The apex court was hearing the appeal filed by Odisha government against the September 18, 2020 order of the NGT contending that it has err...

Specialists who have been observing Sunderbans’ ecology wondered whether it was possible to plant five crore or even more saplings in this ...

The report of the committee constituted for Formulation of Strategy for Flood Management Works in Entire Country and River Management Activ...

E-challan facility will allow motorists to pay their traffic challans instantly using debit or credit card and internet banking through han...

More than 200 people have died & lakhs have been evacuated amid unusually heavy rains this month.

Environmentalists point out that the dam poses a major threat during floods and could inundate over 400 villages upstream of the Godavari.

A person belonging to a Scheduled Tribe can claim individual rights to live in and cultivate up to four hectares, provided she occupied it ...

Sonowal said the committee, to be constituted comprising engineers, experts, NGOs, would help avert breaches in embankment with timely inte...

The signs are already there. In recent monsoon seasons, many areas in southeast Delhi have seen basements of buildings getting submerged un...

Six years after cyclone Aila, the existential threat faced by the people and fauna in one of the world’s largest mangroves has reached alar...

India and Nepal have agreed to strengthen the embankments of Bagmati, Kamla, Lalbakeya and Khando rivers to control the spilling of flood w...

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has reached out to Chief Ministers of Orissa and Chhattisgarh to break the logjam on the Polavaram proje...

A blame game after unprecedented floods in Bihar came to fore with state govt being accused by the Centre of not sending a scheme for works...

Bangladesh and India would hold four-day talks in New Delhi next month to finalise recommendations to strike an interim deal on sharing of ...