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Toxics Link and India International Centre (IIC) invite all to the "Quotes from the Earth", a biannual environmental film festival. The festival, held since 2004, would showcase 20 exemplary works on celluloid, by some of country’s most renowned environmental filmmakers, that portray the global struggle against climate change, hunger, unclean water, polluted urban scapes and difficult survival. Categorized under 5 subheads namely Climate change and Energy Efficiency, ... Full story

Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) invites all to a performance of MAHADEVBHAI (1892-1942 an innovative Play by WORKING TITLE, Mumbai. The play is written and directed by Ramu Ramanathan and Performed and Produced by Jaimini Pathak. Date: 10th December, 2008 Time: 10.30 am (especially for Colleges and schools) ... Full story

The University of Delhi marked 6th December, 2008 - the Global Day of (Climate) Action with speeches, plays, talks and a massive rally to spread awareness and demand action on climate change - especially from countries that can afford to, and are delaying not to by choice. The gathering saw some prominent faces from the University itself, all of whom congratulated the youth for coming forward and together in ... Full story

Just like everyone else, Dr. Palash Sen, lead singer of the famous HindRock band Euphoria, and a youth icon in himself was unaware of what the terrorists had in mind for Mumbai. He was all set to surprise the audience with what would have been the launch of India's first green song, at the Live Earth event, that was scheduled to take place in Mumbai today, but was cancelled because of ... Full story

With a population nearly as much as that of Australia, and having more automobiles on its roads than all the other three India metropolitan cities put together adding approx. 1,500 new cars to the road each day, the traffic situation in the city of Delhi is shockingly scary. The situation is fortunately been taken note of by the administration and a push to promote public transport in the city has been there since a long time now. The city has seen the launch of a state-of-the-art Metro Rail which is now the pride of Delhi and carries lakhs of commuters daily. The city also saw the launch of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system which, owing to several reasons, did not go down well with the public (and/or the media). Now, the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and the Delhi Integrated Modal Transport System (DIMTS) have launched a GPS enabled Public Information System (PIS) to not only enable the commuters waiting at the bus stand to find out the estimated time of arrival (ETA) of the bus they are waiting for, but also check the status of buses online! Full story

A few hours from now, the world will witness the next UN Climate Negotiations take place in Poznan, Poland. A few hours ago - Mumbai, India's financial capital was struck by a terrorist attack - one the most coordinated acts of terror the world has seen till date. Though on the outset, the two events have ... Full story

The Second International Scientific and Business Congress under the theme  "Localisation Program on Environmental Business and Supply Base in India"  with The International Green Business Fair will take place from 3rd to 4th February 2009 in New Delhi, India. The Second Congress has already seen support from Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC who is now a Patron and the key speaker at the Congress.... Full story

DHANAK DIN: NEHRU BAL MELA Children and Youth Festival 27th, 28th and 30th November 2008 9.30 AM to 5.30 PM TEEN MURTI BHAWAN Dhanak Din and the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) at the Teen Murti Bhawan invite all to the Nehru Bal ... Full story

Critical Mass is an event held in almost all major cities of the world, usually on the last Friday of every month, wherein a mass of cyclists ride through the streets of the city. The peak hour bicycle ride gives the subtle message to the motor-drivers, ... Full story

It took a radical fast-unto-death decision by a Professor, playing the religion-political card and much activism, that the Government of India has now accepted the fact - otherwise as crystal clear as should have been the water of the Ganges - that the holiest of holy River Ganga is polluted, the Ganga Action Plan has failed and that constructing dams upstream of the river is only making matters worse. Earlier this year, pained by the unrelenting destruction of the Ganga river, Dr G. D. Agrawal, India’s pre-eminent scientist and a legendary Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at IIT-Kanpur went on a fast-unto-death to oppose the river’s continuing desecration. His campaign was taken up by leader of the opposition party who called for stopping all dam constructions upstream of the river and the Government of India (GoI) was quick to commit itself to ensuring perennial environmental flows throughout the river while also informing Dr. Agarwal the same. Now, the GoI has gone a step ahead and declared Ganga a National River. Full story