Environment Ministry

Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg was twice detained during a demonstration in favour of Indigenous rights in Oslo on Wednesday, with police removing her and other activists from the finance ministry and later the environment ministry.

A Supreme Court-constituted panel has asked the Union Environment Ministry to amend or withdraw the guidelines related to setting up zoos and safaris within tiger reserves and wildlife sanctuaries.

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has come out with quality standards for USB Type-C charging port, according to a senior consumer affairs ministry official. In the interest of consumers and to reduce e-waste, the Department of Consumer Affairs in consultations with the industry stakeholders is mulling mandating two types of common charging port...

The number of dead seals discovered off the coast on Saturday initially appeared to be 700 but later rose to 2,500, according to the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

The environment ministry on Thursday said a news report on Namibia seeking India's support for lifting a UN ban on trade of ivory as part of the cheetah deal "largely relies on speculation, hearsay and not on facts".

The Union environment ministry has constituted a nine-member task force for monitoring the reintroduction of cheetahs into the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.

A couple in Brazil is being investigated by the environmental ministry after reportedly contaminating a waterfall and river with blue dye in a gender reveal stunt.

Assam government today filed a petition in Gauhati High Court after Tamil Nadu refused to return leased elephants, even as the Union Ministry of Environment stood by the Tamil Nadu government, tweeting that elephant Joymala was well looked-after

Twenty-four of the 25 villages in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park (KNP), where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the first batch of eight cheetahs from Namibia on Sept 17, have been resettled, Union Environment Ministry officials said.

The commerce and industry ministry is planning to hire consultants to study business environment and compliances and suggest steps to promote ease of doing business in the country.

India and China now have the most number of wetlands of international importance with 10 more Indian sites entering the Ramsar list, taking the total to 64, the Union Environment Ministry said on Wednesday.

China has expressed hope that the ongoing investigation of Vivo India in a money laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) would be conducted in accordance with the law and regulations, providing a "fair" and "non-discriminatory" business environment to China’s firms. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian stated on Wednesday th...

Two women, one Austrian and the other Romanian, were killed in a shark attack this week off the coast of Egypt, Egypt's environment ministry and the tourists' respective foreign ministries said Sunday.

The Union environment ministry on Wednesday rebutted the Environmental Performance Index 2022, which ranked India at the bottom of a list of 180 countries, saying some of the indicators it used are "extrapolated".

Facebook, Google and other companies who are part of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) have expressed concerns that the Indian cybersecurity rules may create an "environment of fear rather than trust.”

Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg was twice detained during a demonstration in favour of Indigenous rights in Oslo on Wednesday, with police removing her and other activists from the finance ministry and later the environment ministry.

A Supreme Court-constituted panel has asked the Union Environment Ministry to amend or withdraw the guidelines related to setting up zoos and safaris within tiger reserves and wildlife sanctuaries.

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has come out with quality standards for USB Type-C charging port, according to a senior consumer affairs ministry official. In the interest of consumers and to reduce e-waste, the Department of Consumer Affairs in consultations with the industry stakeholders is mulling mandating two types of common charging port...

The number of dead seals discovered off the coast on Saturday initially appeared to be 700 but later rose to 2,500, according to the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

The environment ministry on Thursday said a news report on Namibia seeking India's support for lifting a UN ban on trade of ivory as part of the cheetah deal "largely relies on speculation, hearsay and not on facts".

The Union environment ministry has constituted a nine-member task force for monitoring the reintroduction of cheetahs into the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.

A couple in Brazil is being investigated by the environmental ministry after reportedly contaminating a waterfall and river with blue dye in a gender reveal stunt.

Assam government today filed a petition in Gauhati High Court after Tamil Nadu refused to return leased elephants, even as the Union Ministry of Environment stood by the Tamil Nadu government, tweeting that elephant Joymala was well looked-after

Twenty-four of the 25 villages in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park (KNP), where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the first batch of eight cheetahs from Namibia on Sept 17, have been resettled, Union Environment Ministry officials said.

The commerce and industry ministry is planning to hire consultants to study business environment and compliances and suggest steps to promote ease of doing business in the country.

India and China now have the most number of wetlands of international importance with 10 more Indian sites entering the Ramsar list, taking the total to 64, the Union Environment Ministry said on Wednesday.

China has expressed hope that the ongoing investigation of Vivo India in a money laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) would be conducted in accordance with the law and regulations, providing a "fair" and "non-discriminatory" business environment to China’s firms. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian stated on Wednesday th...

Two women, one Austrian and the other Romanian, were killed in a shark attack this week off the coast of Egypt, Egypt's environment ministry and the tourists' respective foreign ministries said Sunday.

The Union environment ministry on Wednesday rebutted the Environmental Performance Index 2022, which ranked India at the bottom of a list of 180 countries, saying some of the indicators it used are "extrapolated".

Facebook, Google and other companies who are part of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) have expressed concerns that the Indian cybersecurity rules may create an "environment of fear rather than trust.”