On December 20, Transport Minister Satyendar Jain had said the government needed more time to create awareness and prepare for the odd-even scheme. The odd-even scheme under the Supreme Court-mandated
According to scientists, the PM 2.5 concentration in Delhi on Sunday was 273 micrograms per cubic metre. As temperatures dipped on Sunday, air pollution levels refused to reduce even as wind speed remained
MUMBAI: While citizens woke to Christmas cheer on Sunday, the haze was a dampener as pollution levels touched the "very poor" mark. The System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) recorded
Almora: More than 100 half-burnt and fully burnt trees were allegedly cut in high-altitude villages of Gunji and Navi near Dharchula in Kumaon recently in contravention of rules, local villagers have alleged.
Bengal health department has decided to handle cases of Japanese Encephalitis (JE), a disease spread through mosquito bites, on an emergency war footing. Thus, the disease would be declared a notifiable
Soon villagers will be able to call central government's toll free number to complain or enquire about health facilities for mother and children in their vicinity. As part of its Integrated Child Development
The quarry and crusher units will stop operations indefinitely from Monday, said the office bearers of All Kerala Crusher & Quarry Co-Ordination Committee. The recent Supreme Court judgment has sounded
The burden of subsidising the power bills of agricultural and low-income families is set to move from industrial consumers to large domestic and commercial consumers of electricity. The government plans
The tourism dept wants to attract tourists coming for pilgrimage to the Girnar mountain.The tourism dept wants to attract tourists coming for pilgrimage to the Girnar mountain. AHMEDABAD: Tourists will
The DAMAN will continue for five years and will cost the government a total of Rs 120 crore. The government has already sanctioned Rs 10 crore to roll out the first stages of the programme. As many as
Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos have been evacuated as a powerful typhoon roars its way across the Philippines. Typhoon Nock-ten, known in the Philippines as typhoon Nina, was rated a category-3
The Baird government has approved the expansion of the most aggressive coal mine in the Special Areas of Greater Sydney's catchment despite not knowing the compounding impact it will have on water supplies.
India's civil nuclear liability law doesn't seem to stop haunting its atomic sector, with US major GE expressing concern over the absence of a "sustainable regulatory environment" and seeking more "clarity"
BEIJING - The average life expectancy for Chinese will reach 77 years by 2020, one year more than the figure in 2015, the health authority announced Friday. While introducing a health development plan
BEIJING - China will set up 126 monitoring sites nationwide to study the effect of air pollution on health. The National Health and Family Planning Commission has been researching correlations between
BEIJING - China's food safety system will soon cover almost all kinds of food and major hazard factors, according to a report released Friday. The report, on feedback to China's top legislature, said
A major 7.6 magnitude earthquake jolted southern Chile on Sunday, prompting thousands to evacuate coastal areas, but no fatalities or major damage were reported in the tourism and salmon farming region.
South Korea on Monday mobilized armed forces to play an active part in its biggest-ever poultry cull as the spread of a highly contagious strain bird flu continued, ordering that another 1.6 million birds
China has detained 11 people for dumping more than 2,900 tonnes of garbage into the Yangtze river in Jiangsu province, the official Xinhua news agency reported late on Sunday. The garbage was dumped
China's largely rubber-stamp parliament passed a law on Sunday that will levy specific environmental protection taxes on industry for the first time from 2018, as part of a renewed focus on fighting the
