UN talks agree climate deal building blocks

Environment Minister Prakash Javedekar assured Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis of an early 'positive' decision on construction of an ambitious coastal road to decongest the western side of Mumbai

The Central government on Sunday assured the state a speedy approval of the coastal road project which is set to decongest the traffic in the city, in particularly, the western suburbs.Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis met with environment and forest ...

New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has defended his decision to allocate coal blocks to Hindalco and said it was approved after due deliberations. According to details of the CBI examination of Singh in the coal block allocation scam ...

T Post these changes, the coastal road work will start. We have started work on preparing its DPR. I have full faith that coastal road will be a reality and our effort will be to start the work on coastal roads in 2015. This will help decongest ...

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 11: The central government will extend financial support to set up a new ayurvedic clinical research centre in Kerala to help scientifically validate traditional systems of healing, a union minister said Sunday.Shripad Yesso ...

CHENNAI: In what could trigger a fresh controversy , the National Board for Wildlife under the ministry of environment and forests has cleared the Kerala government's proposal for an environment impact assessment study for a new Mullaperiyar dam. ...

15 Dec 2014 Overview The key to interpreting the Lima Call to Action is understanding national mitigation pledges (called INDCs), and their central role in ongoing negotiations. The Lima outcome brought quite a bit of clarity to these ...

Environmental groups have criticised the climate deal reached at a marathon conference in Peru as an ineffectual compromise, but New Zealand Climate Change Minister Tim Groser said there had been positive developments. Smoke from factory chimneys ...

The Environment Ministry on Thursday gave its nod to a plan for constructing a grand statue for Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Mumbai city. Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest (MoEF) Prakash ...