NEW DELHI: With winter having set in, migratory birds are flocking to the capital in large numbers. Their favouritehaunts are the Yamuna floodplain and other waterbodies in the city. A number of rare ...

By PTI: The objective set out by the Ministry of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences is to map the biogeochemical features of India's waters. This will also help estimate damage being caused to ...

New Delhi: Centre's ambitious `Namami Gange' programme will complete two years next month, but it has not yet picked up the desired pace on the ground with only 13 of the 145 sanctioned projects havin ...

By HARI PULAKKAT, ET Bureau | Apr 02, 2017, 11.34 AM IST As a ground water hydrologist, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) professor Sekhar Muddu had not paid sufficient attention to measurements of e ...

India slipped down one place from 130 to 131 among the 188 countries ranked in terms of human development, says the 2016 Human Development Report (HDR) released by the United Nations Development Progr ...