Since 2009, when a campaigning Rahul Gandhi sold Jaipur a “world-class city” dream, residents had been under the impression that such a city had almost arrived.

The Government of India is in the process of setting up a National Bureau of Water Use Efficiency.

GUWAHATI, Aug 27 – An elephant calf injured in man-elephant conflict, a rhino orphaned by poachers, a full-grown tiger in a well, or a leopard in a house!

Pune : After reserving its comments on the report for a year, the Ministry of Environment and Forests has constituted a High Level Working Group to review the recommendations of the Western Ghats E

Gadgil says it’s premature to evaluate report

A working group headed by Planning Commission member K. Kasturirangan will assess the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) report and submit an action plan for its “effective implementation” to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). The Ministry has asked the group to evaluate the report of the Madhav Gadgil panel in a “holistic and multidisciplinary fashion in the light of the comments” received from various stakeholders, including State governments and Central Ministries.

Royal Bengal tigers have been under threat from habitat destruction, illegal trade for body parts, natural calamities and angry villagers, but their cubs are now facing a new danger -- poachers.

State delegation will soon meet Jayanthi Natarajan: Yogeshwar

Much against the wishes of the Karnataka State government, Union Minister for Environment and Forests (MoEF) Jayanthi Natarajan on Tuesday announced in Parliament that final approval had been accorded to declare Kudremukh National Park as a tiger reserve. The State government is against declaration of the Kuderamukh National Park as a tiger reserve, and heritage tag accorded to 10 sites of the Western Ghats. With the Union government’s final approval, the Kudremukh National Park has become the fifth tiger reserve in Karnataka and 41st in the country.

Second new bird to be found in Indian territory this year

A group of scientists from the Zoological Survey of India have discovered a new species of bird. The bird, called Rallina, otherwise known as the ‘Great Nicobar Crake’, is found in the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve. Scientists said that the bird was unknown before. It was found while cataloguing local fauna and animal-life in the reserve, under the man and biosphere programme of Unesco, sponsored by Ministry of Environment and Forests.

SHIMLA, 4 AUG: The Indian Railways propose to launch a “green initiative” in several trains in the country, if the recent experiment of introducing coaches “operating on solar based power system” i

Save natural resourses to next generation, suggests Suresh Heblikar

The rich natural resources available in the Western Ghats belt in the State could be preserved with the help of UNESCO heritage tag to the ghats, opined environmentalist Suresh Heblikar. Addressing media persons, in the town on Thursday after participating in an interaction programme on the environment and UNESCO tag, he said that UNESCO tag is important to preserve the rivers, water, food, minerals, timber and other natural resources in the ghat area and save it for the future generation. In the absence of the tag, the river sources would diminish and rivers would dry up.