Delhi and NCR are facing the strictest curbs under Stage IV of the Graded Response Action Plan as air quality worsened significantly. Autho...

Mumbai is implementing GRAP-4 restrictions as air quality worsens. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has halted construction and dust-...

China faces a soybean surplus after massive imports from South America. This glut reduces the need for U.S. soybean purchases, even with a ...

The Punjab Cabinet approved a new mechanism for distributing wheat flour at doorsteps by involving fair price shop owners. The wheat flour ...

In the next four years, the state government has proposed to recruit 7,200 constables and 1,200 sub-inspectors. A decision in this regard w...

At an emergency meeting on Saturday evening, the sub-committee of the commission noted that due to unfavourable meteorological conditions a...

GRAP is classified under four stages, depending on the air quality in Delhi. Stage I is implemented in case of 'poor' air quality (AQI 201-...

"Adherence to the environmental and pollution norms cannot be compromised for factual misunderstandings or due to cryptic determination. Or...

Private offices, including IT and ITES, can operate with upto 33 per cent strength in red zones including Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corpo...

Police said today that five gunmen with their faces covered came to the stone crusher unit in Namrup last night and started firing on the w...

The observation came after amicus curiae and senior advocate Harish Salve said there was a need to ensure 100 per cent compliance of Pollut...

The Jharkhand High Court has asked the Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JS-PCB) to submit a status report on the steps being taken ...

The reclusive Ponty Chadha,in a rare interview, says he is looking at controlling a cluster of 6-7 mills in the next couple of years.

The edible oil industry is urging a tightening of futures trading in oils and oilseeds.

With oilseed crushers feeling the pinch on their margin due to rise in oilseed prices, which, they feel, have been fuelled by speculations ...

The growing influence of Naxalites in the tribal dominated districts in Orissa over the last few years has taken a severe toll on health se...

TSL which is engaged in the business of material handling for the steel, power and cement sectors, will invest Rs 85 crore in 2006-07 for i...