After a brief respite with relatively clean air over the last two days, city's air quality slipped to "very poor" zone on Monday. Despite favourable weather conditions such as wind speed, temperatures ...

Hundreds of activists under the banner of the Agami Odisha on Tuesday began a satyagraha at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to pressurise the Central Government to solve the Mahanadi water sharing dispute ...

According to the Central Pollution Control Board, average Air Quality Index (AQI) in Delhi-NCR at 5 p.m. on Sunday was 292 compared with 298 on Saturday, both considered "poor". Even as the air qualit ...

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government unveiled a plan on Thursday to kick off its ambitious bid to become a plastic-free state from March next year. "There are six states in the country that have achieve ...

NEW DELHI: Seeking to have uniform regulatory framework on groundwater use across the country, the Centre has come out with a draft guidelines which stipulate existing and new industries, infrastructu ...

NEW DELHI: Water bodies have decreased by a steep 40% in the national capital region (NCR) as a result of rapid urbanisation between 1972 and 2014, when the region saw a 17-fold rise in urban built-up ...

NEW DEHI The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has shut down two of its water treatment plants (WTP) — Sonia Vihar and Bhagirathi, disrupting water supply in east and south Delhi for two days. The situation is li ...

In a hearing on an ongoing case in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) based on prevention and abolition of crop burning, a principal bench of the Tribunal headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar has asked al ...

NEW DELHI: Seeking to protect over 2 lakh wetlands across the country, the Centre has come out with rules to identify and manage these ecologically fragile areas which play an important role in flood ...