New Delhi, Aug 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Director General, National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), Rajiv Ranjan Mishra said the Ganga River Basin Management Plan (GBRMP), by a consortium of IITs, covers the issue of pollution and…
New Delhi, Aug 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Widespread rainfall activity with isolated heavy to very heavy falls are very likely to continue over northeast India, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim till August 27 and reduce thereafter with…
By Nivedita Khandekar New Delhi, Aug 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) A day ahead of the latest deadline to categorise their thermal power plants (TPP), the states sought clarification from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Tuesday,…
New Delhi, Aug 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) India’s Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Tuesday held a telephonic conversation with US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry to discuss the Climate Action and Finance Mobilisation Dialogue (CAFMD)…
New Delhi, Aug 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Equity and climate justice should be the touchstone of any global climate response, and only then can it be held that strategies that are just and “in reverence to Mother…
Chennai, Aug 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Slight tremors were felt by people in some parts of the city on Tuesday afternoon due to a quake in the sea. “The quake happened in the sea at about 200…
Kohima, Aug 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Two ‘vulnerable’ leopard cubs, rescued from a tree by four teenagers in a Nagaland village, were released to the state’s Zoological Park in Dimapur, officials said on Tuesday. A Nagaland Wildlife…
New Delhi, Aug 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Scientists on Tuesday said climate change has made extreme rainfall events similar to those that led to last month’s floods in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg between 1.2 and…
Bhubaneswar, Aug 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) With the state recording 30 per cent deficit rainfall in this monsoon, the Odisha government is preparing a contingency plan to tackle a possible drought-like situation, officials said on Monday. “At…
Guwahati, Aug 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) A ‘moderate’ earthquake, measuring 4 on the Richter Scale, was reported in Assam’s Kokrajhar and adjoining West Bengal and Bhutan on Monday, officials said. The National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said…
New Delhi, Aug 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Case study from Hyderabad on the steps it took to become ‘water positive’ through the ‘City Water Balance Plan’ (CWBP) was showcased at a virtual session of the World Water…
New Delhi, Aug 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Monday said it will re-constitute a committee to examine the environmental damage caused following a major fire in Assam’s Baghjan oil well. A bench of Justices…
New Delhi, Aug 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Faridabad Municipal Corporation on Monday informed the Supreme Court that few farmhouses have been razed, during the hearing of a matter connected with the demolition of unauthorised structures on…
New Delhi, Aug 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Widespread rainfall activity with isolated heavy to very heavy falls are very likely to continue over northeast India, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, and Sikkim till August 27, the India Meteorological Department…
New Delhi, Aug 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Environ-legal activists have demanded the removal of a National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) member, who suggested charging 2 per cent proportionate cost for a project passing through protected areas even…
New Delhi, Aug 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) A group of two housing societies and some individual residents on Monday told the Supreme Court that no public consultation or environmental clearance was secured for the construction of Dwarka…
Chennai, Aug 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tamil Nadu will file an appeal in the Supreme Court against the order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) as it disposed a case relating to Mekedatu dam proposed by the…
New Delhi, Aug 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) India’s national capital, Delhi got its first ever much needed smog tower, which was inaugurated by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday. A 20-meter-tall structure was set up at Baba…
Beijing, Aug 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Heavy rainstorms have lashed China’s Chongqing Municipality and Guizhou province since Sunday, said local authorities on Monday. From 8 a.m. Sunday to 8 a.m. Monday, rainstorms hit 26 districts and counties…
San Francisco, Aug 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Caldor Fire raging in California’s El Dorado County has spread to 104,309 acres, with only 5 per cent containment, authorities have said, adding that more homes and businesses were…