Initiative to document green pigeons in Tamenglong dist

Goa"s Directorate of Mines and Geology has invited applications from people affected by the closure of mines to avail benefits from the state's District Mineral Foundation (DMF), the corpus of which has been collected through taxes paid by mining firms."DMF ...

They have uploaded a social media post thanking Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Photograph: Courtesy Kensington Royal/Twitter Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have found an innovative way to put their wedding gifts to good use. The couple announced that anyone who might wish to mark their wedding day on May 19, 2018, should consider making a donation to one of the seven charities chosen by them, rather than sending a wedding gift. 'The couple have personally chosen seven charities which represent ...

Maharashtras Gadchiroli district will soon have a fossil park. Located 950 km from Mumbai, Gadchiroli district in Vidarbha region is rich in nature and fossils have been found here. Work is in progress for the fossil park at Wadadham, which would be a ...

My dear countrymen, Namaskar. Today is the holy day of Ram Navami. My heartiest greetings to countrymen on this pious, festive occasion. We have seen how closely the power of ‘Ram Naam’, the chant of Lord Ram’s name, permeated every moment ...

The riverine system in the hill state of Himachal Pradesh has fallen sick. The rivers are in a bad shape faced with burgeoning pollution with sewage, industrial effluents and the absence of water besides bearing the brunt of the climate change. Uncontrolled ...

Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, has died in Kenya at the age of 45, after becoming a symbol of efforts to save his subspecies from extinction, a fate that only science can now prevent. When Sudan was born in 1973 in the wild in Shambe, South Sudan, ...

These plantations are not only eating into the land occupied by the region’s native forests, they could also disturb the ground water reserve and soil quality, says Ankur Paliwal. Rubber plantations, which have been vigorously promoted in north-east India in the name of increasing forest cover and rehabilitation of tribespeople, have got environmentalists worried.   These plantations are not only eating into the land occupied by the region’s native forests, they could also ...

Auroville just turned 50.Aurovilians who grew up in the experimental city speak of how their childhood was marked by a sense of openness and possibility.Nikita Puri reports from the City of Dawn. IMAGE: Auroville's Matrimandir, with its geodisic dome, took 37 years to build and is covered with gold discs. Photograph: Kind courtesy DR/Wikimedia Commons When Francis Neemberry, a Brooklyn-born American, wrote to his mother from India in the 1970s, he had a strange request: Could she send him 100 ...

The population of endangered snow leopards has witnessed a surge in the Himalayas in the recent times.The wildlife wing of Himachal Pradesh's forest department has spotted a significant rise in the number snow leopards in Chichim valley of Lahaul Spiti in the ...