all set to ask the Odisha government to scrap the controversial Sindol hydro-power project for all time to come.

The Greenpeace fact finding report states that Singrauli is the ninth highest in the Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) amongst 88 highly polluted industrial blocks in the country.

When a cascading Kushabhadra river blasted its way through an embankment at Kushupur village on the night of September 10, Safran Bibi was tending to her 18 goats, her only asset.

At a time when the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) are known not to have the best of relations, the former has agreed to ha

The world's population will surge to seven billion next month and the challenge is not a lack of living space but how to empower disenfranchised women and girls, the United Nations said Tuesday.

PURULIA, 14 SEPT: Despite the Centre having introduced the Forest Rights Act in 2006 to distribute forest land to the tribals, the district administration here is yet to do so for most of the Kheri

Paper-II on Census 2011 released

SRINAGAR: As a large number of people have migrated to the urban areas during past three decades in Jammu and Kashmir, there has been sharp decline of 7 percent in rural population, according to the recently released census data.

TOI jury meets to choose between good and good

Srinagar: Even as a majority of the population of Jammu and Kashmir resides in villages, there is an increasing trend of urbanisation in the state, according to Census- 2011.

AGARTALA: Tripura’s current population stands at 36, 71,032, having registered a growth of 9.12 percent in urban population in 2011 compared with the preceding 2001 when the urban population stood