Imagine Mumbai & Chennai underwater!

A new report has determined that increasing climate change could lead to a major human crisis for South Asia, with more than 120 million people from India and Bangladesh likely to become homeless......

Several Akhilesh projects under Yogi scanner

The Gomti Riverfront Development project, the Agra-Lucknow Expressway, the Jai Prakash Narayan International Centre and the efforts towards the beautification of Old Lucknow are some of Akhilesh......

'Water is not anybody's private property'

'Water is not an economic resource, but we treat water as an economic resource meant for the benefit of human beings.''Water is more of a life source than an economic resource.' Forty per cent of......

Diabetes risk highest for Indians

The 4th World Congress on Prevention of Diabetes and its Complications, organised by the World Health Organisation, the Diabetes Research Centre and the M V Hospital for Diabetes in Chennai, the......

How FM plans to tackle air pollution and save environment

The Centre on Monday earmarked a separate Rs 2,217 crore for 42 urban centres to tackle air pollution and announced the much-awaited voluntary vehicle scrapping policy to phase out old and......

Bangalore neighbourhood's toxic air threatens India's future

Once called India’s garden city, this upper middle-class residential area in Bangalore has India’s most toxic air, says Devanik Saha, IndiaSpend.com. On the day this story was written,......

Entire text of finance minister's Budget Speech

Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......