New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- An area of 130 hectares (ha) falling within a tribal reserve will be diverted for the Great Nicobar Trunk Infrastructure Road project, the Union environment ministry has informed ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- The series of suspected cloudbursts that hit three locations near Harsil, a village between Uttarkashi and Gagotri in Uttarakhand, was triggered by the monsoon trough being more n... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- The series of suspected cloudbursts that hit three locations near Harsil, a village between Uttarkashi and Gagotri in Uttarakhand, was triggered by the monsoon trough being more n... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- Tuesday's landslides and floods in the Uttarkashi region, in the heart of the Bhagirathi Ecosensitive Zone (BESZ), have yet again highlighted the trade-offs involved in the constr... Read More
India, Aug. 7 -- Over 130 hectares under a tribal reserve will be diverted for the Great Nicobar Trunk Infrastructure Road project, the government has told Rajya Sabha. Overall, 238.76 hectares are pr... Read More
India, Aug. 7 -- The National Remote Sensing Centre's post-flash flood satellite images of the upper reaches of Uttarakhand indicate the accumulation of debris in and around Dharali, the disappearance... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- The office of the Assam principal chief conservator of forests (PCCF) has sought a status report from the state special chief secretary (forests) on action taken against the latte... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- Horrifying videos of multiple buildings, habitations, market areas being washed away in Uttarakhand's Dharali, in the Bhagirathi Ecosensitive Zone has once again captured the impa... Read More
India, Aug. 5 -- Horrifying visuals showing floodwaters and mud surging down a mountain and crashing into Uttarakhand's Dharali, washing away homes, hotels and a market in the Bhagirathi Ecosensitive ... Read More
India, Aug. 5 -- The International Container Transhipment Port at Great Nicobar Island's Galathea Bay has been notified as a new major port, ports and shipping minister Sarbananda Sonowal told Rajya S... Read More