The city of Hyderabad has over-exploited its groundwater resources to such an extent that experts from the ground water department have warned the state authorities of an imminent water crisis in the city.

In fact, the water level has taken a nose dive of approximately four metres (3.88 metres) since last year.

Environment and Forest Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday said effective policy and planning should be adopted immediately to check unplanned urbanisation of the country particularly for Dhaka city

Chandigarh: The Tatas today defended its ambitious plans of raising skyscrapers in the vicinity of Chandigarh by claiming the project neither obstructed the view of the Shivaliks, nor was it in the

New Delhi: Chief minister Sheila Dikshit slammed the-Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Thursday by calling it a “closed system” and an “elephant” that cannot match the pace at which the capital

Renewing its commitment to the strategic Jammu-Baramulla rail link in Jammu and Kashmir, the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure on Wednesday approved additional Rs19,000 crore toward completion of

The growing need for land for industrial and residential purposes has resulted in lands under agriculture shrinking by 10 to 15 per cent per annum in Coimbatore, Erode and Tirupur districts.

Top officials in the Agriculture Department, pointing out to the statistics discussed by the State Planning Commission at its recent meetings, say that in these districts, the total extent of land under agriculture has come down by 1.50 lakh hectares over the last three years.

Over a dozen housing societies, including the military-run Defence Housing Authority (DHA), are in trouble with the Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) for brazenly violating the envir