Two top plant breeders have on World Environment Day named a new hybrid rose after E.K. Janaki Ammal, India’s first woman botanist who was instrumental in restructuring Calcutta’s Botanical Survey...

Tata Steel and Maithon Power — a joint venture between the Tata Group and DVC — have voluntarily opted for pollution assessments on their plant premises in Jamshedpur and Maithon, Dhanbad, walking...

A state agency’s report has laid bare the dangerous levels of toxicity in the city’s air, which is defying the trend of falling air pollution level in most Bengal districts.A report published by t...

Amid the uncertainties brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, an IAS officer based in Meghalaya’s Garo Hills region revisited the saplings he had planted nearly a year ago, on World Environment Day...

The cycle of life goes on — this is the message that this World Environment Day brought to West Bengal. Plantation drives organized by both the government and non-governmental organizations held out...

Oil India Limited on Friday announced an immediate financial relief of Rs 30,000 for each family affected by the May 27 oil well blowout, which continued to spout crude and natural gas at Baghjan in A...

With the Dalma wildlife sanctuary closed due to coronavirus pandemic, schoolchildren will miss Friday’s World Environment Day event, which has been reduced to a low-key affair. Unlike previous years...

A Kerala town has made it mandatory for all new buildings to plant native fruit trees as a condition for the grant of the occupancy certificate, without which the building cannot be occupied.The Left-...

Meghalaya has its eyes set on record books on World Environment Day with plans to plant nearly 1.5 million trees.Under the Meghalaya One Citizen One Tree campaign, to be initiated on June 5, about 1 m...

Sir — Several states in India have begun to prescribe homoeopathic treatment for Covid-19, presumably bolstered by a recommendation by the Ayush ministry earlier this year. This has led to a rush to...