The National Green Tribunal will take up the final hearing in the case of the controversial Kanhar dam in Uttar Pradesh Wednesday.

The modification allows all operating mines to obtain clearance for entire forest area before January 31, 2016, extending the earlier deadline by a year

Nagpur: In a bid to simplify forest clearances to development projects, the ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) has constituted regional empowered committees (RECs).

Union Minister of Power & Coal Piyush Goyal has lauded the efforts of the state government in its efforts to further the power sector in the state particularly with reference to the activities

Union minister of state (independent charge) for environment, forests and climate change Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said his ministry has made clearances easy for industries.

With forest land in Salia Sahi hindering several developmental works, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to approach Forest Department to execute its projects in the Capital’s

NEW DELHI: 2014 saw India playing a crucial role in protecting the interests of developing nations at the UN climate talks in Lima where negotiators prepared a way for a new ambitious and binding d

KOLKATA: Union environment ministry has asked the coal ministry not to auction coal blocks in inviolate areas, a senior officer said here today.