Addressing the workshop, he said there was a critical need for fundamental research on the physical processes that lead to failure of the b...

Climatic factors such as excessive precipitation and flow of water from mountains into massive cracks and fractures in the sub-surface rock...

The Pharmaceutical Technology Upgradation Assistance Scheme (PTUAS) would facilitate pharmaceutical MSMEs with proven track record to upgra...

The world's highest peak is now taller by 86 centimetres, Nepal and China jointly announced on Tuesday after they remeasured Mt. Everest at...

A comprehensive policy is in the pipeline to revive and rejuvenate large number of springs in the Himalayan region to make them perennial.

Human waste left behind by climbers is a major challenge on Mount Everest. A project is now trying to break the nasty stuff down to generat...

India has 17% of world’s population, but 4% of the its freshwater resources. With just 1,544 cu m per-capita water availability, it is alre...

Solan, Feb 23 (IANS) A research-based university near here in Himachal Pradesh is working for mountain people and its fragile biodiversity ...

"In Assam we have been able to reduce it to a large extent and in Bengal the issue is being studied and whatever remedies needs to be done,...

Since predicting earthquakes is nearly impossible, scientists try to study the past records to try decipher some clues for future forecasti...

The National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE) is one of the eight National missions which form the core of India’s fi...

According to a statement by Delhi government, Upadhyay also thanked the Chief Minister and people of the national capital for sending relie...

The weather hit tea sector is yet to have any positive hope form the policy makers on its long pending demand of coverage under under Agric...

The government also cleared a proposal to set up an institute on climate change studies in the name of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Nanda Devi Jaat Yatra, held after every 12 years in Uttarakhand, will not be postponed in wake of the recent tragedy.

Tiny Himalayan state Sikkim is the largest beneficiary of GoI’s adventure tourism promotion initiative. But the trade is at its infancy in ...

With its exotic locations Sikkim is going to be one of the largest beneficiaries of GoI’s ongoing initiative to promote ‘adventure tourism.’