Garden city could soon become concrete city. Bangalore has lost around 50,000 trees in recent years to infrastructure development and nearly 300 more will soon go for the Metro rail project.

Several non-government organisations (NGOs) in the capital have decided to stage a protest against what they alleged was a misleading campaign by the government that the Commonwealth Games2010 was going to be the first "Green Games" ever.
The protest will be staged on the occasion of a government function for planting trees on Delhi ridge.

The Delhi government's move to ban plastic bags in the national capital has got a major boost with a Delhi court slapping a fine of Rs 15,000 on a stationery trader for allegedly not obeying the law.

This is the first punitive action under the notification issued by the Delhi government early January this year.

Pune The Pune Municipal Corporation has promised to supply water to residents of Panchavati

NEW DELHI: Delhi Environment Secretary on Wednesday advised and directed all traders

KOCHI: As the Kochi Metro dream comes closer to reality, environmentalists in the city are in a celebratory mood as the multi-crore project will bring along with it a green cover management plan as part of the compensatory afforestation programme.

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Giving way: The trees which were removed on Swami Sivananda Salai.

CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation has started removing 261 trees on roads around the new Legislative Assembly Complex construction site. This is being done as part of the road widening project for better traffic management once the complex is completed.

As many as 279 trees face axe with the High Court on Monday giving green signal to proceed with

Chandigarh The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has decided to hand over the maintenance of seven green belts in different sectors to private contractors.

Tenders for green belts in sectors 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 7 and 17 have already been invited.

At present, the civic body maintains 49 green belts and 16 gardens.

NEW DELHI: The concerted campaign against use of firecrackers in the Capital produced mixed results this Diwali. While noise levels at some locations in the city was higher, the air pollution level was generally found to be lower compared with last Diwali owing to favourable meteorological conditions.