Monsoon fury continued to wreak havoc on Uttarakhand on Tuesday with flash floods, landslips and cloudbursts claiming 54 lives and leaving 61,890 Char-Dham yatris stranded in Chamoli, Rudraprayag,

The State government will constitute a Cabinet sub-committee to decide measures to effectively tackle illegal sand mining in the state.

Minister for Public Works Dr H C Mahadevappa told presspersons here on Tuesday that he would be heading the sub-committee to be set up soon. “We will try to prepare a policy in the next three months to regulate sand mining.”

It is time for Mohammed Qader of Bahuka village in Sirajganj district to move again.

Move is aimed at check-mating mafia which has been mining sand unchecked from rivers and lakes

The Karnataka government has proposed a new sand policy to check the operations of the sand mafia. This will replace the present one formulated by the previous BJP government.

Upping the ante against Karnataka for its refusal to release Cauvery waters, Tamil Nadu today decided to file a contempt petition in the Supreme Court besides seeking a direction for setting up two

While the government is found dragging its feet on the implementation of the Detailed Area Plan (DAP) gazetted in 2010, realtors and others have been destroying wetlands and grab water bodies in vi

Efforts, finally, seem to be are on to save and revive the fast-disappearing Arkavathy river, with the Waterman of India, Rajendra Singh, working with the State government in this regard.

The Magsaysay awardee, Singh, was in the City on Friday, to hold talks with the government and chalk out a plan for conservation and revival of the water body.

PIL seeks direction from court to restrain APSEZ from diverting, blocking flow of rivers and from constructing on river-beds

The Adani group owned Adani Port and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) was served a notice on Wednesday by the Gujarat High Court on a public interest litigation (PIL) alleging destruction, bunding, blocking and diversion of more than 14 rivers by the company.

Climate change is likely to worsen floods on rivers such as the Ganges, the Nile and the Amazon this century while a few, including the now-inundated Danube, may become less prone, a Japanese-led s

Unchecked global warming may increase the risk of flooding at the end of this century in 42 per cent of the Earth's land surface, including parts of India, Southeast Asia and Africa, a new study ha