The Kolkata Municipal Corporation launched an awareness drive to keep the Ganges clean. Mayor Firhad Hakim today kicked off the Ganga Utsav drive urging citizens to keep the river clean.

Tamil Nadu’s move is a laudable recognition of the inevitability of extreme weather events affecting people’s health even as it prepares to address issues arising out of extreme heat events ...

Whether it's digging up the dead in Madagascar or a striptease in Taiwan, different cultures have unique rituals to mark a ...

A dead person must therefore be cremated as soon as possible, because only then can their soul free itself from the body and move on. In India, the River Ganges ... as much a part of the family ...

During April and May 2024, many parts of Tamil Nadu recorded temperatures above 40 ... heatwaves is concentrated around ...

Success in the effective implementation of environmental laws would, in this end, be achieved through the balance of ...

These three species are protected in Bangladesh under the Wildlife (Conservation and Security) Act-2012, and international trade in sawfish or their body parts is prohibited under the Convention ...

Over the years, India has adopted environmental legislation that caters to specific issues that affect the country on various levels. Below is a brief outline of major environmental laws in India: The ...

Devi wanted to die on her own terms, namely in the most important Hindu pilgrimage city of Varanasi in northern India where Hindus have gone to be cremated next to the holy river Ganges for thousands ...