Tamil Nadu is losing several hillocks to indiscriminate mining for MSand, say environmentalists, warning of an inevitable disaster in a water-starved state. Against the backdrop of the Madras high ...

The Mainamati-Lalmai hillocks on the campus premises of Comilla Universityare at risk. Some parts of the hillocks, as vast as a standard-size swimming pool, were unlawfully cut in the last month ...

Arittapatti, a cluster of seven hillocks near Melur in Madurai district which is home to rare birds including 20 species of birds of prey, raptors and a variety of flora and fauna, is likely to be ...

Why bother about hillocks – small mounds of land found in many parts of Bangladesh – when entire hills are disappearing? It's easy to succumb to frustration seeing how rapid urbanisation is levelling ...

An exchange of fire reportedly took place between Maoists and security forces in Karregutta hillocks on the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border. Unconfirmed reports suggest five Maoists were killed. Around ...

At a time when the young and middle-aged are hitting gymnasiums only to shed the extra baggage or gain ideal physique, two senior citizens of the city are trekking up the hillocks in and around the ...

Every morning when 67-year-old Dwijapada Mahanty, a retired village school headmaster wakes up, he is greeted by the chirping of hundreds of birds, the sight of wild rabbits playing in the field near ...

The Patna high court last week asked the Bihar government why it allowed private parties to extract raw material from the ‘Lomas’ and ‘Yagyawallakya’ hillocks in Nawada district, which carry great ...

In the field of nanotechnology, electrically-charged particles are frequently used as tools for surface modification. Researchers were at last able to reconcile important issues concerning the effects ...

The arrival of Sankranti season heralds a wave of excitement among the lovers of cockfights, who dominate the rural side, clandestinely operating the prohibited game in forest locations and fields ...