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10 Jun 2017 | News

Silently Marching for Lake Nainital

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This year’s World Environment Day, a day through which awareness for our natural environment is raised, was celebrated with much gusto as the previous years. This year’s theme was ‘Connecting People to Nature’. Across the world, people took part in plantation drives and awareness walks, in a true gesture of cooperative action to mitigate damage towards our collective…

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