The energy audit of North Indian tea factories will begin shortly, according to Mr M.G.V.K. Bhanu, Chairman of the Tea Board of India.

The growing numbers of unplanned brick kilns have been posing environmental threat to agriculture and biodiversity in the country’s northern region, according to experts and farmers.

The Asia-Pacific region has made great strides in reducing poverty and is moving fast towards other development goals, but levels of hunger, and child and maternal mortality are still high, accordi

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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report on Millennium Development Goals (MDG) on Friday came in for sharp criticism from Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh for having inc

Low-cost solar panels and solar batteries will be provided to poor communities in 14 countries in Africa and Asia in the next four years, the UN Development Programme said Thursday.

Degraded bamboo forests in 7,800 hectare area were upgraded by 789 beneficiary families during the year 2011 under land erosion prevention project being implemented in the State with the cooperatio

The Upper Kotmale Hydropower Plant (UKHP) will go down in the history of Sri Lanka as one of the most time consuming power projects to be ever completed.

The Ministry of Housing and Environment and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has signed a project today to invest USD 8.5 million, towards an initiative that will bring fresh water t