Actor Sanjay Mishra is happy to be part of a film, which touches upon the issue of water crisis in a village in Rajasthan.


Sanjay Mishra excited about his film on water crisis


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The Dubai Municipality has honoured a 10-year-old Indian expat


Dubai honours Indian expat for 'green message'


Known more for their slithery manoeuvres in political muck, Goas netas, all of a sudden, appear to have woken up to the wonders of farming and getting their hands and feet soiled in slushy paddy fields.


Goa netas plough fields, plant paddy... all for a Facebook challenge


Seven Amarnath Yatra pilgrims were injured on Wednesday in an accident on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in the Ramban district.


Accident on Jammu-Srinagar highway, 7 Amarnath pilgrims injured


Rail traffic on the Kalka-Shimla track -- a world heritage site -- was disrupted on Wednesday in Himachal Pradesh owing to landslides following rainfall, an official here said. Nobody was injured.


Landslides hit rail traffic on Kalka-Shimla track


A day after the partial collapse of a  bridge in suburban Andheri, another railway overbridge developed visible cracks at downtown Grant Road on Wednesday.


Mumbai rail bridge cracks up


The death toll from a landslide on a trek route to the Amarnath cave shrine in Jammu and Kashmir have increased to five, police said on Wednesday.


Amarnath landslide toll reaches 5


Two Amarnath Yatra pilgrims were killed and four others injured in a landslide on the trek to the Jammu and Kashmir cave shrine from the Baltal base camp on Tuesday, police said.


Two Amarnath pilgrims killed in landslide


The Union Environment Ministry on Tuesday relaxed the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) rules, clearing way for the defence projects and development of important infrastructure in the ecologically-critical areas.


Defence projects exempted from coastal regulation norms


Delhi Environment and Forest Minister Imran Hussain on Tuesday said the AAP government had written to Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal to seek revocation of permission to cut trees for redevelopment projects in south Delhi.


Revoke permission to cut trees, Delhi government tells L-G


Reliance Energy on Tuesday announced it will replace 88,000  high pressure sodium vapour (HPSV) streetlights with LED lamps in Mumbai suburbs this year to save 40 percent electricity.


Reliance Energy to replace 88,000 Mumbai streetlights with LEDs


Himachal Pradesh capital Shimla on Tuesday recorded 118 mm rainfall within 24 hours in this month - the highest precipitation since 2005, a meteorological official said here.


Shimla sees highest precipitation in 13 years


Households owning rooftop solar systems can save up to 95 per cent on their electricity bills, the latest study by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)  has found.


Rooftop solar households can save up to 95% on bills:  CEEW


Designer Krsnaa Mehta, whose brand India Circus works closely with Wildlife SOS -- an organisation for conserving and protecting Indias wildlife -- says he is moved by the plight of animals, and is creating a line inspired by it.


Designer Krsnaa Mehta moved by plight of animals in India


As many as 24 incoming flights were diverted from the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here on Monday evening following heavy rains, officials said.


Heavy rains: 24 flights diverted from Delhi


The Supreme Court on Monday asked Delhi's AAP government to inform it about the details of its proposal to purchase 960 semi-low floor, fully electric buses, and sought to know the nature and quality of these buses, and the time required to set up charging stations for them.


SC seeks details of Delhi proposal to buy 960 semi-low floor electric buses


At least seven persons were killed and several others injured across Nepal due to floods and landslides in the wake of incessant rains in the last 24 hours, officials said on Monday.


Seven die in Nepal floods, landslide


Green activist Claude Alvares, whose petition in the Supreme Court led to the shutdown of the mining industry in Goa earlier this year, was on Monday arrested along with an associate, for symbolically locking the offices of the state Mines and Geology Department here.


Green activist Claude Alvares arrested for symbolic protest, released


The Supreme Court on Monday extended, till 2022, the time for creating away-from-reactor (AFR) facilities to store Kudankulam nuclear power plant's spent fuel, currently kept within the plant.


Build AFR facilities by 2022 for Kudankulam n-plant's spent fuel: SC


Much more of the country's agricultural land needs to come under irrigation to counter the effects of climate change on the economy, but India also needs to be wary of the "carbon imperialism" of the West, Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Arvind Subramanian said on Monday.


Need more irrigation, caution on West's carbon imperialism: CEA


More than 80 houses belonging to people who had encroached upon Manipur's forest land were razed to the ground early on Monday by the police in Imphal East district.

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