Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
Adulterated milk being supplied by the villages to Kanpur city is found to be adulterated by harmful chemicals like formalin .Medical specialists warn that this may affect the health of the people seriously.
Radio gaga If you are curious about the history of radiology then you should not miss the site at http.//www.xray.hmc. psu.edu/rci/contents_4.html. This contains a philatelic history of radiology. Did you know that Marie Curie alone has appeared on stamps printed in Cameroon, North Korea and Dahomy (now Benin). The site …
An aids epidemic is just waiting to explode behind the locked doors of Brazil's prisons. And the situation is worsening every minute. Medical facilities are on the brink of a total breakdown, the jails face near-endemic overcrowding and the authorities are indifferent to the pathetic conditions inside these prisons. Take …
Forests, which occupies 35 to 37 percent of land in Nepal, hasn't been able to contribute much in the country's revenue, said Minister for Soil and Conservation Hridayesh Tripathy.
The Indonesia forest fires are back. And the consequences could be worse than last year. Singapore has had a foretaste. As the new blazes spread their way through East Kalimantan and Sumatra air quality briefly fell from healthy to "moderate" last month. Officials have already warned citizens to prepare for …
Haze has returned to Malaysia's eastern state of Sabah on Borneo island dur to a spate of local fires and worsened by a prolonged drought, a report said on Thursday.
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) says the report of the A K Mukherjee committee suggesting that forest land be given to industry for plantations could "sound the final death knell" for plans to afforest one-third of India's wasteland area.
The Government is not convinced with the results of a two-month experiment using Russian technology that can purportedly create "artificial cyclones" to disperse haze. However, Science, Technology and Environment Minister Datuk Law Hieng Ding said the Government was still interested in studying the technology and acquiring it if it was …
Forest fires raging since December have claimed vast tracts of world heritage-listed forests in central Thailand, officials said on Wednesday."The fires have burned some 6,000 acres of the park," said Kaew Lorpattanakasem, director of the forest fire control division of the forestry department.
After more than five fruitless months, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's scientists declared the Pathfinder spacecraft officially dead after a last-ditch attempt to communicate with the Little Rover and Lander that made history last summer. Up to the final "time to death" at 1.21 pm, they held out hope …
In a major operation, a special team of the Customs Preventive Unit (CPU) in Tuticorin seized over 12 tonnes of sandalwood, worth about Rs. 1 crore, shortly before the consignment was to be illegally exported to Singapore.
The U.S. Forest Service plan to log nearly 900 acres and build several miles of new roads in the upper part of the Sunlight Creek drainage not far from the eastern border of Yellowstone National Park is anything but routine. It goes to the heart of an escalating national debate …
The Supreme Court has held that a forest corporation is not entitled to tax exemptions on the ground that it was a local authority. The court made this ruling in the case of UP Forest Corporation, which claimed exemption under Section 10(20) of the Income-Tax Act. The Allahabad HIgh Court …
The Centre for Science and Environment has opposed moves being contemplated by the Government to hand over forest land to industry for captive plantations. The recommendations which figure in the report of the A.K. Mukherkee Committee set up in October 1997 by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to review …
The domestic paper industry may see large-scle restructuring in the next six months with mergers, sell outs and even closures of unviable units on the cards, says an industry veteran and the managing director of Sinar Mas Paper and Pulp Ltd, Mr M K Raina, the wholy-owned subsidiary of the …
A notification declaring the entire Gir forest and sanctuary as a national park has become a bone of contention between the state government and thousands of forest settlers, who will be rendered homeless once the notification becomes applicable and will have to leave the jungle which has been their home …
Forest officials blamed : Forest Department employees have held their own officials responsible for the death of beat guard Namdeo Potwar who was found dead last month, allegedly by illegal tree fellers. Potwar was posted in South Umred forest range in the forests near Khursapar. He reportedly raided the house …
New land and forest fires similar to those that blanketed the region with smog last year are breaking out in Indonesia and parts of Malaysia, the Straits Times newspaper said on Thursday.
Large-scale illegal felling of trees along Indo-Bhutan border Kachugaon, Haultogaon and Aie Valley forest divisions has been going on unabated during the last decade. Due to this unabated felling of trees a large-scale deforestation and encroachment have taken place along the Indo-Bhutan border which was once famous for its beautiful …
Signalling a dramatic shift in purchasing decisions, the third UK company in three months has announced that it will no longer buy clearcut rainforest products from British Columbia. Greenpeace issued a challenge to the government and forest industry to respond to market changes, offering to help promote BC forest products …
