In the second phase, the single-use plastic will be banned in all Air India flights.
India's craft chocolate makers are changing the market by using local cacao, creating bold new flavours, making chocolate both a luxury and a story.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has advised against the abrupt closure of pigeon feeding spots in Mumbai, urging the BMC to ensure controlled feeding of the birds amid health concerns and a court case.
His specially designed shoes showed a turtle swimming in the pristine blue waters of the ocean, with the message 'End Plastic Waste' written on it.
The Uttar Pradesh government is taking comprehensive measures to ensure the Ganga River is "dip-safe" during the Maha Kumbh, a massive religious gathering. This includes daily water testing, a 200-km temporary drainage system for greywater, and state-of-the-art technology to manage human waste. Authorities are also emphasizing the importance of keeping the river clean by removing pooja waste and encouraging the use of reusable items.
If India caves in to US pressure as Trump hopes it will, he will further try to blackmail it into submission, points out Ramesh Menon.
Delhi's crime rate against women stood at 144.4 in 2022 -- the highest among all states and Union Territories.
'The speed at which an aircraft lands or takes off, even a single object can work as a bullet.'
The ad, which draws a link between the character Kachra with 'kachra', the Hindi word for garbage, was aired on World Environment Day on June 5.
The state governments expressed their resolve to end the menace as India played global host to 2018 World Environment Day celebrations with the theme "Beat Plastic Pollution".
Movie folk mark World Environment Day by inspirational messages and useful information.
'Why has cows eating plastic become so important only before the Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh elections?'
This eco-warrior helps the waterways of Kerala breathe plastic-free.
Plastic bags are but one aspect of India's growing waste management crisis, says Geetanjali Krishna.
India's fresh restrictions on limiting access to Bangladeshi exports appear to be in response to Dhaka denying certain value-added items from the Northeast to enter that country through the land transit points.
E-waste accounts for 70 per cent of Indian landfills.
Walmart-owned Flipkart on Wednesday said it has eliminated all single-use plastic packaging used across its fulfilment centres in the country. With this, the e-commerce major has delivered on its public commitment to move to plastic-free packaging in its supply chain by 2021. This has been achieved across more than 70 facilities of Flipkart spread all over India, where it has eliminated single-use plastic packaging by introducing the most scalable sustainable alternatives, a statement said.
India will be the global host this year for World Environment Day, with the theme "Beat Plastic Pollution".
Akshat Bansal's gender neutral collection repurposed marine plastic waste into fluid designs.
The plastic bags were found on the grassy land on Raja Rammohan Roy Sarani under the Haridebpur Police station area when labourers were cleaning the patch, the official said.
The Ganga water at the Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj, where lakhs of people are taking a holy dip every day during the ongoing Maha Kumbh, is currently unsafe for bathing as it exceeds the prescribed limit for biological oxygen demand (BOD), a key parameter to determine water quality, according to government data.
Rediff readers tell us how they are supporting the ban on plastic.
Mumbai-born Veena Sahajwalla has developed a microfactory in Australia to upcycle electronic waste.
The idol was made by artist Abaasaheb Shewale and his team.
The UIDAI asserted that the Aadhaar letter, its cutaway portion, downloaded versions of Aadhaar on ordinary paper or mAadhaar are "perfectly valid".
We need to bring solid waste management into all school curricula in an organised and cohesive manner, suggests Anjuli Bhargava.
Urge them to end 'avalanche of plastic'
Haaziq Kazi, disturbed by the damage we have done to marine life, has designed a solution to save the oceans.
Have you switched to cloth bags and bio-degradable options?
The team of Bangalore students will compete with teams from 12 other countries at the finals of the Volvo Young Environmentalists Award 2005.
A pilot project to test the quality and durability of plastic roads, especially during the rainy season, is being undertaken, a top official of the highways department said.
'We want to make sustainability affordable.' 'We tell everyone, don't just recycle, Craste it!'
The authentic breathable kits for Argentina, Germany, Japan, Mexico and Spain contain 50% Parley Ocean Plastic.
While so-called 'cow protectors' have indulged in widespread vigilantism under the garb of protection of cattle, there has been little effort to save them from the real threat to their survival -- urban garbage, open dumps and apathy of cow owners.
Veena Balakrishnan and Vighnesh Vancheeshwar tell us how they planned it.
The environmentally conscious sleeping arrangements were put on display for the media for the first time on Thursday at a mock apartment in the Tokyo 2020 headquarters
A migrant worker from West Bengal was allegedly beaten to death in Haryana's Charkhi Dadri district over suspicion that he had eaten beef, police said on Saturday, adding they have arrested five members of a cow vigilante group for the attack.
Snapping the two months slide, the country's merchandise exports rose marginally by 0.5 per cent to $34.58 billion in September while trade deficit narrowed to $20.78 billion. According to official data released on Wednesday, imports increased by 1.6 per cent to $55.36 billion in September compared to $54.49 billion in the year-ago period. The trade deficit, or the gap between imports and exports, was $20.8 billion during the same month last year.
Dia Mirza will appear in Kaafir, which will be streamed on ZEE5.
This entrepreneur has already recycled 119 tonnes of trash in Bengaluru.
