Rethinking on Tipaimukh

In 2010, then Environment and Forests minister Jairam Ramesh imposed an indefinite moratorium on Bt Brinjal, the first genetically engineered food crop cleared by a government panel in India. It was an unexpected setback for the biotech industry ...

National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) has welcomed the new guidelines issued by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest in respect of high rise buildings. The guidelines would now allow greater flexibility for state governments and local ...

A controversial move by the Union Environment Ministry to outsource monitoring of forest clearances to agencies and individual experts has kicked up a row. Even while welcoming the move to ensure proper monitoring, greens point out the need for ...

Union ministry of environment and forests has passed a message saying the dolphins cannot be kept in captivity. A circular for the same has been issued last week in which dolphins were considered as `non-human persons' as they have unusually high ...

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has indicated that it would approach the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to resolve the issue of emission norms of ...

Renewal of mining leases in Odisha is now fraught with a tough challenge after the guidelines of Union ministry of environment & forests (MoEF), making it compulsory for miners to obtain full forest diversion. Forest diversion cases apply to 55 ...

Shillong, Jun 4 : the Nongtalang Elaka in Meghalaya has sought the intervention of the Union Ministry for Forests and Environment over the illegal mining of limestone all along the Nongtalang area bordering Bangladesh. In a letter to Union Environment and ...

Land alloted to Rungta Mines is home to elephants, tribals and Maoists The Forest Advisory Committee of the Union environment ministry has paved the way for another private company to mine iron ore in the biodiversity-rich Saranda forest division of ...

Despite getting nod from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), it will take another three years to turn Mulayam Singh Yadav's dream project — lion safari in Fisher Forest at Etawah — into a reality. The previous deadline of June ...