Non-government organisation Uday Foundation, which has sought a ban on the sale of junk food in school premises and within a 500-metre radius, on Wednesday questioned the logic of restricting the a

The Centre for Science and Environment Director-General, Sunita Narain, has demanded that all junk food be banned from unaided and private schools across the country.

An expert group, formed on Delhi High Court order to frame guidelines on junk food in schools, today alleged its report was diluted by the food safety body before it was submitted to the court.

Australia is a coal country. It is big business; miners are important in politics and black gold exports dominate the country's finances.

Though faced with hailstorms, wet and dry droughts, and other indicators of climate change making life miserable for people and farmers, the Maharashtra government has failed to give priority to th

More people die in road crashes in India than anywhere else in the world.

Every year, road accidents in India claim 1,42,485 lives. But there's something else that kills 6 times as many. Air pollution has become the 5th largest cause of death in India, with over 6,20,000 premature deaths. Globally, air pollution related deaths have increased 300%.

Water management is about society and its ability to build technologies to maximise the use of water and, more importantly, technologies to share water with all

March 22 is World Water Day. There is no doubt that water will determine whether India becomes wealthy or remains poor. But the management of water is not simply about building more dams or pipelines to take the water to our cities and then more pipelines to flush the waste from our homes.

As the world is already staring at impending water crisis due to climate change, population increase and pollution, a UN report has predicted that as many as 3.4 billion people will be living in "water-scarce" countries by 2025.

It also pointed out that the situation will be deteriorated further in the next 25 years (by 2050), culminating into instances of human conflicts in many parts of the globe.