The environment ministry’s expert appraisal committee (EAC), scheduled to meet on Friday to conduct a feasibility study on allowing a second airport at Navi Mumbai, will have to do some tight rope wal

Major changes on the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (CLND) Bill 2010 including trebling compensation and the extension of liability to private firms should see the opening up of Indian $150 billion nuclear power market as also pave the way for an early enactment in both Houses of Parliament.

Fourteen elephants have died at the hands of poachers at the Simlipal National Park tiger reserve in Orissa’s Mayurbhanj district. A fact-finding team which visited the reserve blame the field staff at the reserve for burning the elephant carcasses to destroy evidence.

National Tiger Conservation Authority director Rajesh Gopal confirmed that he has asked the Centre for a special deployment of about 100 CRPF personnel to help comb the forests of the Simlipal National Park tiger reserve.

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh and the Director General of Shipping have initiated probes into the oil spill that took place when two Panamanian merchant ships collided off the Mumbai coast result

For long, news of trouble in Kashmir brought up images of Kalashnikov-wielding terrorists and ideologues of jihad against India
sneaking in from Pakistan giving the Indian Army a bloody nose, in response to which the latter would strike back in search and cordon operations with all the attendant blowback — collateral, both human and material. Kashmiri women, and especially children, were never the face of the terrorist or the insurgent-separatist. This time, though, it is different.

The Planning Commission has finalised a Rs 13,742 crores Integrated Action Plan (IAP) that will act as a catalyst for development in 60 Naxalite-affected districts spread across Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa.

The ministry of environment and forests has set up a Tiger Conservation Fund to benefit local communities living in the forest reserves. A fund of Rs 900 crores will be transferred yearly to states in which the 39 tiger reserves are located to be used for livelihood activities.

The ministry of mining and the ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) have received over 20,000 cases of illegal mining during the last two months. These complaints have been received at the state and national level, many of them having been filed at groups of villagers, NGOs and rival mining groups complaining against business

Should young children be allowed to form part of the crowds of stone pelters venting their anger and smashing property? In a large number of these protests, fathers were seen carrying their sons, some even toddlers, on their shoulders, as they braced themselves to face the bullets of the security forces.