The report highlights a global phenomenon: Harsh discipline, corporal punishment, and other forms of violence at school; gendered norms and expectations; and other factors, are preventing boys from achieving academically, while increasing absenteeism and dropouts.UNESCO data reveals that for every 100 women globally, only 88 men are enrolled in tertiary …
Since 2009, when a campaigning Rahul Gandhi sold Jaipur a “world-class city” dream, residents had been under the impression that such a city had almost arrived. Touristy Jaipur soon had a Metro system approved; its Jantar Mantar was inscribed on Unesco’s World Heritage Sites list; a new master plan for …
GUWAHATI, Aug 27 – An elephant calf injured in man-elephant conflict, a rhino orphaned by poachers, a full-grown tiger in a well, or a leopard in a house! These are four of the 1,600 animals comprising 150-odd species saved by the Centre of Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) that celebrates …
The Government of India is in the process of setting up a National Bureau of Water Use Efficiency. The bureau would, among other things, take necessary steps to conserve water in agricultural, industrial and domestic use. Disclosing this in a written reply to the Lok Sabha today, the Minister of …
Gadgil says it’s premature to evaluate report A working group headed by Planning Commission member K. Kasturirangan will assess the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) report and submit an action plan for its “effective implementation” to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). The Ministry has asked the group …
Pune : After reserving its comments on the report for a year, the Ministry of Environment and Forests has constituted a High Level Working Group to review the recommendations of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) report. The committee, a decision to form which was taken last month, has …
Royal Bengal tigers have been under threat from habitat destruction, illegal trade for body parts, natural calamities and angry villagers, but their cubs are now facing a new danger -- poachers. Three frail tiger cubs lying in an iron cage in a Dhaka zoo are the first live cubs to …
State delegation will soon meet Jayanthi Natarajan: Yogeshwar Much against the wishes of the Karnataka State government, Union Minister for Environment and Forests (MoEF) Jayanthi Natarajan on Tuesday announced in Parliament that final approval had been accorded to declare Kudremukh National Park as a tiger reserve. The State government is …
Second new bird to be found in Indian territory this year A group of scientists from the Zoological Survey of India have discovered a new species of bird. The bird, called Rallina, otherwise known as the ‘Great Nicobar Crake’, is found in the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve. Scientists said that …
SHIMLA, 4 AUG: The Indian Railways propose to launch a “green initiative” in several trains in the country, if the recent experiment of introducing coaches “operating on solar based power system” in the Himalayan Queen (in sns photo) ~ the famous toy-train running between Kalka and Shimla ~ becomes successful. …
Save natural resourses to next generation, suggests Suresh Heblikar The rich natural resources available in the Western Ghats belt in the State could be preserved with the help of UNESCO heritage tag to the ghats, opined environmentalist Suresh Heblikar. Addressing media persons, in the town on Thursday after participating in …
Calcutta, Aug. 1: Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered a new bird on the Great Nicobar Island, the second report of a bird species previously unknown to science in independent India. ZSI scientists S. Rajesh Kumar and C. Raghunathan spotted the species, named the Great Nicobar …
Station director of Akashavani lauds role of radio in imparting awareness among masses Former secretary to forest and environment department A N Yellappa Reddy said, including Western Ghats to UNESCO’s world heritage list would be apt, as most of the forest is already destroyed in the name of progress. He …
Rlys game for 2 of 3 proposals to minimise green damage The Hubli-Ankola railway project has cleared another hurdle with the Railways accepting two of the three recommendations of a committee comprising engineers of the Indian Institute of Science. The committee had been set up to suggest alternative routes for …
Amid debates over conservation of Western Ghats, which have been added to UNESCO’s list of iconic places, a World Heritage advisory body has recommended international monitoring to ensure that the 39 bio-diversity hot-spots in the region are properly preserved. The demand from International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) came …
Not To Implement Unesco Report Which Is Mandatory For Heritage Tag New D elhi: The government has warded off pressure from Unesco to implement the controversial Western Ghats report as a pre-condition to the ‘World Heritage’ tag. Western Ghats sites have been declared as World Heritage but without any additional …
Guwahati: Assam Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain Saturday said the government had asked experts to work out a mechanism to reduce animal deaths during floods. “Floods are a natural phenomenon. Every year, the (Kaziranga) national park gets flooded. However, we have asked people involved with wildlife preservation and protection to see …
With environmental activists criticising that the UNESCO World Heritage Site tag on 39 areas in the Western Ghats does not mean more protection to these ecologically fragile properties, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Thursday said the government was in the process of forming a “special mechanism” for these heritage sites …
The State government is in no mood to give the Western Ghats-Unesco tag matter a rest. It has raised serious contentions against the Centre for taking the matter into its own hands and renominating the Ghats in this year’s Unesco Convention at St Petersberg, Russia, ignoring the ‘stiff opposition’ by …
Bangalore: From Lena Pillars nature park in Russia to the Lakes of Ounianga in Chad (Central Africa), from Sangha Trinational in Cameroon to Chengjiang fossil site in China, the nations are celebrating this week after being honoured with the prestigious Unesco World Heritage Site (WHS) tag. But Karnataka has been …
Even as 39 protected areas across the Western Ghats made it to the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites, India is trying to separate the issue of the heritage status from the recommendations of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP), headed by Madhav Gadgil. The International Union for the …
