The Maharashtra Government has received Rs 489 crore to improve the rural road network under the Prime Minister’s Gram Sadak Yojana–II .

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has constituted a six-member committee to review the proposal of the Assam Government on safeguarding wildlife in relation with the National Highway-3

Lack of parking space in the Federal Capital forced people to turn green belts into illegal parking lots.

The portion of arable land in the country has shrunk by 6.6 per cent in the last one decade as agricultural fields turned into concrete jungle, shows a latest report of the Central Bureau of Statis

The use of "green buildings" has increasingly formed a key part of efforts by large firms to improve their corporate image and show their corporate social responsibility (CSR), resulting in more an

China's arable land amounted to 2.03 billion mu (135.4 million hectares) at the end of 2012, 227 million mu more than the bottom line set by the government to ensure food security, according to the

Maharashtra has lost a staggering 2,116 sq km of forest area or an equivalent of three Tadoba forest reserves in the span of two decades, reveals a report tracking climate change in India released

Gujarat accounts for 9% of all slums in urban areas across the country, findings related to key indicators of urban slums released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) on Tuesday show.

Pune: The number of dengue cases surged in 2013 in the state, but there were fewer deaths compared to last year.

This fifth all-India survey of NSSO on urban slums in the country consists of information relating to July to December 2012 on key characteristics of slums such as number of slums, approximate number of households living in the slums, proportion of slums without electricity, etc.

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