Diwali Celebrations Light up India Despite Pollution Concerns

Diwali Celebrations Light up India Despite Pollution Concerns

13 November 2023: Streets and homes across India were bathed in a warm glow on Sunday night as millions of people celebrated Diwali, the national festival of lights. The festivities reached new heights in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where a record-breaking 2.2 million earthen oil lamps adorned the landscape, setting a Guinness World […]

Fires Ravage Reserved Forest

Fires Ravage Reserved Forest

IMPHAL (Manipur): According to media reports,  wildfires that broke out sometime on Sunday afternoon (March 12) continues to rage, destroying sizaable portion of Langjing Manbi reserve forest despite hectic efforts to douse them. Massive forest fires broke out in numerous places across the Langjing Manbi reserved forest under the Henglep sub-division of the Churachandpur district. […]

More African cheetahs for Kuno National Park

More African cheetahs for Kuno National Park

It’s an ambitious plan to reintroduce an extinct predatory animal species. Twelve cheetahs arrived in Madhya Pradesh from South Africa on Saturday ( Feb 18) and were released into the quarantine enclosures at the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Sheopur district They have been flown to India as part of an agreement to introduce dozens […]

Single use plastic is Banned in India

Single use plastic is Banned in India

Watch out ! That plastic stirrer that you have in your plastic coffee cup may land you in more trouble than you bargained for. From tomorrow, people who use single use plastic in public places may have to cough up as much as a lakh of rupees! And we are not joking! From July 1, […]

A Dragonfly named for 2 Northeastern Trailblazers

A Dragonfly named for 2 Northeastern Trailblazers

A new species of dragonfly has been named after two women who are agents of change in the Northeast! It’s great news as we move towards World Environment day. A North-eastern news site has reported that a  new species of dragonfly,  the ‘Brahmaputra Picktail’ –  has been christened ‘Platygomphus Benritarum’. Shantanu Joshi and Anuja Mittal […]

Insure Your Yak against Climate Change

Insure Your Yak against Climate Change

Yak owners of the country from Sikkim to Ladakh and beyond have a reason to celebrate. For the first time in Indian insurance history , the iconic Himalayan herbivores have been accorded recognition with an insurance policy. Thanks to the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) . Long suffering yak owners can now get get financial […]

Arrested for inciting killing of birds!

Arrested for inciting killing of birds!

Following a virtual social media storm, Police in Assam have arrested three officials in connection with the killing of more than 250 cattle egrets by the Tangla Municipal Board in Assam’s Udalguri district. The heart of the matter is a ‘direction’ by the Municipal Board to villagers to lop of bamboo groves that were the […]

Manipur’s 8 year old climate change activist

Manipur’s  8 year old climate change activist

Licypriya Kangujam, an eight year old young activist from Manipur is fighting against climate change.   She has been campaigning for action to tackle climate change in India for two years. Licypriya is often labeled as “Indian Greta Thunberg”. She rejects the comparison and appeals to the media to recognize her identity and story. “I […]

India completes phase out of Ozone Depleting Chemicals HCFC-141b

India completes phase out of Ozone Depleting Chemicals HCFC-141b

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (EFoCC) recently announced that India has achieved the complete phase out of ozone depleting Hydro Chloro Fluoro Carbons (HCFC). The achievement has its route to the Montreal Protocol. In order to move towards environment friendly technologies, the Ministry of EFoCC prohibited import of HCFC-141b. The order was issued […]

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