India's push for manufacturing-led urbanisation aims to boost economic growth and living standards. The government has approved 12 new indu...

Indian cities, including Bengaluru, are facing grave water risk due to poor water management, water-illiterate residents, contaminated supp...

More than half of the buildings in Delhi have been built in an unplanned manner exposing the city to the threat of disasters like earthquak...

According to official data, nearly 1,900 people lost their lives and another 46 were reported missing this monsoon season in rains and floo...

First Secretary in India's Permanent Mission to the UN Paulomi Tripathi said at the 51st Session Commission on Population and Development t...

According to a statement issued by CSE ahead of World Water Day, the water table in Bengaluru has shrunk from 10-12 m to 76-91 m in just tw...

Ministers and officials from 68 countries of Asia Pacific region are participating in the three-day 'Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on...

WaterAid's Director of Programmes & Policy, Avinash Kumar, said India's rapid and unplanned urbanisation has resulted in various developmen...

The bench, referring to a full court judgement on the issue, in its order said what was classified as a water body area cannot be converted...

As a child growing up in Siwan, Bihar, Nishant Kumar couldn’t have missed all those birds around him even if he tried.

A fear of isolation has gripped large swathes of land in districts like Coochbehar, Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling with the water level in river...

With fast deteriorating air quality in big cities leading to tougher regulatory norms, the construction industry, along with the automobile...

It wasn’t just nature that was unkind to Chennai, human neglect also sank the city. But there are lessons to be learnt so that nature’s fur...

It said that Taj is changing colour due to deposition of dust and carbon containing particles emitted in the burning of fossil fuels, bioma...

Unprecedented rainfall, unplanned urbanisation and lack of preparedness are the basic reasons behind the floods which have devastated Jammu...

Urban Development minister Kamal Nath today said government was looking at Transit Oriented Development as an option.

Maharashtra may be the most urbanised state in India, but ironically, it lacks an urban development policy.