Ecology and Environment

No approval of dams until e-flow report is out: Water Ministry to CWC

This year, the categories have been modified to align them with the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, and the new categories are as follows:

Sunderbans and Siachen glacier proposed to be recognised as a trans-boundary protected area

‘Kitna shaant hai ye paani, aur iske liye yeh rajniti’ (the water is so still, yet there is politics around it).

It's been more than 15 days and the drinking water crisis in Talabeda village in Sambalpur, Odisha is yet to be addressed. The water supply system of the village collapsed due to a fault in the transformer located within the premises of the Talabeda pump house, and no one has the time to fix this and restart the water supply system. 

Centre approves bringing down protected zone around Okhla Bird Sanctuary from 10 km to 1

Ganga clean-up takes its inspiration from the Rhine river

Amanishah nallah flowing through Sanganer, a town located 15 kms from Jaipur, is getting murkier by the day as the the textile hand printing industry in the area is getting more prosperous.

With more than 8360 tons of trash created daily in Delhi, the city has three trash pile sites at Bhalaswa, Ghazipur and Okhla. In these sites technically known as landfills, garbage is buried between layers of earth to build up low-lying lands.

This I-Day new name given to the Agriculture Ministry and the Swachh Vidyalaya mission accomplished