Sunday 8 November '09
In the biggest pan-India seizure since poacher Sansar Chand’s capture in 2005, the CBI and the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau on Thursday seized tiger skin, tiger bone, leopard and otter skins from Delhi and Nagpur....Thursday 5 November '09
It is hard to implement a policy which is good for both environment and economy. But Delhi has achieved just that.Wednesday
4 November '09Even as India and China — with their steady growth trajectories —are considered the new bad boys in carbon dioxide emissions, a new...Tuesday
3 November '09When hockey players congregate for the Commonwealth Games and the Men’s Hockey World Cup in 2010 at the Major Dhyanchand National Stadium, the 187 trees ‘headbacked’ to give the stadium a facelift will just be part of statistics.Monday
2 November '09Amongst shoes and bags at the popular Sreeleathers showroom in Kolkata’s Lindsay Street, there was another thing on display.Monday
2 November '09“Imperfect is good,” smiles Purab Kohli, actor, referring to his two dogs, Tony and Belle, first found in near-abandoned state in his Mumbai neighbourhood.Wednesday
28 October '09What goes in has to come out: With this maxim, small-time Tamil actor and entertainer Manoharan puts highly protected snakes in his mouth, their heads emerging through his nostrils. Then he eats them alive.Wednesday
28 October '09The government’s Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) has lodged a fresh FIR in the recent case of poisoning of stray dogs and birds in Nizamuddin East, claiming the incident is also a case of threat to public health.Tuesday
27 October '09While a flagship greening project for the Commonwealth Games — the manicured Commonwealth Games Park near Africa Avenue, will be boasting of exotic trees from Commonwealth countries, good old desi trees too are set to get a boost.Monday
26 October '09The Centrally Empowered Committee (CEC), the forest panel of the Supreme Court, has turned down a Commonwealth Games related proposal of the Public Works Department’s (PWD).Monday
26 October '09A day after India and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding on environment and climate change, including management of...Sunday
25 October '09India is set to develop ‘hybrid energy’ to cater to the needs of 30,000 people spread over a few islands in the Maldives....Friday
23 October '09Two days after a leopard made a ‘surprise visit’ to a farmhouse in Alipur, the elusive animal has reappeared.Thursday
22 October '09The Delhi Pollution Control Committee has asked for registration of all diesel generators in the city to curb noise pollution.Tuesday
20 October '09Considered one of the most vulnerable species to changes in climate, the butterfly population has been going down in the city. Now the NDMC wants to play saviour.Tuesday
20 October '09Sridutt Sharma, a resident of Germany, spent years looking for a tiger or a leopard in sanctuaries and tiger reserves across India, but in vain.Tuesday
20 October '09Marking a shift from its earlier position of staying within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Changes, India now appears...Saturday
17 October '09This Diwali, save a prayer for the Capital’s canine breed. Experts have said the booming noise from crackers make dogs go crazy; they drool and snap, and some even die of heart failure.Friday
16 October '09Wednesday
14 October '09A British import to India — the thorny vilayati or the ‘foreign’ kikar tree — has got the High Court’s nod to be removed from a biodiversity park as it impedes the growth of natural and native species of plants.Tuesday
13 October '09Taking the first decisive step towards reporting its carbon emissions — domestically and internationally — the Ministry of Environment and Forests is moving decks to create a network of scientists....Sunday
11 October '09Several students of Shri Ram School, Aravalli, Gurgaon, have contracted swine flu reportedly during a three-day school outstation trip, parents have alleged.Tuesday
6 October '09Even as Delhi government gets ready for a ‘green’ Commonwealth Games, more than 20,000 trees and saplings are set to be axed for a new power sub-station to be built by the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited in Ghummanhera in the West Forest division.Monday
5 October '09As India moves to create its own legislation on climate change, Delhi’s oldest science group, and Mumbai’s most prestigious social science institution, are coming together to create a change.Monday
5 October '09Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will chair the first meeting of the newly-constituted National Ganga River Basin Authority on Monday. On the discussion table will be a new concept....
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