The government had also acceded to the merging of leases in Zone I and Zone II mining as defined in the Saradha mining plan released last year for the purpose of creating one common mining plan.
KOLKATA: There has been an alarming rise in asthma and chronic bronchial complications in newborns in Kolkata with no history of these issues in their parents.
KOLKATA: In the last five years, 43 MPs from West Bengal, cutting across political parties, have asked barely 197 environment-related questions in the parliament.
PATNA: Political parties have set their agendas and are busy with electioneering with not even a week left for the first phase of Lok Sabha election on April 11.
Gurgaon: The Haryana government has missed another deadline to submit a report of the ground-truthing (ground verification) exercise to delineate areas falling under the Aravalis Natural Conservati
NEW DELHI: Asking the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to expand its noise monitoring mechanism beyond seven cities, the NGT has directed it to prepare 'noise pollution map' of the entire cou
The United States government has availed an additional US$2.5 million emergency relief to cater for the needs of survivors of the recent Cyclone Idai which killed over 300 people mostly in Manicala
The government has expressed its commitment to increasing funds for conducting research on water sources in the country with a view to supplying water to rural areas.
