India?s green cover has increased, but outside demarcated forests

Latest state of forests report shows increase of green cover by 5,871 sq km; most of the increase is owing to plantations India’s green cover is increasing, but this ...

60% chance of drought: Private forecaster

There’s a 60% chance of drought across India this year, private weather company Skymet said on Friday in a revised forecast downgrading its monsoon prediction to 91% ...

Over one lakh suicides in India every year, report says

Over 1, 00,000 people commit suicides in India every year on an average. The number of suicides in the past decade has recorded an increase of 21.6 per cent, said a governm...

Madhuri Dixit joins MP government’s Mamta Abhiyan

The Madhya Pradesh government has recently launched several initiatives to help different sections of the society. It is also using noted celebrities to strengthen the rela...

Attend The Hunger Games Premiere and After-Party And Support A Great Cause

A new online auction is giving you the chance to attend The Hunger Games: Mocking jay Part 1 premiere and after-party in Los Angeles. The new teaser trailer for the next in...

No toilets for girls in one-fifth of India?s schools, enrolment on decline

Dip in number of schools providing midday meals to their students

“About 20 per cent schools in India still lack toilet facilities for girls,” says a re...

Climate-smart development can increase global economic output by $1.8 trillion: World Bank

Right policy choices can deliver significant economic and health benefits – as well as help reduce emissions to combat climate change, says new report A recently rele...

Billy Joel and Meryl Streep Support Ivory Ban in New York

Billy Joel has given his support to a proposed ban of the sale of ivory in New York. “I wholeheartedly support the ivory sales ban bill pending in New York State,&rdq...

Cost of growth: Global natural resources depleting by 45% a year

Analysis of data by World Bank from 136 countries shows poor countries are losing natural resources fast without gaining much by way of human resource capital or gross weal...