Bay of Bengal

Opposition to the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill

Restore Ganga's original course: Patna HC

Between May and December 2014, 17 deaths were registered in Sambalpur due to jaundice but residents say that the death toll due to water-borne diseases is much more than that. In January 2015, the Odisha High Court issued a notice to the state government asking it to furnish details on the steps taken to check the Jaundice outbreak in Sambalpur. 

What is Jaundice?

Government bends its own guideline, fast-tracks green nod to Arunachal hydel project

Union Budget 2015-16 reduces funds for Water and Environment Ministry 

Mahananda, a major River of north Bihar rises in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal. It meets the Ganga after a journey of 376 km through the flat lands of Bihar, West Bengal and Bangladesh. It would spill its banks because of the flat slopes, causing deluge and waterlogging in the Katihar district of Bihar.

Centre presents an opposite picture in the Uttarakhand dam case

Goa relieved, as tribunal restrains work on Maharashtra's Virdi dam

8 million tonnes of plastic waste dumped into world's oceans in 2010: Study

Karnataka sets up firm to mitigate mining impacts