The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
NEW DELHI: Days after Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh spoke against the ban on plastic bags, the Delhi Government has taken a strong stand supporting the ban and has decided to intensify its drive to
A three-member team from the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on Friday visited the park in neighbouring Noida where statues of Mayawati and other Dalit leaders will be coming up The team would present its report to the ministry on the environmental impact the construction activity in the park …
GANGTOK, July 9: The Affected Citizens of Teesta (ACT) - an apolitical forum spearheading agitation against hydel projects in Sikkim - has written to Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh for not granting environment clearance to hydel projects located around the
NEW DELHI: The Union Environment and Forest Ministry has launched a new scheme for Accelerated Programme of Restoration and Regeneration of Forest Cover. Announcing this here on Thursday, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said the scheme was announced in the Budget proposals for 2009-10 with an …
Union Minister for Environment Jairam Ramesh will visit Goa July-end regarding CRZ issue. According to information received here, Ramesh will visit Goa as part of his tour to coastal states affected by CRZ regulations. Sources said during his tour to Goa, he may try to get first hand information by …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests will consider providing subsidies to biodegradable plastic bag manufacturers in light of the ban on plastic bags in Delhi. Speaking to Newsline on Thursday, Jairam Ramesh, Minister for Environment and Forests, reiterated the stand he made in Parliament yesterday
If not Iranian, then it's got to be African cheetahs. The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) is presently working on getting wild Namibian cheetahs to India to repopulate Indian forests with the cheetah, which went extinct from India since 1967. The Namibian plan comes after Iran turned down a …
Pushing Paper Bags Will Only Lead To More Cutting Of Trees, Says Minister TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The government made it clear that it is not in favour of a blanket ban on using plastic bags while it is working on use of biodegradable plastic as colouring elements like …
July 8: Union minister of state for environment Jairam Ramesh has said that there is nothing wrong with the use of plastic bags. However, he has qualified it by also stating that it is the use of recycled plastic and coloured plastic which is dangerous. Further, he has said that …
New Delhi: In what seems an ambitious plan, the government hopes to restore the cheetah, believed to have been extinct in India since the late 1940s, by importing the swiftest of the big cats and eventually releasing it into the wild. Environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh told Rajya Sabha …
Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday finally confirmed what was first reported by The Indian Express that there are no tigers left in the Panna tiger reserve and that they have been poached. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, Ramesh said tigers in India were facing various threats, …
