Gulmarg shivers at minus two degrees Celsius
bySrinagar: With the minimum temperature falling six degrees below normal, north Kashmir’s ski resort town of Gulmarg Saturday shivered at minus 2.3 degrees Celsius….
Environment
Green tribunal scraps Posco’s $12bn Odisha project
byNew Delhi : The National Green Tribunal (NGT) Friday suspended environment clearance to South Korean steel major Posco’s $12 billion project in Odisha, the…
Himachal to get $200 mn World Bank green loan – Dhumal
byShimla: The World Bank will give Himachal Pradesh a $200 million loan to enable it become the country’s first carbon neutral state by 2020,…
Is government serious about saving the Ganga?
byNew Delhi : The Ganga, deified by Hindus and intrinsic to its literature and lore while providing water to over 40 percent of India’s…
Will India’s horses trot into sunset?
byNew Delhi : For millennia, they have shared the world with their human masters. They have carried their owners in the thick of battle,…
Can the gharial win the battle for survival?
byNew Delhi : A few years back, a boat trip down the Chambal river in north India would have yielded a surreal sight –…
Youth body to fight against BCCI stadium plans at Shimla’s historic Annandale
byShimla : The DYFI is set to launch an aggressive campaign this week to save the Annandale ground saying top politicians and land sharks…
Uttarakhand forest department wakes up to ground realities
byDehradun : Following the widespread damage being caused by wild elephants in this small mountain state and the number of people who have been…
Tiger data base ready, to prevent poaching
byDehradun : Taking a cue from South Africa where a database of wild elephants has been created that are being poached by hunters for…
Now man-tiger conflict on the anvil
byDehradun : Uttarakhand is already facing massive man-elephant conflict as the corridors meant for the migration of the pachyderms have been lost to rampant…