Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan advocates for the establishment of 'Mahakal Standard Time' based on Ujjain's historical significance in time calculation, challenging the dominance of Greenwich Mean Time.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has advocated for the establishment of 'Mahakal Standard Time' (MST), citing Ujjain's historical significance as a centre for time calculation and astronomy.
Over 70 scientists, environmentalists, and former bureaucrats are urging the Indian government to reconsider the Great Nicobar Island project, citing environmental and social concerns.
The central government's Great Nicobar development project, proposed around an unprecedented transhipment port, will be executed to keep environmental impact minimal, and is essential as it is of national importance, the government has said amid calls to abort the controversial project due to ecological concerns, the Centre said in an official statement.
Delhi's 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) stood at 248 on Saturday.
'Dharavi will be completely slum free by 2040'
President A P J Abdul Kalam will confer The Energy and Resources Institute Corporate Awards on June 26.
Shivani Manchanda, career Counsellor and director, Careertrack talks about the most common mistakes that people make while deciding a career and suggests the possibilities of pursuing parallel careers according to your skill sets.
National Institute of Industrial Engineering announces admission to three postgraduate programmes
HNB Garhwal University invites applications for its MSc in Environmental Management programme.
The highest salary rose by 14.22 per cent from last year.
The National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, invites applications for its two-year PG diploma management programmes.
Tata Iron and Steel is scouting for a partner to share Rs 1,500 crore investment on environmental management system upgradation to reduce the level of carbon dioxide generated while manufacturing steel at its plant in Jamshedpur.
As the world awaits the end of the global pandemic, rural Bengal might be witnessing a recession unfolding in bits and pieces. With factories and tea gardens closing down, agricultural income falling and storm Aila ravaging a large part of deltaic West Bengal in 2010, migration gradually became a norm.
The ease with which city-level master plans are altered and land-use patterns changed without considering carrying capacities or the overall environmental footprint of urbanisation in different states has already created water and air pollution crises in several emerging and existing cities.
India will require new technical solutions and approaches to solve environmental problems.
An Australian Paralympic sailor and team official were robbed at gunpoint while training in Rio de Janeiro at the weekend, raising fears about the security of athletes and tourists in the leadup to the Olympic Games.
Emergency measures are needed to avoid "a total collapse in public security, health, education, transport and environmental management," a decree in the state's Official Gazette said.
For the remaining projects, it is difficult to arrive at an estimate.
India loses 333 acres of prime forest every day. Instead of working to conserve India's forests and water resources, the environment minister has set up a committee to 'dismantle' the five key laws that provide environmental protection.
Were river experts excluded from IIT consortium on the Ganga River Basin Management Plan? Rashme Sehgal reports.
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