Poor governance and mediocre short-sighted politics are destroying the paradise that Goa was as its environment, water table, culture and way of life is drastically threatened by tourism and......
'Being authoritative is one thing, but being authoritarian is quite another -- the current prime minister is clearly one.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi with Communist Party of......
'Why should the people of Odisha divert water from the Mahanadhi when 13 out of 32 districts are chronically drought prone?' 'Water is a state subject. Can you really nationalise rivers for which......
Image: Jairam Ramesh with his new book, Green Signals. 'This is not a Sanjay Baru or Natwar Singh type of book. It's not a memoir. It's not a book to reveal conversations, real or imaginary. This......
'Congress is on the defensive about scams and corruption charges.' 'The media is against the UPA.''The Nehru family is not just another family; it is a national wealth.' Kerala Chief Minister Oomen......
It was a big victory for RTI activist G Krishnan when the Delhi high court dismissed the plea of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) against making public the Gadgil Committee report......
Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Wednesday said he was hopeful of speedy clearance to the Navi Mumbai airport project but Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh feared it would destroy large......
The fate of power projects of nearly 26,000 Mw in the economically fragile Sindhudurg and Ratnagiri districts of Maharashtra hangs in the balance. The Ministry of Environment and Forests has told......
Pollution level in ten major industrial hubs in the country, including some in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, has reached to a 'very alarmingly' level, according to a study. The hubs in the top ten......
Did you know that, in just the decade of the '90s, natural disasters affected 2.1 billion people and caused a damage of $687 billion?While that figure is itself alarming, the picture gets a lot......